Kritika-Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

Papers
(The TQCC of Kritika-Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Darwinism and the Human-Animal Boundary in the Soviet Union3
"The Duty of Perfect Obedience": The Laws of Subjecthood in Tsarist Russia3
The Myth of Catherine the Great and the Horse: A Critical Review of the Historiography2
Red Zangezur: Class, Race, and the End of the Armenian Civil War2
Poor Images, Repaired Stories: In Defense of Imagistic History and Ethnography2
Gulag Studies amid Rising Political Repression and War2
The Embodiment of Orthodox Christianity in Central Asia: Sacred Objects and Orthodox Nationalism in Revolutionary Turkestan2
The Mortality of Released Prisoners and the Scale of Soviet Penal Mortality, 1939–451
Welcome, Not Welcome: The North Caucasian Diaspora's Attempted Return to Russia since the 1960s1
Views from Our Terraces1
"A Sixth Part of the World": The Career of a Spatial Metaphor in Russia and the Soviet Union (1837–2021)1
How Was Russia Governed Locally? Teachers' Complaints and Institutional Disarray in the Kazan Region, 1895–19081
Counting the Gulag's Dead and Dying1
Contributors to This Issue1
Living Laboratories: Rethinking—and Transcending?—Center and Periphery1
Money, Love, and Friendship in the Late Imperial Artistic World1
Erratum1
Japanese Modernity from the Siberian Silo1
AIDS/HIV and Homophobia in the USSR, 1983–901
The Cultural and Political Imaginary of Cybernetic Socialism1
The Mug Shot and the Close-Up: Identification and Visual Pedagogy in Secret Police Film1
Nationality as Choice of Path: Iakov Shul´gin, Dmitrii Pikhno, and the Russian-Ukrainian Crossroads1
Interview with Eve Levin1
Dissecting Post-Soviet Memory Politics1
Seeing a Life through the Eyes of the Police1
"One Does Not Talk about It, but It Is There": Unfolding Western–Soviet Queer Kinship in the Late Soviet Union1
Game Over? Russia’s Conquest of Central Asia Reconsidered1
Consumerism versus Neoliberalism: The Soviet Consumer Rights Movement, the Rule of Law, and the Attempts to Reform Socialism in the Late 1980s1
Katerina Clark's Ecosystem0
What Is Socialist Globalization Good For?0
The Castrates, the Specter of Pugachev, and Religious Policy under Nicholas I0
Interview with Carolyn J. Pouncy0
Between Soviet and Ethnic: Cultural Policies and National Identity Building in Soviet Belarus under Petr Masherau, 1965–800
Remembering Jan Plamper0
David Joravsky (1925–2020)0
The Bremen Archive0
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Bringing Theology Back In: The Russian Orthodox Church, the State, and the West in Imperial Russia0
The Making of Minorities on Europe's Periphery0
Moving Towns: Military Camps in the Polish-Lithuanian Southern Borderlands, 1479–15640
A Time of "Normalization" and Change: Research on Brezhnev's Rule and Domestic Policies0
Gulag Medical Releases: A Response to Stephen G. Wheatcroft0
From Ethnocide to Expiation: Jewish Reflections on Ukrainian Nationalism in Late Soviet Labor Camps0
The USSR’s “Atheist-in-Chief” and the Public Space in the Soviet 1960s0
State Property Belongs to All and Everybody: A History of Commons in the USSR (and Beyond)0
Childhood and Youth in the Soviet Union under Stalin0
To Russia with Plutarch, or the Usefulness, Sometimes, of Going Closer In0
Using the Past to Save the Present: Soviet Transgender History and Its Implications for Present-Day Trans Rights in Russia0
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The Black Sea Coast as a Landscape of Cold War Intelligence0
I See Your Singular Pasts and Raise You Interpretive Frameworks: Authorial Self as Historical Ethnography's Method0
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Marxists in a Declining Empire0
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Whose War Was It, Anyway? Writing Histories of the Soviet Union in World War II0
The History Curriculum in Public Schools as a Component of the Official Historical Narrative in Modern Russia0
The "Soviet South" in the Brezhnev Era0
Cybernetics and Surveillance: The Secret Police Enter the Computer Age0
The Will to Labor: A Conceptual History of the Will in the Stakhanovite Movement and Stalinist Ideology0
The Meaning of Consciousness in the Early Soviet Union: Thoughts, Feelings, Bodies0
The Museum-Archive of the Transitional Period: The Curation of Ukrainian Studies in Nazi-Occupied Kyiv and Its Postwar Legacy0
Alexander III as Conservative Modernizer0
Julia Obertreis (1969–2023)0
How Did Lamaites Become Buddhists? Buddhist Modernism in Late Imperial Russia0
Weaponizing Self-Determination in 1918: Crimea as "German Riviera" and Tatar National State0
Thinking beyond the Research Article and Book Review0
Central Asia in the Imperial Russian Mind0
Reading Practices and the Uses of Print in Russian History0
