#OTD 1917 the 'October' Revolution took place in Russia Our archives include significant primary sources on the relationship between Britain and Russia in the decade following the 1917 revolutions 650+ documents have been digitised and are freely available online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

SOON! Great news to mark the anniversary of a turning point in Russian history: The proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium “Boundaries of the Political in Russia” are about to be published by Slavica The book itself about crossing boundaries.

📣 Publication alert! "Writing Conceptual Histories" ed. by Jani Marjanen and Pasi Ihalainen offers a great sample of theories, methods, and case studies. It also demonstrates the many ways to write conceptual histories and encourages scholars to experiment with new approaches! bit.ly/wch_25

Battles for history @efdavies.bsky.social against the new imperial history. @abimperio.bsky.social against politisation of the field. In the thread. (The publications are in German and behind paywall, so I'm posting links to authorised English translations) 1/3

With just over a week to go until the start of #HCG2025, we are pleased to share that the final programme is now available online! We look forward to insightful discussions, new connections, and fresh perspectives – see you soon in Bologna! 📣 eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...

An excerpt from the book "The Name of Discord" has been published online. You can read about how the mosaic of civil wars ultimately coalesced into one continuous #RussianCivilWar. I co-wrote this section of the book with Dmitry Ivanov. gorky.media/fragments/gr...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

In Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO Special Issue Resources in Use Beiträge von Aleksandr Korobeinikov, @immorebitschek.bsky.social‬‬‬, Lutz Häfner und Friedrich Asschenfeldt sowie Rezensionen aktueller Forschungsliteratur#OpenAccess biblioscout.net/journal/jgo/...

I was today years old when I learned that in German there’s an expression "08/15" (null-acht-fünfzehn) meaning "ordinary, mediocre, nothing special" And it comes from the name of a standard German #WWI machine gun. Alright, makes sense

As they say, now it's official Two-year research project at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Soon. New book The book "The Name of Discord: The Political Use of the Term "Civil War" (1917-1918)" will soon be published by the Novoe Literturnoe Obozrenie. I was one of the editors of the collective monograph and wrote several chapters for it. www.nlobooks.ru/books/intell...

New book Russian translation of memoirs by Central Powers POWs who drawn into #RussianCivilWar in Central Asia. eupress.ru/books/index/...

New details about the monarchist extremists who tried to assassinate Russian liberal leader Pavel Milyukov and killed politician Vladimir Nabokov while he defended him. www.svoboda.org/a/dobavochno...

Hogging the blanckets of #RussianRevolution Milyukov pulls toward “strengthening power” with whip and bayonet, Kerensky toward “strengthening freedom and revolution” outside, Lenin toward “deepening the revolution” everywhere. And the sweet German just offers his hand and heart.

2 years of deciphering monstrous handwriting, 4 years of waiting and finally published! My edition of Maksimilian Filonenko’s 1918 diary: politics, daily life, and a touch of love from a adventurer in the chaos of the Civil War. www.academia.edu/143613616/ #RussianCivilWar

Book in open access. Andrey Ganin on the officers of the General Staff during the years of #RussianRevolution and #RussianCivilWar ganin-hist.ru/books/kadryi...

New book in open access! FELIX COWAN "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918" www.jstor.org/stable/10.31...

👇 The Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining” is offering two full-time (100% / 40 hours per week) positions as Head of a Junior Research Group From 2026 until 31.12.2031. We aim to turn this into a permanent position. jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/0...

#RussianRevolution in 5 Seconds: 1. Kornilov, Kerensky, Lenin vs. Nicholas II 2. Kerensky, Lenin vs. Kornilov 3. Lenin vs. Kerensky 4. ??? vs. Lenin History of the Russian State (Petrogradskiy golos. 1917. 17 December)

From Russian trench newspaper of #WWI and #RussianRevolution. Top: "A train with reinforcements going to the front" Bottom: "An empty train going to the rear" (newspaper "Ne Pravda" (Not the Truth), 1917) archive.org/details/kava...

Did a small excursion around Lenin-related spots near @britishmuseum.bsky.social #RussianRevolution telegra.ph/Lenins-Place... maps.app.goo.gl/DK4aM7MEvH7Z...

