Stephen Badalyan Riegg
@sbriegg.bsky.social
Historian of Imperial Russia & Caucasus at Texas A&M.
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***FREE TO READ ALERT***
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The Russian Review: Vol 84, No 4
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY!
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Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery.
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
Caucasus Heritage Watch
Help Cornell University raise $10,000 for the project: Caucasus Heritage Watch. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfunding.cornell.edu
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery.
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery.
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
Caucasus Heritage Watch
Help Cornell University raise $10,000 for the project: Caucasus Heritage Watch. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfunding.cornell.edu
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Please consider donating to Caucasus Heritage Watch, a unique research project based at Cornell and Purdue that documents and monitors abuses of cultural heritage in war zones in the Caucasus using high-resolution satellite imagery.
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/48028
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Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...
Chino's Gun
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...
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Coming soon @egasmb.bsky.social www.routledge.com/From-Empire-...
September 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Coming soon @egasmb.bsky.social www.routledge.com/From-Empire-...
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The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” in the October 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with the introductory essay by Mark Bassin, Dmitrii Dorogov, and Mikhail Suslov.
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
September 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” in the October 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with the introductory essay by Mark Bassin, Dmitrii Dorogov, and Mikhail Suslov.
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
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What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s?
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Project MUSE - The Tsar’s Proxy Civilizers: German Colonists and Scottish and Swiss Missionaries in the Nineteenth-Century Caucasus
muse.jhu.edu
September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s?
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
A terrific research fellowship in Yerevan. Write, work in the archives and libraries, meet friendly and smart colleagues --what more can we ask?
yerevancenter.org/ycie-researc...
yerevancenter.org/ycie-researc...
YCIE Research Fellowship Program | Call for applications: 2025–2026 academic year - YCIE
Program overview The YCIE Research Fellowship Program is designed to support research in the social sciences and humanities. We welcome applications from scholars at various stages of their academic c...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A terrific research fellowship in Yerevan. Write, work in the archives and libraries, meet friendly and smart colleagues --what more can we ask?
yerevancenter.org/ycie-researc...
yerevancenter.org/ycie-researc...
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RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s?
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Project MUSE - The Tsar’s Proxy Civilizers: German Colonists and Scottish and Swiss Missionaries in the Nineteenth-Century Caucasus
muse.jhu.edu
September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What do I mean by "civilization-by-proxy" as a tool of tsarist statecraft in the Caucasus of the 1800s?
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
Check out my latest article to find out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (arisc.org) is hosting this valuable event on Zoom on Sept 18 for prospective students seeking graduate training in the US.
September 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (arisc.org) is hosting this valuable event on Zoom on Sept 18 for prospective students seeking graduate training in the US.
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Scholars, teachers, and students: Check out our Living Syllabus Collection! russianreview.ku.edu/livingsyllabus
These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.
These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.
August 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Scholars, teachers, and students: Check out our Living Syllabus Collection! russianreview.ku.edu/livingsyllabus
These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.
These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.
The AHA's proverbially defeatist rhetoric strikes again: "Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is."
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The AHA's proverbially defeatist rhetoric strikes again: "Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is."
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My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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My book Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union has just been released in paperback at an affordable price. The digital edition is available open access.
July 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My book Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union has just been released in paperback at an affordable price. The digital edition is available open access.
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June 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print* between Mon., June 23rd + Fri., June 27th.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity!
* US orders only. Excludes Leuven UP. Not applicable for pre-order books.
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Very much looking forward to reading this when it's out in November! A must for folks interested in Russian peasants, social transformations, and WW I histories.
www.mqup.ca/peasants----...
www.mqup.ca/peasants----...
Peasants’ War, The | McGill-Queen’s University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
www.mqup.ca
May 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Very much looking forward to reading this when it's out in November! A must for folks interested in Russian peasants, social transformations, and WW I histories.
www.mqup.ca/peasants----...
www.mqup.ca/peasants----...
Note to researchers coming to work for the first time at the National Archives of Armenia: the building is under renovation and the front entrance is closed. Get in touch if you'd like pics of how to get inside through the back courtyard.
May 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Note to researchers coming to work for the first time at the National Archives of Armenia: the building is under renovation and the front entrance is closed. Get in touch if you'd like pics of how to get inside through the back courtyard.
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