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Today is publication day for Moscow Monumental!! Enormous thanks to
@e_crahan
@Thalia_Leaf
and the team
@PrincetonUPress
!
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My book will be out Dec 8! I am eagerly awaiting my author copies, which are in a box somewhere near Pittsburgh making their way to me now. Thanks to
@Thalia_Leaf
and
@PrincetonUPress
for seeing this project through!!
Very excited to add this book to my shelf!
@kzubovich
@PrincetonUPress
#Moscow
#architecture
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Wow!! I'm incredibly honoured to see Moscow Monumental shortlisted for this prize!
Congratulations to
@kzubovich
and
@PrincetonUPress
!
MOSCOW MONUMENTAL has been shortlisted for
#PushkinPrize2021
!
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First (for me) sighting of my book in the wild today
@LRBbookshop
! Then spotted it again right around the corner
@Pushkin_House
Thrilled to be in London for tomorrow's exciting book prize event!
@PrincetonUPress
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"Making Cities Socialist" is out! 📚 Part of the Elements in Global Urban History series, it's also free to download until Mar 25:
@urbanhist
@UrbanHistoryA
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Currently living in Sokol’niki, once home of Soviet aviator and WWII pilot Nikolai Gastello.
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Excited and honoured to see Moscow Monumental included in this list!
@PrincetonUPress
Our 2021 best of books list is here! Explore Foreign Affairs’ top picks of the year, including books by
@annemeng
,
@kzubovich
,
@AndrewWJHarding
,
@sheeraf
and
@ceciliakang
,
@robertsreport
, and much more.
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Exciting news to share!
@UB_History
is excited to announce that
@kzubovich
and
@genezubovich
will be joining the department beginning in the Fall. Welcome Katherine and Gene!
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Happy to see my book's rating on Good Reads has improved, thanks to this 5-star review from my mother-in-law. Thanks, Mom! 🤣♥️
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Excited to have been awarded a new faculty teaching award
@RUFacultyofArts
This award is really a reflection of my amazing students! (Also excited the awards ceremony was held at maple leaf gardens!)
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My copy of this beautiful book by
@cecrawford_
has arrived and I can't wait to dig in! Hurry and get yours here:
Congratulations, Christina!!!🎉
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Amazing to have a friend like
@yanareads
giving us a boost in these dark days!
Nothing makes me happier these dark days than seeing friends & colleagues release their books into the world:
@kzubovich
"Moscow Monumental" (
@PrincetonUPress
) &
@siobhanhearne
"Policing Prostitution" (
@OUPHistory
) can't come out soon enough!
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Thrilled that Moscow Monumental is featured as a
#longread
in the Moscow Times! Many thanks to
@JWEremeeva
and
@MicheleBerdy
!
#longread
. This week we have another terrific long read! Introduced by
@JWEremeeva
, we follow
@kzubovich
as she climbs up to the top of Moscow's famous "wedding cake" skyscrapers and tells us the real, full story of their creation.
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The Lenin library is my new favourite place to eat lunch and write in the afternoons. h/t
@profaks
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Excited to be
@kennaninstitute
this year in the company of these and so many other inspiring scholars!
Please join us in welcoming our new scholars
@kzubovich
,
@kamilkazani
,
@alenapopova
and Lee Singh!
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Excited that my article on Moscow’s Zariad’e is in this issue and doubly thrilled to be included among such great company! Enjoying these first articles on jurisprudence and history (Pravilova) and Kaliningrad (Eaton) so much.
Winter 2020 issue (21, no. 1) up on
@ProjectMUSE
: . And for those who chart our cover colors, we're back to our signature blue this year.
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Looking forward to this tomorrow! Join us by registering below:
Tomorrow @ 12PM Katherine Zubovich (
@kzubovich
), will discuss her book, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital, joined by discussant Kimberly E. Zarecor (HI '04). Alexander Cooley will moderate the discussion.
Register:
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I got an email from Academia .edu this morning appearing to be from Soviet architect Boris Iofan. The usual spam I can handle, but resurrection is one stomach-lurching step too far.👻😱👎
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"For academic historians of the USSR the potential dismantling of Memorial is a serious blow to their attempts to write the history of the Stalin era and a further example of the weaponisation of history and scholarship that is undermining academic freedom in Russia today."
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Only on my third day in the LOC's European reading room do I look up and notice this stunning ceiling. Will admit that I'm perhaps a little too absorbed in these books...
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Lots of fun today in Soviet history class working with Lenin-related material culture
@ryersonlibrary
Special Collections
@RyersonHistory
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Q&A about my newly-released book Moscow Monumental on
@PrincetonUPress
Ideas site (Photo by
@AvantGardeArch
of Red Gates Building, Moscow, taken 2009)
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Seeing the design sample for your first book has to be one of the most exciting things ever! The fonts, the images, the layout, the headers...it's all so beautiful! 😍
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I'm excited to be giving a virtual talk about my book Moscow Monumental next Tues July 6 at 6pm at New York City's
@SkyMuseum
!