New book in @princetonupress.bsky.social "The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire" by Mustafa Aksakal #WWI press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New book! Open access! "The Red Cross Facing the Red Star" on the relationship between communism and global humanitarianism. 1/3 of the articles on #RussianCivilWar. www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...

Dear Imperial War Musesum, Where did you find this conspiracy? "The Tsar was forced to abdicate by his own generals." This is not serious for such a great museum. #RussinRevolution #WWI

Marie-Josée Lavallée explains how the split in the left over how to fight the Austrofascists helped the latter consolidate their hold on power in interwar Austria #iccees2025

Aaron Retish, @immorebitschek.bsky.social , Matthew Rendle, Rhiannon Dowling, Dina Moyal and Juliette Cadiot discuss Soviet law and justice #iccees2025

A wonderful section by @profaks.bsky.social, Jennifer Keating and Sarah Badcock on internal migration and belonging in the late Russian Empire: peasants going to Gatchina, nomadic peoples moving around Central Asia and the beggers whose work was constantly on the move. #iccees2025

I can tell you that Britain makes you keep further left than you're used to.

@georgegilbert.bsky.social talks about the research he is finishing: about the cult of left and right political martyrs in the late Russian Empire. @benphillips1989.bsky.social #iccees2025

Our #iccees2025 section with @pwhitewood.bsky.social had a great audience: @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social, Alexander Morrison, Matt Rendle, Evgeny Sergeev, Yoshiro Ikeda, Francis King, @opolianichev.bsky.social and also Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (who is not in the frame) Interesting comments and questions!

@sdanisimova.bsky.social searches for the origin of the word intervention @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social #iccees2025

How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London #iccees2025

And what kind of souvenirs do you bring from Montenegro? (Collection "Montenegro in the #WWI") @tamarascheer.bsky.social

SOON from Oxford University Press Pieter M. Judson and Tara Zahra "The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I never stop using it

In Russian military training centres, cadets study a bootleg translation of Bruce Gudmundsson book on #WWI stormtrooper tactics. Cutting-edge warfare, circa 1917 (From a 2025 book that seriously recommends studying 100-year-old tactics)

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (@aseees.bsky.social) declared an undesirable organization by the Russian authorities meduza.io/news/2025/06...

Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...

The programme for the 4th international Military Welfare History Network conference (9-11 July) is now live. Full details can be found at militarywelfarehistory.com/2025-confere.... Book your place now by emailing the organisers #milwelfhist

In his new book, Dan Edelstein traces the idea of “revolution” back to Fortuna’s wheel — an ancient symbol of fate turning endlessly, raising the lowly and toppling the mighty. “Revolutio” once meant not agency, but the inescapable cycle of rise and fall. @princetonupress.bsky.social

New photo archive: Over 3,300 digitized glass negatives of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (#WWI) from the Ukrainian Museum & Library in Stamford, plus ~650 more from UVAN collections. Rich metadata, grouped by year, region, and photographer. 🔗 www.legionukrainiansichriflemen.com

NEW BOOK! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Alistair S. Wright. Revolution and Civil War in North Russia: Karelia and the Murmansk Region, 1917–1920. London: Bloomsbury, 2025 www.bloomsbury.com/us/revolutio... #RussianCivilWar

Soon! "The Peasants’ War: Russia’s Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" by Colleen M. Moore www.mqup.ca/peasants----...

Medinsky's post on 11 May: "How difficult it is to prepare for a lecture on the so-called Russo-Japanese War..." It seems that before the negotiations, he was getting ready to explain why Russia gave up half of Sakhalin

And now Pravda yandex.ru/archive/cata...

New book on the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921 Щетинов Ю.А. Кронштадтское восстание. Март 1921 года. Итоги и перспективы изучения - М.: РОССПЭН, 2025. - 455 с. rosspen.su/index.php?ro... #russianrevolution

Meanwhile, historical books in Russia

New book. Open access! A Study by a Scholar of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on Ukrainian Identity in #WWI Олександр Реєнт. Вікно можливостей: Україна у пошуках суб’єктності та Соборності у роки Першої світової війни. К.: Інститут історії України НАН України, 2024

NEW BOOK I heard Stefan Rindlisbacher's presentations. He works very deeply with sources and analyses in detail the discussions at the central and regional level @cornellupress.bsky.social

My congratulations to @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and @sdanisimova.bsky.social Very interesting contribution to this monumental encyclopedia of #WWI encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/russ...