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CLUSTER: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN COLONIALISM

Introduction: Stepping Stones—Towards a History of Russian Colonialism
Anglophone Historiography of Russian Empire before the Imperial Turn
Colonialism or kolonizatsiia? Why the Difference between Ukraine and Central Asia Matters
Slavic Settlers and Conversion to Islam in Russian Central Asia
The Misadventures of a Dagestani Merchant: Empire and Muslim Mobility in Central Asia

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Faulty Premises, Poetic Words: Nationalizing Moral Error in Dostoevskii and Heidegger
More than a Replica: Exhibiting Nuclear Energy through the Model of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

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Spring 2026

Volume 85, NO. 1

Constructing and Deconstructing Disability in Eastern Europe and Russia

Maria Cristina Galmarini and Maria Bucur   

Deafness in the Interwar Romanian Press: From “Abnormal” Children to Celebrated Soccer Stars

maria bucur

Contested Normalities: Concepts of Autism in Socialist Bulgaria

Gergana Mircheva                                                                  

The Invalid Fund: Disabled Afghan War Veterans, Violence, and Organized Crime in Post-Soviet Russia

Emily Hoge                                                                            

Returning “Our Royal Animal” to its “Fatherland”: The Near-extinction and Restoration of Bison in Poland after World War I

Nathaniel D. Wood

The Lviv Pogrom as an Epistemic Event: Violence, Denial, and Knowledge in Postimperial Poland

Jagoda Wierzejska

The Barber-Surgeon and the Schismatic: Reframing an Icon of Russian Modernity

Ernest A. Zitser

The Rise of Ruscism/Russism: Pro-War Contemporary Art in Russia and Its Genealogy

Nikolay Smirnov                                                                    

The Anatomy of Soviet and Nazi Power: Crucibles of Power Forum          

Jan Burzlaff                                                                            

The Smolensk Story

Elena Osokina                                                                        

Contribution to the Forum on Michael David-Fox, Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule

Jochen Hellbeck                                                                     

Power, Agency, and Modernity in Michael David-Fox’s Crucibles of Power

Anna Krylova                                                                        

Power, Ego-Documents, and Agency: Stalinism and Nazism in the Twenty-First Century

Michael David-Fox