Siobhán Hearne
@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).
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Siobhán Hearne
@siobhanhearne.bsky.social
· Feb 25
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My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
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My review of Francesca Piana’s book is out! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
H-Diplo Review 648: Cretu on Piana, Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees_ | H-Net
H-Diplo Review 648Francesca Piana, Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War. Leiden University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9789087284213.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My review of Francesca Piana’s book is out! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'
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Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Please meet Azazello, hippie, poet, artist and narkoman, who is sadly no longer with us but whose papers found their way to The Wende Museum in LA and have been digitalised and contextualised by a team of scholars. It is an unusual ride into an exotic and marginalised world: azazello-archive.com/en/
Azazello Archive / The Life and Work of Azazello - Hippie, Poet and Artist
Azazello was a hippie, poet and artist. He believed in the power of mind-altering drugs and paid for his pacifism and opposition to the Soviet state with many months in psychiatric hospitals. He was a...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Please meet Azazello, hippie, poet, artist and narkoman, who is sadly no longer with us but whose papers found their way to The Wende Museum in LA and have been digitalised and contextualised by a team of scholars. It is an unusual ride into an exotic and marginalised world: azazello-archive.com/en/
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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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🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
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We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
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🚨 Job Alert!
We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
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We're recruiting a part-time freelance managing editor to join the CEH editorial team.
Applications are due by 30 November 2025.
Full details and application process here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
We have a new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social We were lucky enough to speak to Isaac McKean Scarborough about his excellent book 'Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/moscow-...
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR
In Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR (published with Cornell University Press, 2023) Isaac McKean Scarborough weaves together archival documents from Dushanbe and Moscow to tell ...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We have a new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social We were lucky enough to speak to Isaac McKean Scarborough about his excellent book 'Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/moscow-...
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Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester
Department of History Guest Seminar
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October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
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Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
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I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
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October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...
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🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]
I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea
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Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U
https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/red-priests-in-the-holy-city-vatican-ostpolitik-informants-and-soviet-lithuanian-priests-in-the-c
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September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U
Back to reality after a brilliant couple of weeks at the National Archives of Armenia. Trying to convince myself that I love the understated beauty of the UK in autumn, rather than fantasising about sunshine and mountains.
September 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Back to reality after a brilliant couple of weeks at the National Archives of Armenia. Trying to convince myself that I love the understated beauty of the UK in autumn, rather than fantasising about sunshine and mountains.
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Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!
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Tere! I'm in Estonia 🇪🇪 at Uni of Tartu Skytte Institute for 2 months researching the intergenerational effects of Soviet repression. I'm interviewing Estonians whose family experienced deportation/other repression. Interested? Please DM me, email isabelledesisto@princeton.edu & share widely. Aitäh!
September 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tere! I'm in Estonia 🇪🇪 at Uni of Tartu Skytte Institute for 2 months researching the intergenerational effects of Soviet repression. I'm interviewing Estonians whose family experienced deportation/other repression. Interested? Please DM me, email isabelledesisto@princeton.edu & share widely. Aitäh!
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🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland
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August 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
The CEH editors have started a digest in which we share news & choose an article that we have particularly enjoyed working on recently. My pick was Tereza Juhászová’s excellent ‘Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery'. Find the digest here: tinyurl.com/try6n599
August 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The CEH editors have started a digest in which we share news & choose an article that we have particularly enjoyed working on recently. My pick was Tereza Juhászová’s excellent ‘Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery'. Find the digest here: tinyurl.com/try6n599
Contemporary history provides unlimited avenues for distraction. I read in an archival document about Julio Iglesias doing a charity concert in Moscow in 1989 for UNICEF and hey presto, two minutes later I'm wincing at his cringey interactions with Soviet kids www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRM...
Julio Iglesias - The 1st performance in the USSR (1989)
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July 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Contemporary history provides unlimited avenues for distraction. I read in an archival document about Julio Iglesias doing a charity concert in Moscow in 1989 for UNICEF and hey presto, two minutes later I'm wincing at his cringey interactions with Soviet kids www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRM...
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Back from #ICCEES2025 and still processing all the connections and conversations! It was great to see so many panels on the history of humanitarianism, and to share some preliminary #ERC EMPSOLID research in such inspiring company.
En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
July 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Back from #ICCEES2025 and still processing all the connections and conversations! It was great to see so many panels on the history of humanitarianism, and to share some preliminary #ERC EMPSOLID research in such inspiring company.
Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...
July 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...
En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...