Alex Oberländer

Dear #skystorians. You do not have to be interested in #queer #history to read this. #coldwar #soviet #kgb

#skystorian #history #soviet #russia #eurasia

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Pünktlich zum Frühlingsanfang ist meine Dissertation zur Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahnreise erschienen. Wie schön! Bestellen und probelesen kann man das Buch hier: www.campus.de/buecher-camp.... (1)

Exiled Political Analyst Yekaterina Schulmann Jailed 1 Year in Absentia for Breaking ‘Foreign Agent’ Law - The Moscow Times A judge in Moscow on Monday sentenced exiled political commentator Yekaterina Schulmann to one year in prison in absentia after finding her guilty of violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.

Schulmann is also facing terrorism charges due to her connection to the Russian Anti-War Committee.

The submission deadline for our "Demonstrations" Call for Proposals has been extended to March 15! You still have time to get your proposals in for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion on the history of political movements and dissent throughout Eurasian history.

An Early European View of Nomadic Central Asia - The Times Of Central Asia Rather than producing an official report or military survey, Karutz wrote in a personal and descriptive style typical of travel literature. His narrative

A 1911 travel memoir by German explorer Richard Karutz offers a rare glimpse of nomadic Kazakh and Turkmen life before imperial transformation https://ow.ly/MO5k50Yl7zS #CentralAsia #History #TravelWriting #Kazakhstan #Turkmenistan

Public Domain Image Archive Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️

What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?

(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?

Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

Shortparis, Хор ветеранов им. Ф. М. Козлова – Яблонный Сад YouTube video by Shortparis

RIP Nikolai Komiagin, 39 years old #shortparis
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Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

The call for papers for an exciting new workshop on Growing up in the Early Modern World is now live. This hybrid workshop will offer online participation and the deadline for submissions is July 15th. Please see the poster for full details.

#booksky #skystorians

#sykstorians #Soviet #academicsky #easterneurope

Умер писатель и историк Рой Медведев — Meduza Советский и российский писатель, историк и публицист Рой Медведев умер на 101-м году жизни, сообщает ТАСС со ссылкой на его родственников.

The great Soviet dissident historian Roi Mevedev has died at the age of 100. He is best known in the West for his pioneering 1971 study of Stalinism «К суду историй» (“To the Judgment of History,” published in English as “Let History Judge.” He was the brother of fellow dissident Zhores

Check out these History book reviews published in the January 2026 issue!

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#newbookalert #skystorians #academicsky

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

In NYRB, @joyneumeyer.bsky.social looks at Poland's lessons for democracy supporters hoping to unite against autocrat dirtbag nationalists. "Feminist fury" as an engine for change, if you can keep it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Correspondent (Russia) | The New York Times Company

Big opportunity here: the NYT is hiring a new Russia correspondent (an in-office position based in Berlin). www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

#skystorians #academicsky #newbookalert #history #russia

The journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is on Bluesky now. Follow here: @kritikajournal.bsky.social
#academicsky #skystorians

📝 Call for Proposals:
“Demonstrations”: Rituals of Political Belonging, Support, and Dissent in Eurasia from the Medieval Period to 2000

For more information, visit kritika.georgetown.edu/announcement...

#russianhistory #historians #callforpapers #conferenceproposals #cfp

I just stumbled across a treasure of #Soviet diafilms online. They were often used for teaching in schools and are great material for teaching #history today. #skystorians
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Fleeing the front and wanted in Russia, deserters face deportation as Germany ‘churns out’ asylum rejections — Meduza Georgy Avaliani, a 47-year-old father of three, was mobilized into the Russian army in the fall of 2022. He fled the front line as soon as he was deployed, only to be arrested, held in a “torture…

Georgy Avaliani was mobilized into the Russian army, survived a “torture basement,” and escaped abroad. Now, he’s wanted in Russia and Germany has rejected his family’s asylum application. According to Mediazona, his case is hardly unique. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#skystorians

Sometimes I happen to invent new and really good words/terms. My latest (in german): Cis-Dudismus. In english: cis-dudism. #academicchatter #gender #masculinity

My interview in Die Zeit coming out shortly. Thanks to them for allowing me this mild criticism of survey data in the German mainstream press.

Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934∗ Abstract. It is a historiographical convention to view interwar debates over the protection of vulnerable populations through the prism of ‘minority rights

Happy to share my new Past & Present article: “Protecting Soviet Muslims: Muhajir Activism and the Minority Treaties, 1917–1934.” OA: academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Great #cfp is out: "I've got the power": New perspectives on gender and power in the GDR
In Greifswald in March 2026: salon21.univie.ac.at?p=84096

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
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How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? New book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry looks across three centuries of global history for clues to how economic sanctions and warfare worked and why their effects often came as a surprise.
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