As this week closes, I wanted to highlight that seems somewhat obvious to those with even a casual interest in the history of Russian/Soviet space activities, its incredibly rich visual record. T...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2013/12/russian-space-history-imagery/
I am very excited to kick off the seventh conversation on the Russian History blog on the topic of Soviet/Russian space history. Instead of the usual focus on one monograph, we are using a number...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2013/12/russian-space-history-a-blog-conversation/
A few weeks ago, on March 27, I was at a reception at the Harriman Institute (for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies) at Columbia University for the opening of a new exhibit entitled...
The Center for Medieval Studies has a very visible presence at Fordham University where I teach. In the history department alone, medievalist faculty and graduate students maintain a healthy and ...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2012/03/policing-sexuality-in-medieval-russia/
For my first post for the blog, I decided to draw from a forthcoming project of mine on the history of Soviet science and technology as it intersected through the apparatus of repression. What fo...
https://russianhistoryblog.org/2011/03/the-sharashka-phenomenon/