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Fascinating. And heart breaking the state budget crisis has forced the district to close the Nikolaevsk School, part of the Russian Old Believer community and history

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Continuing with the theme of religion, we have another excellent new post up on the website. Victoria Peretitskaya shares her research on the Doukhobors' attempts to return to the Soviet Union from Canada in the 1920s www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/migrati...

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We are heading to Alaska with our latest post. Many thanks to Aglaia Gulakova for sharing her fascinating research on the history of Old Believers’ migration and resettlement www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/in-purs...

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We have a brilliant new post up on the website by Leora Eisenberg on Uzbek and Kazakh pop music in the Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/singing...

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We have a new post up on the website from Kristo Nurmis exploring the wartime activities of Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/our-rea...

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We have more Baltic-focused posts for you courtesy of the @balticbasees.bsky.social. Check out Hanna Maria Aunin's exploration of changing representations of Soviet Deportations in Estonian cinema www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/overloo...

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Our series in @peripheralhist.bsky.social continues with Rasa Kamarauskaitė's fascinating interview with Rebeka Põldsam (@rebeltulivits.bsky.social) on LGBT studies in Estonia and the normalisation of queerness in the country.

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In our latest post, you can learn more about the development of LGBT studies and the normalisation of queerness in Estonia. Check out Rasa Kamarauskaitė's (@balticbasees.bsky.social) interview with Estonian sexualities scholar Rebeka Põldsam www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...

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There's still two days left to submit your abstracts for the 'Migration, Mobilities and Borders in Eurasia' workshop at the University of Manchester on 5th March. Feel free to DM with any questions!

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We have a new post up from Kateryna Budz on the Christmas celebrations of the underground Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church throughout the Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-banne...

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On 5 March, we will host an interdisciplinary workshop 'Migration, Mobilities, and Borders in Eurasia' at Manchester. We invite paper proposals on any aspect of migration & borders in Eurasia in historical or contemporary perspective. Deadline 31 January & CfP here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ETY6...

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Happy New Year! Our first post for 2025 is an author interview with @dacretu.bsky.social, whose wonderful book 'Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal' was published last month. www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/foreign...

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Check out Mann Loper's post on national education in interwar Estonia, focusing on the history school curriculum, now up at Peripheral Histories. Here you will also find the rest of our Baltic States series. Thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more in the near future.

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Our guest-edited Baltic series draws to a close with Mann Loper's fascinating post on the establishment of national education and the development of the history school curriculum in interwar Estonia: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/nationa...

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“Stories about non-normative sexualities in Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary are more represented in English-speaking academia, while the situation in the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine is lesser known. I think these countries are often perceived as versions of Russian history.”

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Our Baltic series continues with a fascinating new post by Rosario Napolitano on the development of the field of Baltic Studies in interwar Italy: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/giacomo...

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Our second post in the Baltic series is an interview with sexualities scholar Rasa Navickaitė on LGBT studies in Lithuania www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...

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First up in our new Baltic series we have John Freeman's post on attempts to de-peripheralize the early modern Eastern Baltic through Atlantic colonisation www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/breakin...

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Over the next few weeks, we will have a new series of posts on the website curated by the @basees.bsky.social Study Group on the Baltic States. We will share each post as its published and the whole series will eventually be grouped here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/baltic

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This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below.

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Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...

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Our series highlighting archive & library collections relaunched last month and we will post the latest instalments in this thread. First, we spoke to Ivanna Cherchovych of REESOURCES - an innovative platform useful for anybody teaching European history www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/reesour...

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We are looking forward to publishing our interview with the editors of this excellent (and open access) volume in the coming months

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I spoke to two wonderful archivists at the Open Society Archives about their vast and varied (and to a large extent digitized) sources for @peripheralhist.bsky.social - take a look! I really recommend the archive for anyone working on post war Central/ Eastern/ Sotheastern Europe :)

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We have a new post up today from our series on archives & digital collections. For this instalment, @priskakomaromi.bsky.social spoke with archivists at the Open Society Archives in Budapest about their vast holdings & digital sources www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/open-so...

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We have written a short article about the main themes of our book for all my international colleagues who are interested in my research: openjournals.ugent.be/snm/article/...

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Highly recommend giving @peripheralhist.bsky.social a follow, they've got all sorts of good content and also once very kindly let me open a blog post with a Chekhov quote.

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Hello new followers! For those who don't know us, we are a co-edited digital history project publishing research on Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In this thread, we will share some recent posts from our website in order to show what we do and the broader goals of our project ↓

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