Konstantin Tarasov
@ktarasov.bsky.social
Historian of the First World War and the Russian Revolution of 1917
https://independent.academia.edu/TarasovK
https://t.me/hist1914_1922
https://independent.academia.edu/TarasovK
https://t.me/hist1914_1922
SOON!
Great news to mark the anniversary of a turning point in Russian history:
The proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium “Boundaries of the Political in Russia” are about to be published by Slavica
The book itself about crossing boundaries.
Great news to mark the anniversary of a turning point in Russian history:
The proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium “Boundaries of the Political in Russia” are about to be published by Slavica
The book itself about crossing boundaries.
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
SOON!
Great news to mark the anniversary of a turning point in Russian history:
The proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium “Boundaries of the Political in Russia” are about to be published by Slavica
The book itself about crossing boundaries.
Great news to mark the anniversary of a turning point in Russian history:
The proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium “Boundaries of the Political in Russia” are about to be published by Slavica
The book itself about crossing boundaries.
Battles for history
@efdavies.bsky.social against the new imperial history. @abimperio.bsky.social against politisation of the field.
In the thread.
(The publications are in German and behind paywall, so I'm posting links to authorised English translations)
1/3
@efdavies.bsky.social against the new imperial history. @abimperio.bsky.social against politisation of the field.
In the thread.
(The publications are in German and behind paywall, so I'm posting links to authorised English translations)
1/3
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Battles for history
@efdavies.bsky.social against the new imperial history. @abimperio.bsky.social against politisation of the field.
In the thread.
(The publications are in German and behind paywall, so I'm posting links to authorised English translations)
1/3
@efdavies.bsky.social against the new imperial history. @abimperio.bsky.social against politisation of the field.
In the thread.
(The publications are in German and behind paywall, so I'm posting links to authorised English translations)
1/3
An excerpt from the book "The Name of Discord" has been published online. You can read about how the mosaic of civil wars ultimately coalesced into one continuous #RussianCivilWar. I co-wrote this section of the book with Dmitry Ivanov.
gorky.media/fragments/gr...
gorky.media/fragments/gr...
October 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
An excerpt from the book "The Name of Discord" has been published online. You can read about how the mosaic of civil wars ultimately coalesced into one continuous #RussianCivilWar. I co-wrote this section of the book with Dmitry Ivanov.
gorky.media/fragments/gr...
gorky.media/fragments/gr...
I was today years old when I learned that in German there’s an expression "08/15" (null-acht-fünfzehn) meaning "ordinary, mediocre, nothing special"
And it comes from the name of a standard German #WWI machine gun. Alright, makes sense
And it comes from the name of a standard German #WWI machine gun. Alright, makes sense
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I was today years old when I learned that in German there’s an expression "08/15" (null-acht-fünfzehn) meaning "ordinary, mediocre, nothing special"
And it comes from the name of a standard German #WWI machine gun. Alright, makes sense
And it comes from the name of a standard German #WWI machine gun. Alright, makes sense
As they say, now it's official
Two-year research project at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Two-year research project at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As they say, now it's official
Two-year research project at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Two-year research project at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Soon. New book
The book "The Name of Discord: The Political Use of the Term "Civil War" (1917-1918)" will soon be published by the Novoe Literturnoe Obozrenie.
I was one of the editors of the collective monograph and wrote several chapters for it.
www.nlobooks.ru/books/intell...
The book "The Name of Discord: The Political Use of the Term "Civil War" (1917-1918)" will soon be published by the Novoe Literturnoe Obozrenie.
I was one of the editors of the collective monograph and wrote several chapters for it.
www.nlobooks.ru/books/intell...
September 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Soon. New book
The book "The Name of Discord: The Political Use of the Term "Civil War" (1917-1918)" will soon be published by the Novoe Literturnoe Obozrenie.
I was one of the editors of the collective monograph and wrote several chapters for it.
www.nlobooks.ru/books/intell...
The book "The Name of Discord: The Political Use of the Term "Civil War" (1917-1918)" will soon be published by the Novoe Literturnoe Obozrenie.
I was one of the editors of the collective monograph and wrote several chapters for it.
www.nlobooks.ru/books/intell...
New book
Russian translation of memoirs by Central Powers POWs who drawn into #RussianCivilWar in Central Asia.
eupress.ru/books/index/...
Russian translation of memoirs by Central Powers POWs who drawn into #RussianCivilWar in Central Asia.
eupress.ru/books/index/...
September 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
New book
Russian translation of memoirs by Central Powers POWs who drawn into #RussianCivilWar in Central Asia.
eupress.ru/books/index/...
Russian translation of memoirs by Central Powers POWs who drawn into #RussianCivilWar in Central Asia.
eupress.ru/books/index/...
