The Unpredictable Past? Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Marko Robert Stech The launch of an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022 was a jolting turn of events for the majority of Western scholars studying Eastern Europe. Moreover, the dramatic unfolding of the subsequent all-out Russo-Ukrainian war helped unmask an array of fundamental deficiencies—and even outright flaws—in the dominant Western perceptions of Russia and...
Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes
Andrei Cusco Victor Taki Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum created by Alfred J. Rieber’s...
Russia’s Great War and Revolution in the Far East
David Wolff, Shinji Yokote, and Willard Sunderland This volume features new research on the critical effects of World War I and the Russian Revolution and Civil War in Northeast Asia, a broad region that has historically included the Russian Far East, Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan. Drawing together noted international specialists, the chapters break new ground, bringing unused or understudied sources into the historical record and...
CfP: Open Research Laboratory at Illinois
Deadline: November 26, 2023 The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) and the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) at the University of Illinois are pleased to announce a new call for applications to the Open Research Laboratory (ORL) program. This year’s ORL will take place January 16 – May 1, 2024. The ORL provides research support for graduate and post-graduate level research on Central and East Europe and the...
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Alexander Morrison The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people – most of them Muslims – to the Tsar’s domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a hundred years....
