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Judging by my social media feed, several folks with an interest in Russian history have been asking themselves “Hmm, I wonder what happened in Russia during the 1918 global influenza pandemic?�...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2020/03/a-snapshot-of-the-1918-global-influenza-pandemic-in-russia/

My posts on the dead cheese master may have made one thing about me as a researcher very clear: whenever I come across a list—of people, of things, of places—I am drawn to copy it. Last summe...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/07/lists/

Many thanks to Josh for getting back with such wide-ranging elaborations on my, David’s, and John Paul’s original posts. In the interest of keeping things going, let me take up just one of Jo...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/07/more-on-empire-pro-and-contra/

OK, after a couple of rambles, this one will be a shorter post, and I’ll frame it around a question for all the panelists and for the readers of this blog. David McDonald remarks in his final p...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/07/how-strong-was-the-russian-state-in-1914/

One of the pleasures of a forum like this is that an author can see how his or her work is read and used by colleagues in “real time.” John Paul Newman’s comments about mobilization and ide...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/07/mobilization-motivation-and-the-staatsidee/

I too want to begin with more than formulaic thanks to Alison, John Paul, David, and Willard. Alison did a wonderful job of soliciting commentators for this conversation, and (shameless plug #1!)...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/07/imperial-apocalypse-response-regarding-decolonization/

Josh Sanborn’s Imperial Apocalypse is a remarkable book. With so much written about World War I, including the relatively less studied Russian fronts of the war, it’s easy to lull yourself in...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/07/imperial-apocalypse-part-iii/

In deference to emerging tradition on this blog, let me begin by thanking Alison Smith for her invitation to participate in this conversation about Josh Sanborn’s important new book on Russia�...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/06/imperial-apocalypse-part-ii/

Many thanks for inviting me to participate in this blog discussion. I am delighted to participate in the lively scholarly discussion that Sanborn’s work has already sparked. I should make some ...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2015/06/imperial-apocalypse/

In this post, I’m hoping to use the Russian History Blog platform to explore a different form of scholarly communication – the article review. Articles are of course reviewed all the time, bu...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2014/07/article-review-william-g-rosenberg-reading-soldiers-moods-russian-military-censorship-and-the-configuration-of-feeling-in-world-war-i-american-historical-review-119-no/