New details about the monarchist extremists who tried to assassinate Russian liberal leader Pavel Milyukov and killed politician Vladimir Nabokov while he defended him.
www.svoboda.org/a/dobavochno...
www.svoboda.org/a/dobavochno...
September 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New details about the monarchist extremists who tried to assassinate Russian liberal leader Pavel Milyukov and killed politician Vladimir Nabokov while he defended him.
www.svoboda.org/a/dobavochno...
www.svoboda.org/a/dobavochno...
Hogging the blanckets of #RussianRevolution
Milyukov pulls toward “strengthening power” with whip and bayonet, Kerensky toward “strengthening freedom and revolution” outside, Lenin toward “deepening the revolution” everywhere. And the sweet German just offers his hand and heart.
Milyukov pulls toward “strengthening power” with whip and bayonet, Kerensky toward “strengthening freedom and revolution” outside, Lenin toward “deepening the revolution” everywhere. And the sweet German just offers his hand and heart.
August 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hogging the blanckets of #RussianRevolution
Milyukov pulls toward “strengthening power” with whip and bayonet, Kerensky toward “strengthening freedom and revolution” outside, Lenin toward “deepening the revolution” everywhere. And the sweet German just offers his hand and heart.
Milyukov pulls toward “strengthening power” with whip and bayonet, Kerensky toward “strengthening freedom and revolution” outside, Lenin toward “deepening the revolution” everywhere. And the sweet German just offers his hand and heart.
2 years of deciphering monstrous handwriting, 4 years of waiting and finally published!
My edition of Maksimilian Filonenko’s 1918 diary: politics, daily life, and a touch of love from a adventurer in the chaos of the Civil War.
www.academia.edu/143613616/
#RussianCivilWar
My edition of Maksimilian Filonenko’s 1918 diary: politics, daily life, and a touch of love from a adventurer in the chaos of the Civil War.
www.academia.edu/143613616/
#RussianCivilWar
August 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
2 years of deciphering monstrous handwriting, 4 years of waiting and finally published!
My edition of Maksimilian Filonenko’s 1918 diary: politics, daily life, and a touch of love from a adventurer in the chaos of the Civil War.
www.academia.edu/143613616/
#RussianCivilWar
My edition of Maksimilian Filonenko’s 1918 diary: politics, daily life, and a touch of love from a adventurer in the chaos of the Civil War.
www.academia.edu/143613616/
#RussianCivilWar
Book in open access.
Andrey Ganin on the officers of the General Staff during the years of #RussianRevolution and #RussianCivilWar
ganin-hist.ru/books/kadryi...
Andrey Ganin on the officers of the General Staff during the years of #RussianRevolution and #RussianCivilWar
ganin-hist.ru/books/kadryi...
August 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Book in open access.
Andrey Ganin on the officers of the General Staff during the years of #RussianRevolution and #RussianCivilWar
ganin-hist.ru/books/kadryi...
Andrey Ganin on the officers of the General Staff during the years of #RussianRevolution and #RussianCivilWar
ganin-hist.ru/books/kadryi...
New book in open access!
FELIX COWAN "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918"
www.jstor.org/stable/10.31...
FELIX COWAN "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918"
www.jstor.org/stable/10.31...
August 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New book in open access!
FELIX COWAN "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918"
www.jstor.org/stable/10.31...
FELIX COWAN "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918"
www.jstor.org/stable/10.31...
#RussianRevolution in 5 Seconds:
1. Kornilov, Kerensky, Lenin vs. Nicholas II
2. Kerensky, Lenin vs. Kornilov
3. Lenin vs. Kerensky
4. ??? vs. Lenin
History of the Russian State (Petrogradskiy golos. 1917. 17 December)
1. Kornilov, Kerensky, Lenin vs. Nicholas II
2. Kerensky, Lenin vs. Kornilov
3. Lenin vs. Kerensky
4. ??? vs. Lenin
History of the Russian State (Petrogradskiy golos. 1917. 17 December)
August 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#RussianRevolution in 5 Seconds:
1. Kornilov, Kerensky, Lenin vs. Nicholas II
2. Kerensky, Lenin vs. Kornilov
3. Lenin vs. Kerensky
4. ??? vs. Lenin
History of the Russian State (Petrogradskiy golos. 1917. 17 December)
1. Kornilov, Kerensky, Lenin vs. Nicholas II
2. Kerensky, Lenin vs. Kornilov
3. Lenin vs. Kerensky
4. ??? vs. Lenin
History of the Russian State (Petrogradskiy golos. 1917. 17 December)
From Russian trench newspaper of #WWI and #RussianRevolution.
Top: "A train with reinforcements going to the front"
Bottom: "An empty train going to the rear"
(newspaper "Ne Pravda" (Not the Truth), 1917)
archive.org/details/kava...
Top: "A train with reinforcements going to the front"
Bottom: "An empty train going to the rear"
(newspaper "Ne Pravda" (Not the Truth), 1917)
archive.org/details/kava...
