Coming soon @egasmb.bsky.social www.routledge.com/From-Empire-...

My book Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union has just been released in paperback at an affordable price. The digital edition is available open access.

A concise yet remarkably insightful review of my book by Alexander Semyonov, whose work on the State Duma and the Russian Empire has deeply informed my research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A great review essay by Stephen Lovell discussing my book in a wider context is part of the latest issue of Kritika: muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

My review of Katie L. Stewart’s Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics is out now on H-Net Reviews www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Feeling honored! The book is in open access: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

If the eagles had intervened as depicted by Jean Bondol and Nicolas Bataille in their Apocalypse Tapestry (1377–1382) #skystorians #tolkien #art

The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s,” to be held on June 17, 2025, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

„Kein Schritt nach Rechts“ will am 15.2. unter dem Motto „Gemeinsam gegen Rechts“ ein Zeichen gegen den Rechtsruck in der Gesellschaft setzen keinschrittnachrechts.de/archive/1284

Today, on January 29, 2025, the German Bundestag had a rightwing populist/extremist majority for the first time since 1945.

The border has border crossed. CDU officially joins rightwing populists.

Eil-Appell unterzeichnen: Keine Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD! CDU-Chef Merz will mit Stimmen der AfD seine menschenfeindliche Politik vorantreiben – sag Nein zu diesem Tabubruch! aktion.campact.de/s/zusammenar...

More information on our new project “Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991” at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana www.inz.si/en/technocra...

You are invited to submit paper proposals for the workshop "Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s," which will take place on June 17, 2025, at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. More info at: www.inz.si/sl/Dogodki/R...

The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s,” to be held on June 17, 2025, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. www.inz.si/en/technocra...

The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social sets a great example with its “right to disconnect” rule, encouraging work within normal hours and advising against sending emails to colleagues outside working hours, which I really value.

Sieht aus, als müsste Merz einen Einbürgerungstest machen und das Grundgesetz lesen. Art 16. (1) Die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit darf nicht entzogen werden.

The Ladenburg Research Network “The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations” invites submissions for the Workshop “The Aggressor in Museum” to take place at the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Thessaloniki on October 9–10, 2025.

Inlands with our chapter on Mongolia in the Soviet empire is out now: cup.columbia.edu/book/inlands...

The Japanese translation of The Rise and Fall of Russia's Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922: Nationalisms, Imperialisms, and Regionalisms in and after the Russian Empire is coming soon.

Launching a new research project titled Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991 at the @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social soon. More details, including those on workshops, will follow.

Kyonghee Lee 李京憙 reconstructs a pivotal moment in the history of South Korea: The formation of political parties shortly after Park Chung-Hee came to power, 1961-63 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

My review of Frank Gerits, The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 and Alessandro Iandolo, Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968 ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/...

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Participating in two panels at @aseees.bsky.social convention in Boston: Buddhists, Marxists, and Nationalists: Buryat-Mongol Intellectuals in History (November 23, 10:00 to 11:45) and The Revolution of 1905 and Its Aftermath in the Borderlands of the Russian Empire (November 24, 12:00 to 13:45)

Our chapter A “Live Laboratory” of Noncapitalist Development: Positioning Mongolia in the Informal Soviet Empire, 1919–1940 is coming soon as part of the volume Inlands: Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World

Thank you to my friend @ivansablin.bsky.social for putting together the "Workshop Playing the Aggressor: Historical Conquest, Colonization, and Resistance in Video Games" www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/the-aggre...