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Join us tomorrow for a joint book launch celebration! 1pm EST/5pm GMT ✨🏗️🏢
Tomorrow eve, 5pm: PPV Book Launch : Moscow Monumental
@kzubovich
and The Palace Complex
@murawski_michal
Details and registration:
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A weekend in NYC means getting a few hours of research time in at this amazing library!
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I’m excited to be giving a book talk about Moscow Monumental (published Dec 2020
@PrincetonUPress
) next Thurs Feb 11 at 1pm CST as part of UManitoba’s Central and East European Program Lecture Series
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Distracted by this amazing painting by Yuri Pimenov ("The Cafe," 1971) while looking through Ogonek for something completely different.
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I'm looking forward to teaching my Soviet history class again this semester and to sharing this powerful resource (created by the
@gulag_museum
) with my students:
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What would El Lissitzky's horizontal skyscrapers look like in had they been built in central Moscow?
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Check out the
@PrincetonUPress
virtual exhibit for the 2021 Society of Architectural Historians conference! 30% off + free shipping on books including Moscow Monumental
#SAH2021
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Many thanks for this review of my book Moscow Monumental by
@zinaida_osipova
(whose own work on Dzerzhinsk and Nizhny Novgorod I am eager to read!) 📚
In Moscow Monumental, writes
@zinaida_osipova
,
@kzubovich
explores Soviet attempts to convey Moscow's significance through skyscraper construction capturing "the essence of late Stalinism ..." Check out the full review!
@PrincetonUPress
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Undergrads
@RyersonU
interested in a fuller history of the USSR and its collapse can take my Soviet History course (HST 651) this semester. On the Soviet-Afghan War, we'll be reading Svetlana Alexievich's "Zinky Boys." | "Trump’s bizarre history lesson"
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Tune in tomorrow for my talk on "The Art of Soviet Statistics"!
[REMINDER] Join us this Wednesday, Nov. 30 for a talk by Billington Fellow
@kzubovich
, who will discuss how
#Soviet
artists and economists used
#datavisualization
in the 1930s to communicate the goals and results of the first Five-Year Plans. RSVP here: 🔗
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Excited to see all these posts about
#ASEEES21
! I'm not attending in-person (will be presenting in the virtual conference in a few weeks), but it's just so nice to feel FOMO again. Please keep posting your pictures of beignets! And have fun in New Orleans, y'all!
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Heading off to teach my City in History class with those first-day-back jitters! Love how the excitement of the first day never seems to diminish no matter how many new academic years pass!
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I had a great time recently speaking with
@JWEremeeva
about my book for the New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies. Here's the interview: "Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Enormous congratulations to Archie Brown! It was an absolute delight to attend yesterday's prize event!
We are delighted to announce the winner of
#PushkinPrize2021
is Archie Brown for 'The Human Factor' published by
@OUPAcademic
.
Congratulations!
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A weekend well spent learning how to do cmyk screenprinting! “Baikal by train, 2015”
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Thanks
@CERESMunk
! I'm proud to be an alum of this great Master's program!
If you think our students are impressive, you should meet our alumnae & alumni! Congrats to
@kzubovich
on the review in .
@FT
of her new book from
@PrincetonUPress
! Read the article:
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Today is the best day in my City in History class, because today is the day I get to talk about Moscow! <3
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Wonderful article "On Silence and History" by Lilia Topouzova in the AHR "explores the methodological challenges of working with a purged archive and fragmented oral histories while telling the little-known story of the Bulgarian gulag and its aftermath"
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I had the pleasure of reviewing Christina Schwenkel's excellent book Building Socialism for
@UrbanHistoryA
's Metropole. It's one of those books that blows you away with the scope of its research and depth of its arguments. Highly recommend!
In Building Socialism, Christina Schwenkel explores the reconstruction of the Vietnamese city Vinh under the influence of GDR planners, the impact of its modernist reconstruction & what happened after the experts departed notes
@kzubovich
@DukePress
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In Zagreb for
@aseeestudies
conference and looking forward to discussing these 3 excellent papers tomorrow! This panel has it all: anarchist geographers, Cuban-Soviet tropical scientists, and the Soviet search for the Abominable Snowman.
