Historian of Russia/Soviet Union; Cultural History of Work; History of Sexual Violence; History of Emotions
research associate (wiss. MA) @OEI/FU Berlin; associate @FSO Bremen
editor @Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
#skystorians
Alex Oberländer
On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia"
by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
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Oleg Novoselov, a historian of Soviet-era political repressions, has been arrested in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of "inciting assistance to terrorism." In Sept 2025, he was among the 1st to report that state archives will restrict researcher access to repression-era case files. 66.ru/news/inciden...
April showers bring May flowers...but also a new Kritika issue! Stay tuned if you are interested in the state of Gulag studies, the hybridity of Soviet Uzbek identities, Khrushchev's fascination with corn...
Past and Present
Kevin Rothrock
If you have not written a book review or review essay for us and would like to be on our list of potential book reviewers, then reach out to us at [email protected]. We are always looking for scholars to add to our list of reviewers!
More info can be found here:
russianreview.ku.edu/submissions
A Russian court (in Chelyabinsk) has banned the Oscar-winning film Mr. Nobody Against Putin, after prosecutors argued it had a "negative attitude toward the [the Ukraine war] and the current government," and it showed "extremist and terrorist propaganda."
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Drum roll, please, for our final editor spotlight: Stephen Bittner, who is our Special Projects Editor! He is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University, California.
Fancy a 4-year PhD position in Berlin @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social? Apply here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
#easterneurope #russia #soviet #energy
For #throwbackthursday, we are spotlighting some of our favorite articles and reviews from past Kritika editions. Today, "Liberal Values in Russia, 1996: How Washington Hijacked the Muppets" by Xenia Cherkaev takes center stage.
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#Skystorians, die lehren, aufgepasst! Unser Buch ist da und als free download hier zu haben: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...
Buchvorstellungsanfragen gerne an uns Herausgeber_innen oder hier direkt an mich oder @kreienbaumj.bsky.social.
Hi team, I have very great news.
Marisa Karyl Franz's "Near and Desired Things" is out and shipping and all those desired things. Is yours on the way? Did you order from the informative and appealing @cornellupress.bsky.social book page? The one here?: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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