So it goes https://t.co/9TRlkSY44O

The Gulag's "Dead Souls". The principal contribution of this article is the delineation of a novel methodological algorithm for the quantitative revision of mortality rates in Stalinist Gulag camps between 1930 and 1953. Link (pdf)- https://t.co/oxs3CJ2QtA

Our joint article with Judith Pallot on the concealment of epidemics in Soviet and Russian prisons (1890-2021) has been published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. https://t.co/H3tTrNKS7N

'You can check out, but you can never leave'. All welcome (!) to @StAntsCollege for the Week 2 #RESCMondaySeminar - @drpollyjones on #Gulag fiction. Convened by Zbig Wojnowski for @OxResc @REESOxford @OxfordHistory @OxfordModLangs https://t.co/xnfakZMQxx

This was quite an arduous journey, I am thankful to everyone who helped me along the way.

Really pleased to have co-edited a forthcoming special issue of SEER with @benphillips1989 on 'political martyrdom in late imperial Russia' with articles by us, @Lara_Green_ , Sally Boniece, Alison Rowley and Abby Holekamp. I think it's come together well.

Book launch of Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022), the Harriman Institute, Columbia University https://t.co/8ulEG3lP6g

Alan Barenberg, Emily D. Johnson: Rethinking the Gulag. Identities, Sources, Legacies. Indiana University Press, 2022. Rezension von Dietrich Beyrau in @JahrbuecherJGO 3/2023: https://t.co/t6AOd4mLGg

Dan Healey - The Gulag Doctors Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps À paraître en mars aux Yale UP

I am thankful to Michael David-Fox for the opportunity to publish in this volume alongside best specialists on the Soviet secret police.

Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State Edited by Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B Retish. Highly recommended. https://t.co/dtr915gg4c

Gulag Medical Releases: A Response to Stephen G. Wheatcroft https://t.co/cRRkvI2yuq

The Gulag's "Dead Souls" As its principal empirical contribution, the present article establishes a novel methodological algorithm for the quantitative revision of camp death rates in the Stalinist Gulag between 1930 and 1953. https://t.co/RYGkfGCekd

‘Archival counterrevolution’: why are GULAG regional archives so important? https://t.co/KTNlbfzEIa

Directive №31/593372 signed by the Gulag director Viktor Nasedkin (28 May 1941). It overtly sanctioned the concealment of starvation deaths in the GULAG camps from the "civilian" registration system and relatives of the dead prisoners. Source: GARF.

Secret Leviathan is out today! @mark4harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. #ReadUP @HooverArchives

‘Factory of invalids’: Mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds in GULAG, 1930-1955 https://t.co/BauyQRdjGT

In this blog, I adduce that neglect of the regional camp archives in conjunction with uncritical trust into the central records could seriously vitiate our understanding of GULAG mortality statistics. https://t.co/CAu0BPki9Z

My article 'Public Health and Prostitution in Revolutionary Petrograd, 1917-18' in now out & free to read in @enghistrev. It brings issues related to gender, sexuality, & medicine to the centre of the history of 1917

My article on the censorship of demographic statistics in the Brezhnev-era USSR is now online & free to read in @ContEuroHistory! It uses censorship to examine population politics and the value of statistics to the Soviet state:

My article in Kritika on the manipulation of Gulag death statistics will be also available on October 10, 2023, as a part of this significant and thought-provoking contribution to the studies of the Soviet secret police by @UPittPress.