Join us on Saturday June 15 for our panel at ASEEES, where we'll talk about Russian and Soviet Science and the multifold meanings of boundaries within this history
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Zubovich 2020: did you get ice cream, because if not I’ll pick some up
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"My Street: Moscow is getting a makeover, and the rest of Russia is next" by
@murawski_michal
via
@calvertjournal
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How lovely is this virtual award ceremony created by
@UrbanHistoryA
! Congratulations to the winners of this year's book and article prizes in urban history! 🎉
Our UHA Virtual Award Ceremony is now available to view! Link to view:
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Excited to be heading to New York next week to talk about my book Moscow Monumental
@NYUJordanCenter
! Format is hybrid (in-person for NYU affiliates, Zoom for everyone else) 📚📢
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👇Spend some time today touring the remarkable and historic Ukrainian city of Lviv
@UrbanHistoryA
#StandWithUkraine
️
We just spent an hour in Lviv. Lviv Interactive, that is—a web-accessible, interactive historical map of the city of Lviv. Check it out and support
@CUH_Lviv
#Lviv
#Ukraine
️
#StopTheWar
#interactive
#History
cc
@phivk
#generousinterfaces
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Hot off the press: our special issue on 'Radical Verticality: Critical Explorations of High-Rise Urbanism' is now out in Urban Studies! Congrats to all the authors on their excellent articles exploring cities that include Chongqing, Mumbai, Izmir, London, Santiago!
The March 2024 special issue (Volume 61, Issue 4) of
#UrbanStudies
is out now: 'Radical Verticality: Critical Explorations of High-Rise Urbanism' guest edited by
@casperlaing
,
@murawski_michal
,
@urban_anthro
and
@kzubovich
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Excited to be at Queen’s University in Belfast for the Urban History Group conference! Looking forward to our panel on socialist cities tomorrow with Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman and
@zaybad
#UHG2019
@urbanhistgroup
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Grateful to
@strelkamagazine
for publishing this excerpt from the last chapter of Moscow Monumental!
In her new book, published by
@PrincetonUPress
, historian
@kzubovich
looks at the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era that fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital and continue to define Moscow today.
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Looking forward to our 1pm EST panel today at
#ASEEES21
on "Soviet Languages of Internationalism"! Come join us!
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Espresso-table book it is! All the allure of a coffee table book, but bolder, thicker, and way more intense. You're onto something,
@RussianHistProf
@kzubovich
Moscow Monumental is monumental itself! It’s not quite a coffee-table book in size, but it’s still larger than most scholarly tomes. Shall we say it’s an espresso-table book?
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Moscow is all about bikes and scooters these days. The struggle to keep them out of the library is super real.
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I'll be speaking with Kimberly E. Zarecor about my book Moscow Monumental on March 9 at noon (EST) at Columbia's Harriman Institute. Register here for this virtual event!:
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How did blog TO not use the side-eye emoji in this tweet. Here, I’ll do it. 😒 Also 🤨🤔🤬
Seems like almost everyone in Toronto decided to go to Trinity Bellwoods Park today 📹camillebartul
#Toronto
#TrinityBellwoods
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Looking forward to our cities & inequalities panel later this month! Join us!
Global Urban History "Dream Conversations" next installment: cities & inequalities panel on socialism, capitalism, and cities in transition, with
@kzubovich
@edeAntunano
, Kristin Stapleton, and Mariana Dantas. Fri, Jan 28. Open to all!
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Having to remove yourself from the archive reading room because the document you’re reading is so funny is an unexpected Friday treat.
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Elektrozavodskaia metro station, Moscow, opened in May 1944
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A powerful way to begin in the first room of
@gulag_museum
: doors from prisons, camps, pretrial detention centers.
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Congratulations
@cecrawford_
! Can't wait for to read this book!
Spatial Revolution, my first book (on early Soviet architecture and planning), is in the Fall/Winter 2021 catalogue of Cornell University Press! I'm feeling a little out of body.
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Ending a quick vacation to New Orleans with a walk in Audubon park!
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This summer sale is great and it's on for one more day! I just got Architecture in Global Socialism by
@StanekLukasz
, John Connelly's From Peoples into Nations, Holly Case's Age of Questions, Arunabh Ghosh's Making it Count and, well, MORE!
Our Summer Sale with 50% off all in-print titles and free worldwide shipping is happening now, June 24th through June 28th. Enjoy the savings and let us know what books you bought to elevate your summer reading!
#PUPSummerSale
#ReadUP
#PrincetonUPress
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This semester I'm assigning Barbara Engel's Between the Fields & the City. I love this book but I didn't yet own a copy so I bought one online from a used bookstore in western new york. Turns out, it's Brenda Meehan's copy, complete with her marginal checks! 😍
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This is a great chapter! ("Reckoning with the Past: Stalin and Stalinism in Putin's Russia" by
@YashaRyan85
) I'm looking forward to discussing it with students in the last week of my "Stalinism" course this semester.
Promoting this edited volume, I've been reluctant to draw attention to my own chapter. But obviously I want it to be read, and I think it might be interesting for those considering collective memory in Russia today/the politics of history more generally.