Collapse from Inside-Out or Outside-In?0
Engineering Soviet Society with Passports0
"By and for Disabled Veterans": An Alternative History of Russia's Great War and Revolution0
Fragmentation and Integration in an Economic Key0
Hiding in Plain Sight: Russia in World History0
The Legacy of the Cold War: Post-Colonial Identity among Former Russophone Residents of Harbin0
Officious Aliens: Tatars' Involvement in the Central Asian Revolution, 1919–210
The Pesky Authorial Self: Explorations in the Land of Historical Production0
Philippa Hetherington (1984–2022)0
The Wedding Ritual and Court Ceremonies as "Scenarios of Power" in Eighteenth-Century Russian Political Culture0
"A Little Help Is Better Than a Lot of Pity"0
All Roads Lead to the Abyss: Global Pressures, Fateful Reforms, and Disillusionment in the Final Years of the Soviet Union0
Lenin, the Anarchist? A Constructive Misinterpretation0
Nicholas I versus Alexander I: Russia in the First Half of the 19th Century0
Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Way Things Looked from Kyiv0
State Power, Social Life, and Russian Nobles in the 18th Century0
Soviet Chronopolitics: Beyond "Revolutionary Rupture" and "Totalitarian Stasis"0
The New Scholarship on the Brezhnev Era0
The Watchmaker: Entangled Histories of Eurasia's 19th Century Viewed through the Prism of a Traveler's Odyssey0
About the Many Russias and the Many Europes in Early Modern Times0
Archival Insights and the Secret Police0
The Thorny Road to a Handshake: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project as a Challenge to the US and Soviet Space Programs0
Unfinished Business: Stalinist Anti-Jewish Investigations before and after the Death of Stalin0
North Caucasian Confederal Nationalism and the Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict, 1989–940
City Margins Rediscovered: The Governance of Urban Outskirts in Late 19thand Early 20th-Century Russian Poland0
Erratum0
Placing Capitalism at the Service of Socialism: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko's Unpublished "Notes on America"0
Contributors to This Issue0
Histories of the Soviet Second World War: A Kaleidoscopic View0
The Tsar’s Proxy Civilizers: German Colonists and Scottish and Swiss Missionaries in the Nineteenth-Century Caucasus0
Snapshots in Time: Identity Formation, Repression, and State-Building in the Soviet 1930s from Ukraine to the Far East0
Millions of Living Dead: Fugitives, the Polish Border, and 18th-Century Russian Society0
The Historiography of Modern Central Asia Today0
Police Talk: The Culture and Practices of the Secret Police in the Soviet Bloc0
An Anxious Unraveling: Perestroika and the Fracturing of the Soviet People0
Royal Illness, Professionalized Loyalty: The Wife of Alexander II under Count Aleksandr Adlerberg's Care0
New Directions in the Study of Modern Central Asian History0
Thinking beyond Soviet Teleologies: Perspectives for the Study of Central Asia0
Ukraine in the Long Eighteenth Century: Historiographical Journeys from the Terra Incognita to a Postcolonial Future0
Émigré Return and Russian National Identity: The National Labor Alliance Confronts Post-Soviet Russia0
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Sex and Sexuality in Late Imperial Russia0
In Search of the Workers’ Paradise0
Not a Threat? The Russian Elites' Disregard for the "Islamist Danger" in the North Caucasus in the 1990s0
The Ethical Imperatives Deriving from War: Decolonization Begins at Home0
Scholarship and Myth in the Shaping of East Slavic Premodernity0
E. H. Carr and the Soviet Nationalities0
Heritage Modernism: Museums and Craft Revival in Early Soviet Tashkent0
The Gulag's "Dead Souls": Mortality of Individuals Released from the Camps, 1930–550
Central Asia: Ever More Central?0
“Find a Person” or “Find Oneself”? Searching for War-Torn Kin and Identity among the Soviet Narod0
Homo Sovieticus Washed Ashore: A Research Agenda for Studying the Second Wave of the Russian Emigration0
The Social and Intellectual Roots of Loren Graham0
Back to the Other Shore: The Prerevolutionary Russian Emigration0
Introducing History Ex Silo0
Russia and the United States—Comparative vs. Connected History?0
Contributors to This Issue0
Borders and Borderlands0
Land Redemption in Muscovy during the Reign of Ivan IV0
How Do You Say "Entangled and Transnational Histories" in Arabic?0
Patriotism and Culture during World War I0
"Thy Name Is as Ointment Put Forth": The Image of St. Vladimir Sviatoslavich in Late 17th-Century Ukraine0
Close Quarters: Dealing with Difference in the (Post-)Soviet Realm0
A Bittersweet Silver Jubilee0
The Russian Civil War after 100 Years: Within and Beyond the Historiographical Front Lines0
The Bolsheviks and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran (1920–21): Moscow's Politics and the Ambitions of Regional and Local Political Actors0
