@theins.press

The Insider is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. We're fully committed to investigative journalism and to debunking fake news. theins.press/en

@weshubert.bsky.social

I am an author living and writing in Northern Ontario, Canada. I write mostly science fiction but have also written historical fiction.

@szakonyi.bsky.social

Associate Professor at George Washington University Co-Founder, Anti-Corruption Data Collective (@acdatacollective.bsky.social) Researching corruption, kleptocracy and authoritarianism in Russia and the West

@marekeby.bsky.social

Epidemics, environments, science, and state power in the USSR. History PhD from NYU, studying malaria in Central Asia. Canadian in the US.

@brdemuth.bsky.social

Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting

@odrachewych.bsky.social

Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, Comintern, Russia's War in Ukraine; professor at Western University and King's University College. www.oleksadrachewych.com

@historyasif.bsky.social

New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics

@vhtroyansky.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)

@uilleamblacker.bsky.social

I write about Ukraine and eastern Europe, literature and culture, memory and cities. I translate Ukrainian literature. I'm from Scotland.

@pwhitewood.bsky.social

Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz

@siobhanhearne.bsky.social

Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).

@orelb.bsky.social

Historian of modern Europe in its Eurasian context. Education, youth, social structure, and family life. Comparative and transnational history. PhD, Yale; currently a postdoc fellow at the Polonsky Academy.

@kbruisch.bsky.social

Environmental historian at Trinity College Dublin thinking about energy, peatlands, and the (un-)making of place in modern Russia

@robdale.bsky.social

Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York.

@fabianbaumann.bsky.social

Historian of Eastern and East Central Europe, Heidelberg University. Nationalism and family in late imperial Ukraine, treason and disloyalty in interwar Czechoslovakia. "Dynasty Divided" out now: https://tinyurl.com/3m6e5f9d

@kristyironside.bsky.social

@balalaichnitsa.bsky.social

Brit abroad | historian and fiction writer | NA | Asst Prof @ IUBloomington | Tweets #EarlyModern #Russia #GlobalHistory #MentalHealth | she/her

@opolianichev.bsky.social

Historian of Tsarist Russia at Södertörn University, Stockholm | Colonial and transimperial history | Ph.D. from EUI

@nicoleeaton.bsky.social

Historian at Boston College communism, fascism, nationalism USSR, Germany, Balkans to Baltics hEDS🦓 LC ME/CFS book: GERMAN BLOOD, SLAVIC SOIL http://bit.ly/3wdaGkk Deeply skeptical of social media - just here to watch you all fight it out

@tricia-starks.bsky.social

Historian of Russian/Soviet Health and Med. Pushkin House Prize nominee for Cigarettes and Soviets. Shortlisted for Smoking under the Tsars. Now researching Russian male health. Opinions my own.

@jonathanzludwig.bsky.social

Researches/writes about spies, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Taiwan, and foreign language education/national security policy. Owner/author of www.viewsfromtheheartland.com.

@timothynunan.bsky.social

Historian | International history, global development, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at Univ. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," now working on Shi'a Islamism | Views my own.

@maikelehmann.bsky.social

Historian of Eastern Europe with a focus on the multiethnic Soviet Union and transnational encounters during the Late Cold War. Formerly @JahrbuecherJGO and a few universities

@deselv.bsky.social

Independent Historian. Expert on Soviet-bloc history, active measures, Stasi and KGB. RT does not mean endorsement. Views are mine, not those of my employer.

@unabergmane.bsky.social

Historian working on Soviet collapse. Author of "Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." (OUP, 2023) Researcher at Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) From Latvia

@profaks.bsky.social

(Russian) history prof at the University of Toronto and (very) occasional blogger at russianhistoryblog.org. Mostly posts things from research and teaching. She/her.

@sarahjyoung.bsky.social

Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021

@jhawn.bsky.social

Doctoral Candidate at LSE International History. I have written a dissertation on the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993. God willing it will be a book. I use to live in DC and do public policy, geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. he/him

@lwarnertreloar.bsky.social

AHRC-funded PhD candidate @KingstonUni | Project title: 'Book Arts and Identity in Eastern Europe, 1890s-1930s' | @RoyalhistSoc Postgraduate member | https://linktr.ee/LWarnerTreloar

@piakoivunen.bsky.social

PhD, Senior lecturer in European and World history @UniTurku, Finland. Chair of Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies @FAREES Russia, Cold War, mega-events, youth & student organisations, oral history, memory politics & museums.

@ykazakov.bsky.social

somewhere between the dead and the living / lapsed historian of the russian 20th century / translator ru↔eng / nyc / everything is forever until it is no more

@georgegilbert.bsky.social

Associate professor @historyatsoton.bsky.social BASEES Research and Development, co-editor at The SEER journal, co-director of CEEES at Southampton. Dept profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfq6m/doctor-george-gilbert#research

@ionutbiliuta.bsky.social

Historian of Eastern Europe focused especially on Romania, Greece, and Moldova. I am interested in studying the region through lenses such as antisemitism, the Holocaust, (neo-)fascism, and the impact of Orthodox Churches on local societies. Bookhoarder!

@kassymbekova.bsky.social

Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.

@immorebitschek.bsky.social

Historian of Eastern Europe, Stalinism, Soviet law & criminal justice, Russian imperial famine relief and humanitarianism... and the NBA (go Mavs 🏀!) @uni-jena.de https://uni-jena.academia.edu/ImmoRebitschek

@mwehowski.bsky.social

Historiker / research fellow (Ph.D). Hannh-Arendt Institut für Totalitarismusforschung. Schwerpunkt Polen, Sowjetunion/Russland, Ukraine. Mikroblogs zu Osteuropa. Verbringe meine Freizeit mit Büchern.

@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social

Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)

@historyofcommunism.bsky.social

History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism.

@mauricejcasey.com

Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com

@jolaycock.bsky.social

Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Manchester.

@christorical.bsky.social

Historian of Modern Europe at Occidental College. Writing about incarcerated youth in France, Russia, Ukraine, teaching is life!

@kpanyc.bsky.social

Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com

@andyjc17.bsky.social

Historian of the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Father and Husband. Coffee. Books. Golden retrievers.

@returnstosender.bsky.social

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum

@jveidlinger.bsky.social

Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. Author of “In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1922 in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust”

@aschacht.bsky.social

Historian (East Central Europe, International History of Science & Medicine) at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. PhD from @dshcs.bsky.social and @recetvienna.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at, Managing Editor with @administory.bsky.social

@juliaboechat.bsky.social

PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching #BookHistory in the Soviet Union | VP and Editor-in-Chief @isha-international.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷, studied in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹| Passionate about literature, traveling and swing dancing (she / her)