Discusses Irina Nikolaevna Il’ina, Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii v 1920-e gody [Civil Organizations in Russia in the 1920s], in Kritika 3, 1 (Winter 2002): 173-81; discussed by later works on “obshchestvennost'”

Discusses works on partisans, including:

Cerovic, Masha. Les Enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques
(1941–1944). L’Univers historique. Paris: Le Seuil, 2018. 366 pp. €25.00.
ISBN 978-2-0211-2167-4.

Kudriashov, S. V., ed. Partizanskoe dvizhenie v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi
voiny. Vestnik Arkhiva Prezidenta Rossii…[Read more]

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

Статья является введением к трехтомной антологии русского модернизма.

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]

Russian translation of “Russian-Soviet Modernity: None, Shared, Alternative, or Entangled?” published in NLO

NLO discussion: David-Fox’s response to the commentaries on “Russian-Soviet Modernity: None, Shared, Alternative, or Entangled?” [in Russian] by 11 anthropologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians (Timur Atnashev, Andy Byford, Alexander Etkind, Bruce Grant, Catriona Kelly, Ilya Kalinin, Kirill Kobrin, Stephen Lovell, Ale…[Read more]