Soviet Internationalism in Industrial Recruitment: Training Kazakh and Belarusian Workers in Russia and Ukraine, 1944–590
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (1941–2023)0
The Cold War as a Competition of Ideology, Propaganda, and Cultural Diplomacy0
On the Cusp of Change? Thoughts on the Roundtable about the Brezhnev Years0
Telling Russian History through Things0
"A Past Charged with the Time of the Now": How Do Radical Movements Sustain a Sense of Past?0
Conspiracies Large and Small: New Research on Secrecy and the Shadow Economy in the Soviet Union0
Connections between 18th-Century Russian and European Culture0
Everyday Life, Work, and Survival on the Soviet Home Front in World War II0
To the Reckless, the Spoils: On the Durability of Revolutionary Regimes0
Re-Visions of the Leader: Lenin Biopics in the Post-Stalin Era0
A Field in Crisis: Thoughts on Causes and Solutions0
State Universities and the Funding Crisis0
Rethinking the Colonial Past0
Beyond the Ideal: Writing New Embodied Histories of Soviet Socialism0
Secularization and Lived Religiosity à la Russe0
Sabchota Sakartvelo: Entitled Nationhood, History, and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia0
Bandits into Citizens? Rehabilitation in the Post–Civil Wars Soviet Union0
Russian History Pre-1600: A Turn to a Postcolonial Perspective?0
Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny0
Ben Eklof (1946–2023)0
Got Civilization? Empire and the Empress in the 18th Century0
Who Read, Typed, and Distributed Samizdat in the Soviet Union?0
Katerina Clark (1941–2024): Literary History as a Device0
The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine0
Diversity, Belonging, and Violence in the Russian and Soviet Empires0
Eurasian Parliamentarism: What, Why, and Whither0
Recent Studies on Early Rus´ Chronicles0
Alfred Joseph Rieber, 1931–2025: A Remembrance0
Liberalism and the Law in Late Imperial Russia0
Propaganda, Patriotism, and Emotions in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine, 1914–220
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Interview with Diane Koenker0
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Slavic Seiðr? Reconsidering the Volkhvy of Northern Rus´0
Samozvanstvo in a Religious Context: Old Believer Bishops in Imperial Russia0
"May That Never Be Forgotten": Analyzing Regimes of Historicity in Adyghe Colonial War Songs0
Of Greetings, Salutations, and Honorifics: Elizabeth I, Boris Godunov, and Epistolary Signals of Status Acknowledgment0
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Ukrainian "National Science" from a Spatial Perspective: How the Hutsul Lands Were Mapped0
Power and Ownership under a Dictatorship: Early Forms of Nomenklatura Privatization in Stalin's USSR0
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Living under Stalin's Rule in Kazakhstan0
Perspectives on Soviet-Russian Dissent0
The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State Building in East-Central Europe after World War II0
Practicing Internationalism: The Cold War and Soviet Superpower Ambitions, 1964–820
Coping with Disaster: History and Historians in the Wake of War0
An Elusive Consensus0
Against Empires and Wars: Exiles, Escapees, Artists, and Communists between Russia and Japan0
Contested Legacies of Empire: Nationalism in the Unmaking of Belarusian Democracy, 1990–950
Russia's Handling of the Past: An Inventory before 24 February 20220
Thinking North-South, and a New Call for Papers0
Research Trends in the Study of Early Modern Central Asia0
Filling the Empty Container: Microhistory and the Challenges of Narrative0
Alfred Rieber in Budapest: Complex Frontiers, Border Crossings, and Central European Vistas0
Tracing Dagestani Deportees from Opochka to Tashkent: Notes on Transnational Archival Research and Decolonization0
Feminist in Actions if Not Name0
War Monuments and the Transformation of Russian Memorial Culture in the Long 20th Century0
Gentry Culture and Lifestyle in the 18th-Century Russian Provinces0
"Gold and Furs Are the Alpha and Omega of the Iakut Economy": Sakha Political Agency and Early Soviet Nationalities and Economic Policy, 1922–290
Liberal Values in Russia, 1996: How Washington Hijacked the Muppets0
Between the Crisis and the Revolution: The Tudeh, the ADP, and the Development of Nationalism in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1946–790
KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime0
Revolutionary Reform, Stillborn Revolution0
The Resettlement from Poland to the Soviet Union, 1944–47: Nation, Class, and Propaganda in Soviet Governance0
Defending Scholarship in Precarious Times0
Hippies and Soviet Liminality0
The Russian State on Center Stage: An Update0
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