I had this happen to me too. The copyeditor kept returning the piece with egregious errors inserted. Either it was AI or whoever was copyediting was being paid piece rates. The copyediting process dragged out over weeks, so I fail to see how this is more "efficient."

My department is crowdfunding today to support its Graduate Excellence Fund. We need another $15,000 CAD before the fund can start paying out scholarships. If you are McGill alumni, or just want to support history graduate students, please consider donating! crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/GE...

A huge loss for our field.

I would like to know what's up with the increasing number of emails I receive from publicity firms offering to help me (for a fee) publicize my book reviews or republish them in other journals. That isn't, umm, how book reviews work. Is this malfunctioning AI?

It's a new year, and I'm doing some housekeeping for @russianreview.bsky.social as its Hist/SocSci book review editor. If you would like to review for us, please let us know by filling out this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... This will help me update our reviewer list! Thanks!

Help a book review editor out! Who is working on post-Soviet and contemporary Russian media (news, internet, digital media, etc.) who might be interested in reviewing books for @russianreview.bsky.social? Hoping to update my list because right now it is pretty small.

The ruble is collapsing again and I don't have the energy to write another op-ed about the long history of ruble collapses, so here is the last one. And this probably won't be the last time, either. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022...

a very interesting chapter by @kristyironside.bsky.social and more to discover! doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Soviet Econ historians, is there a source I can cite on how the Komsomol ended up, by the late Soviet period, being extremely entrepreneurial and market-savvy? I feel like this is commonly known, but I can't think of a source that outright says this.

I'm giving a talk on my McDonald's in Russia book project today at the Harriman Institute. Hope to see some of you there! harriman.columbia.edu/event/mcdona...

My review essay on Ekaterina Pravilova's excellent The Ruble: A Political History, as well as on contemporary ruble politics, is out in the newest issue of Current History. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...