A study of the ideological and transnational context of informatics and cybernetics in the late Soviet Union, focusing on the leading Soviet computer scientist Andrei Ershov.

A study of the relationship between pastoral poetry and urban politics in eighteenth-century New York City.

Critical review essay on Slezkine’s “House of Government,” its millenarian thesis, and the emergent genre of academic blockbuster to which it belongs.

This review essay focuses on the new monograph by S. A. Smith Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017). As a leading expert in the social history of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Smith provides a comprehensive political, social, and cultural narrative of one of the central events in the…[Read more]

Three major factions in the Russian Civil War in the Far East engaged in nationalist mobilization coming up with different rhetorical tropes and images in the 1920-1922 period. The ultra-royalist faction led by Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs, which in 1922 controlled the Provisional Priamur Government in Vladivostok, portrayed the Romanovs as…[Read more]

This article argues that the framework of the revolutionary life cycle can become a richly interpretive lens for Russian/Soviet historians of the entire late imperial and Soviet periods. The first section critically reviews the history of the approach and its recent revival in the field of comparative revolutions, focusing on the frequently flawed…[Read more]