Véronique Mickisch
@vmickisch.bsky.social
I am a historian of the Soviet Union, political economy and Marxism. In my spare time, I love sports, — especially martial arts —, music, reading fiction, art and watching movies.
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Amid everything else, a brief note to announce the CFP for the 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia.
If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying.
July 17–18, Paris.
If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying.
July 17–18, Paris.
Scott Gehlbach - 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and
Call for papers We invite submissions to a workshop on the economic history and historical political economy of Eurasia. The workshop will take place at th...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Amid everything else, a brief note to announce the CFP for the 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia.
If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying.
July 17–18, Paris.
If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying.
July 17–18, Paris.
For the Cold War History journal, I reviewed Michael de Groot's new book on the economic reasons for the demise of the Soviet Union, "Disruption: the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War". You can check out the review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Disruption: the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War
Published in Cold War History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 AM
For the Cold War History journal, I reviewed Michael de Groot's new book on the economic reasons for the demise of the Soviet Union, "Disruption: the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War". You can check out the review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In rankings that prioritize current research output, Chinese universities now completely dominate the global top 10. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:37 AM
In rankings that prioritize current research output, Chinese universities now completely dominate the global top 10. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
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The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring
by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch
web.sas.upenn.edu
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social
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For the JHI Blog's Forum on political economy, Véronique Mickisch critiques the continued association of "Marxism in practice” with the First Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union and raises the need to recover the work of Marxist thinkers violently suppressed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
The First Five-Year Plan, Stalinism, and the Fate of Marxist Political Economy in the USSR
Véronique Mickisch
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
January 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
For the JHI Blog's Forum on political economy, Véronique Mickisch critiques the continued association of "Marxism in practice” with the First Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union and raises the need to recover the work of Marxist thinkers violently suppressed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.