It’s here—all 800 pages of it! The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy draws on contributions from 45 established and emerging academics to explore the Ottoman Empire and its legacies (from the 18th to the early 21st century). www.bloomsbury.com/us/ib-tauris...

Hint: You don't have to be here to get the discount... you can head to the #ASEEES25 @cornellupress.bsky.social virtual booth and use 09EXP40 for 40% off and free domestic shipping. No virtual socks or hats though, unfortunately... www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/aseees-2025-...

***FREE TO READ ALERT*** For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery. crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028

Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery. crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028

Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

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

The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” in the October 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with the introductory essay by Mark Bassin, Dmitrii Dorogov, and Mikhail Suslov. doi.org/10.1111/russ...

What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s? Check out my latest article to find out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

A terrific research fellowship in Yerevan. Write, work in the archives and libraries, meet friendly and smart colleagues --what more can we ask? yerevancenter.org/ycie-researc...

RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.

What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s? Check out my latest article to find out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (arisc.org) is hosting this valuable event on Zoom on Sept 18 for prospective students seeking graduate training in the US.

Scholars, teachers, and students: Check out our Living Syllabus Collection! russianreview.ku.edu/livingsyllabus These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.

The AHA's proverbially defeatist rhetoric strikes again: "Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is."

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

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.

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Very much looking forward to reading this when it's out in November! A must for folks interested in Russian peasants, social transformations, and WW I histories. www.mqup.ca/peasants----...

Note to researchers coming to work for the first time at the National Archives of Armenia: the building is under renovation and the front entrance is closed. Get in touch if you'd like pics of how to get inside through the back courtyard.

Tomorrow morning live in #Yerevan!

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