Marek Eby
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Epidemics, environments, science, and state power in the USSR. PhD Candidate @NYUHistory, studying malaria in Central Asia. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇲
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Joined February 2008
Really please that this volume is out! See my chapter to learn how Soviet malariologists contested and coopted international health projects, in the process helping to build a sphere of public health despite, and because of, Cold War divisions.
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Everything is clear, Sandu's headquarters are celebrating! 🎉 🇲🇩🇪🇺 Congratulations to #Moldova! ✅ Maia Sandu – The President! @sandumaiamd ✊
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I was struck by the *absence* of the USSR as an explicit model for the NHS. Seaton's discussion of interwar health politics made me realize this was probably intentional. There's a fascinating sort of inspiration/disavowal at play on the medical left. I want to learn more!
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But beyond the choice of orange, the first chapter of the book touches on a topic of real interest to me: the interwar networks of left and socialist health reform - and (for me) the role of the USSR therein.
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Reading @AndrewSeaton's new book, "Our NHS," which hardly needs my introduction. I want to note the orange colour scheme of the dust jacket. From a Canadian perspective, a very appropriate choice for a book on the social-democratic politics of healthcare!
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Been waiting years for this one, and it’s more beautiful than I could ever have imagined!
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Funding to study Ukrainian. I’ve utilized this in the past. It’s a great opportunity. Please share.
Support for Summer 2025 Ukrainian Study | H-Net
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One thing the "For you" tab is really good at is showing how many people on here are just reposting other people's viral takes as their own
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Do any of my Twitter friends have experience conducting public opinion surveys in Kazakhstan? 🇰🇿
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How dare you! As Hegel wrote somewhere, "Kaffee und Brot, bitte. Meine Schwester heißt Marie"!
Duolingo will not prepare you to read German philosophy in the original. I thought this would be obvious, but apparently it is not.
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#Twitterstorians: Have any of you done a material culture history assignment with students? I'm planning to have students in my Holocaust History course do one since we have an on-campus Holocaust museum with many material artifacts. If you can, please share what you've done! TY!
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Asking again!
Looking for resources, readings, recs on abortion and contraception in the late Soviet context (ideally in non-Russian contexts, thx).
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Was there a large amount of travel between China and Soviet Central Asia in the 1950s? I am reading a report from 1955 in which health authorities tested 6,700 people from China (приезжих) for malaria during a 3-month period in one oblast of Kyrgyzstan…
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Here's my hot take: I think @niccpianc has totally recast the debate on Soviet empire in two articles about the Qazaq famine (2022, 2017), and based on citations, it seems like most scholars haven't realized it yet
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Has anyone written about the effort to introduce new crops in the USSR during the Stalin Revolution? I'm thinking about kendyr (a fiber crop touted as a cotton alternative, very important in the 1FYP in northern Kyrgyzstan) in particular, but also just the topic in general
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Are there any existing archives of Soviet radio broadcasts, whether accessible or not at present? Kristin Roth-Eye notes that radio was "not well preserved," but was it preserved at all? I am interested especially in live (I think?) sports broadcasts from the 1950s
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