Historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Reader (Associate Professor) in Modern European History,
Cardiff University.
Currently writing an intellectual history of inter-war Soviet state violence.
James Ryan
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One of the victims, a seven-year-old boy, was blind and had special needs. Shot in the head and face.
James Ryan
I wrote a blog post for History on my research into humanitarianism in early Soviet Russia. Rather than abandoning humanitarian norms during the civil war, the Bolsheviks adapted and worked within them.
Part of the research was funded by a History Research Bursary, which is an excellent scheme.
On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia"
by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM
Today, Vladimir Putin returned the name of Felix Dzerzhinsky to the FSB Academy, for his “outstanding contribution to ensuring state security.” Dzerzhinsky was the first head of Bolshevik’s secret police in 1918-1926 and the architect of the Red Terror