August 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
From Russian trench newspaper of #WWI and #RussianRevolution.
Top: "A train with reinforcements going to the front"
Bottom: "An empty train going to the rear"
(newspaper "Ne Pravda" (Not the Truth), 1917)
archive.org/details/kava...
Top: "A train with reinforcements going to the front"
Bottom: "An empty train going to the rear"
(newspaper "Ne Pravda" (Not the Truth), 1917)
archive.org/details/kava...
New book in @princetonupress.bsky.social
"The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire" by Mustafa Aksakal #WWI
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire" by Mustafa Aksakal #WWI
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
August 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New book in @princetonupress.bsky.social
"The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire" by Mustafa Aksakal #WWI
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire" by Mustafa Aksakal #WWI
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
New book! Open access!
"The Red Cross Facing the Red Star" on the relationship between communism and global humanitarianism. 1/3 of the articles on #RussianCivilWar.
www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...
"The Red Cross Facing the Red Star" on the relationship between communism and global humanitarianism. 1/3 of the articles on #RussianCivilWar.
www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New book! Open access!
"The Red Cross Facing the Red Star" on the relationship between communism and global humanitarianism. 1/3 of the articles on #RussianCivilWar.
www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...
"The Red Cross Facing the Red Star" on the relationship between communism and global humanitarianism. 1/3 of the articles on #RussianCivilWar.
www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...
Dear Imperial War Musesum,
Where did you find this conspiracy?
"The Tsar was forced to abdicate by his own generals."
This is not serious for such a great museum.
#RussinRevolution
#WWI
Where did you find this conspiracy?
"The Tsar was forced to abdicate by his own generals."
This is not serious for such a great museum.
#RussinRevolution
#WWI
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dear Imperial War Musesum,
Where did you find this conspiracy?
"The Tsar was forced to abdicate by his own generals."
This is not serious for such a great museum.
#RussinRevolution
#WWI
Where did you find this conspiracy?
"The Tsar was forced to abdicate by his own generals."
This is not serious for such a great museum.
#RussinRevolution
#WWI
Marie-Josée Lavallée explains how the split in the left over how to fight the Austrofascists helped the latter consolidate their hold on power in interwar Austria
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Marie-Josée Lavallée explains how the split in the left over how to fight the Austrofascists helped the latter consolidate their hold on power in interwar Austria
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
Aaron Retish, @immorebitschek.bsky.social , Matthew Rendle, Rhiannon Dowling, Dina Moyal and Juliette Cadiot discuss Soviet law and justice
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Aaron Retish, @immorebitschek.bsky.social , Matthew Rendle, Rhiannon Dowling, Dina Moyal and Juliette Cadiot discuss Soviet law and justice
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
A wonderful section by @profaks.bsky.social, Jennifer Keating and Sarah Badcock on internal migration and belonging in the late Russian Empire: peasants going to Gatchina, nomadic peoples moving around Central Asia and the beggers whose work was constantly on the move.
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A wonderful section by @profaks.bsky.social, Jennifer Keating and Sarah Badcock on internal migration and belonging in the late Russian Empire: peasants going to Gatchina, nomadic peoples moving around Central Asia and the beggers whose work was constantly on the move.
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
I can tell you that Britain makes you keep further left than you're used to.
July 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I can tell you that Britain makes you keep further left than you're used to.
@georgegilbert.bsky.social talks about the research he is finishing: about the cult of left and right political martyrs in the late Russian Empire.
@benphillips1989.bsky.social
#iccees2025
@benphillips1989.bsky.social
#iccees2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
@georgegilbert.bsky.social talks about the research he is finishing: about the cult of left and right political martyrs in the late Russian Empire.
@benphillips1989.bsky.social
#iccees2025
@benphillips1989.bsky.social
#iccees2025
Our #iccees2025 section with @pwhitewood.bsky.social had a great audience: @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social, Alexander Morrison, Matt Rendle, Evgeny Sergeev, Yoshiro Ikeda, Francis King, @opolianichev.bsky.social and also Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (who is not in the frame)
Interesting comments and questions!
Interesting comments and questions!
July 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our #iccees2025 section with @pwhitewood.bsky.social had a great audience: @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social, Alexander Morrison, Matt Rendle, Evgeny Sergeev, Yoshiro Ikeda, Francis King, @opolianichev.bsky.social and also Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (who is not in the frame)
Interesting comments and questions!
Interesting comments and questions!
@sdanisimova.bsky.social searches for the origin of the word intervention
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
#iccees2025
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
#iccees2025
July 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@sdanisimova.bsky.social searches for the origin of the word intervention
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
#iccees2025
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
#iccees2025
How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London
#iccees2025
#iccees2025
July 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London
#iccees2025
#iccees2025