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Super excited to combine forces with
@murawski_michal
on March 16 for a JOINT BOOK LAUNCH (featuring our v. kind phd advisors Caroline Humphrey and Yuri Slezkine as respondents!)
@PrincetonUPress
@iupress
✨📚 🎉
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It's clearly been a year short on good news when my response to students emailing about having to miss class for a vaccine appointment is basically this:
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Vladimir Paperny/Культура Два stans take note: there is an exciting roundtable about the iconic book tomorrow organized by Antony Kalashnikov at virtual
#ASEEES21
! (And if you have energy for any more excitement, there's a roundtable about my book right after.)
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This is a very exciting Summer📚Sale!! 50% off on the
@PrincetonUPress
site until July 21 for books, including MOSCOW MONUMENTAL
The Summer Sale has begun! Worldwide and sitewide (some exclusions apply) our hardcover and paperback books are 50% off with code PUP21. Shop now through July 21st and stock up!
#PUPSummerSale
#PrincetonUPress
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Happening today!
I’m excited to be giving a book talk about Moscow Monumental (published Dec 2020
@PrincetonUPress
) next Thurs Feb 11 at 1pm CST as part of UManitoba’s Central and East European Program Lecture Series
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Excited to be giving a talk tomorrow
@CERESMunk
! Interested in the American engineers hired to help build the Palace of Soviets? Curious about how Moscow's architects in 30s actively and enthusiastically forged relationships w/ their US counterparts? Come!
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Rainy last day in Moscow, spent wandering the centre and visiting the Pushkin Museum to see their excellent Shchukin exhibit. Прощай, Москва!
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On the crowded subway on my way to teach, standing next to a little girl who's memorizing cue cards for her speech at school today about International Women's Day. ❤️
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Why not specify the amount of the honorarium
@AHAhistorians
? Surely this is an important detail for grad students planning out summer projects and finances (not to mention the request for cover letter, writing sample, and pitch--a lot of work without knowing what the gig pays...)
Always wanted to blog, but never knew where to start? Blog with the AHA!! Apply today to become a summer blogger.
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Fun times exploring Columbus, MS, birthplace of Tennessee Williams and home of the annual “Stella” shouting contest
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I’ve run through airports to catch connecting flights a lot, but today was a first: I actually missed the flight. So annoying that I made a note to my future self to add cardio training to pre-trip prep. Figure it’s too late now, tho, so am eating all the baklava in IST airport.
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Thought I was moving to a place where writing wouldn't be interrupted by rallies...nope! No cuts to Council!
#ourcityhall
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So stoked to be back in Berkeley this week to give a talk about my research to K-14 teachers as part of the
@ORIASUCB
summer institute! Such a treat!
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My students in “The City in History” will be reading this report this semester. Not that they have to—they live the effects of Toronto’s decade-long austerity budget every day. If I feel crushed by this rental market, I can only imagine how much stress this adds to their lives.
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Looking for a good breakfast recipe to liven up your 20 millionth pandemic Sunday? This recipe by
@JWEremeeva
is so so good! Here Comes the Sun: Lemon Oladi for Maslenitsa [but you can make them whenever!]
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Grateful to Maria Lipman for this capsule review of Moscow Monumental: via
@ForeignAffairs
@PrincetonUPress
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This is deeply concerning news and if liquidation goes ahead this indeed would be a serious blow to our ability to write the history of the Stalin era. Chilling to think of the pages of my own small book that would be blank were it not for the archival holdings of Memorial.
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Getting distracted in the Krokodil database is inevitable, right? Here's a cartoon that I wasn't looking for, but enjoyed anyway, from May 1937. Caption: "Вот строили люди совсем без окон, и за тысячи лет ни одной жалобы от жильцов."
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This, all the way.
Me lecturing on Western Europe vs. Me lecturing on Eastern Europe
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You won't regret taking a few minutes to watch Ilya Mazo's "Spring's Servant" starring Chyngyz Kalberdiev (and also starring Moscow). "Delivery couriers are the true heroes of our times." Indeed! Beautiful! via
@calvertjournal
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Speaking of Georgia...check out this project by
@cecrawford_
that centers "Atlanta on the interwar architectural map, establishing the city’s role as a clearinghouse for European social housing ideas in the U.S." Great material here for teaching!
@urbanhist
@UrbanHistoryA
We’ve just launched the polemical New Deal-era housing film “World War Against Slums” on Thanks to the family of Charles F. Palmer for permission to make it freely available. Please use/share this phenomenal primary resource widely!
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If needed, can be found riding the funicular in Québec City. Happy Holidays, All!
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Fun at the library this morning—love this drawing from the 1930s of Moscow’s Lubianskaia Square!
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