Donnie M
@donnie-m.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at McGill
Doing Soviet History (Estonia, economic reform, and food systems under late socialism)
Doing Soviet History (Estonia, economic reform, and food systems under late socialism)
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my new piece in FP: The US keeps telling people to rise up against their regimes, then leaving them to die. Hungary, Iraq, Syria...now Iran? I try to offer an explanation for this very consistent pattern. (gift link) foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/16/t...
A Long History of Betrayal
Why Washington keeps encouraging foreign uprisings—and then walking away.
foreignpolicy.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
my new piece in FP: The US keeps telling people to rise up against their regimes, then leaving them to die. Hungary, Iraq, Syria...now Iran? I try to offer an explanation for this very consistent pattern. (gift link) foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/16/t...
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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism
Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
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Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
A little something I wrote on the role of Estonia as a "laboratory" space for experimenting with new forms of economic management in the Soviet Union, particularly in regards to the food system. Thank you @peripheralhist.bsky.social!
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism
Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A little something I wrote on the role of Estonia as a "laboratory" space for experimenting with new forms of economic management in the Soviet Union, particularly in regards to the food system. Thank you @peripheralhist.bsky.social!
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
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Deadline for submissions is Nov 15, 2025. We are keen on a range of presentation, panel, workshop and art formats and welcome new ideas. In regard to panels, we prioritise transregional and global debates and dialogues
For more details, see the full call
ruta-association.org/conference/r...
For more details, see the full call
ruta-association.org/conference/r...
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change - Ruta
For many years, canonized expertise on the RUTA region(s) has been produced from the outside, in particular through a Western academic gaze. This gaze has
ruta-association.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Deadline for submissions is Nov 15, 2025. We are keen on a range of presentation, panel, workshop and art formats and welcome new ideas. In regard to panels, we prioritise transregional and global debates and dialogues
For more details, see the full call
ruta-association.org/conference/r...
For more details, see the full call
ruta-association.org/conference/r...
Despite all the negative things about academia/grad school (dealing with AI, funding cuts, some people being snobs), I do think being able to travel and look at old documents in archives, museums, and libraries (and then write about it) is a pretty rad job
July 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Despite all the negative things about academia/grad school (dealing with AI, funding cuts, some people being snobs), I do think being able to travel and look at old documents in archives, museums, and libraries (and then write about it) is a pretty rad job
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Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Contemporary European History Prize
A prize aimed at encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career historians.
www.cambridge.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
May 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.
Love how this book describes Ottawa: what if like Moscow, but without all the interesting stuff?
May 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Love how this book describes Ottawa: what if like Moscow, but without all the interesting stuff?
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We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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insanity. but insane people create global orders too open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
Geopolitics, But Make It Dumb and Personal
Why we should think seriously about Trump’s neo-feudal order—even if he doesn't.
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
insanity. but insane people create global orders too open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.
January 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.
I am finally free from the bird app
October 28, 2023 at 4:07 PM
I am finally free from the bird app