Welcome to H-Russia, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online. H-Russia encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet studies and history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research, and teaching aids.
I am pleased to inform you that The International Newsletter n°4 of The Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies CERCEC (October 2019) is now available on-line at https://mailchi.mp/3cfa036c3f6d/cercec-international-newsletter-n4-october-2019
International and pluridisciplinary conference
Long-distance business and cross-continental commerce have by nature of their transactional cost required capital investment and logistical forethought that outstripped those of more localized trade, often the model for our understanding of trade relations.
Monash University is pleased to announce the second opportunity to apply for the Ada Booth Research Fellowship in Slavic Studies based at Monash University Library in Melbourne, Australia.
www.balticorthodoxy.com is an online resource portal run by Dr James White (Ural Federal University/University of Tartu) and Dr Irina Paert (University of Tartu). Please see the description below for aims, scope, and funding information. On the website, you will find a variety of resources on the history of Orthodoxy in the Baltic region, including biographies, a time line, interactive maps, primary sources (both translations and downloadable originals), historical photographs and maps, videos, and further reading.
The Jack, Joseph, and Monton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) announces the 2020 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar: Between Enemy Combatant and Racial ‘Other’: Nazi Persecution of Soviet POWs. This year’s Seminar will explore Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) as one of the many victim groups that the Nazis deliberately persecuted in their campaign on the Eastern Front.
ASPIRANTUM -School of languages and cultures invites international participants to apply and take part in Russian language winter school to be organized from December 1 till December 21, 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia.
This 21 days’ winter school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Russian, reading and interpreting Russian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in colloquial Russian.
American Councils is pleased to announce the opening of a new competition cycle for the fully-funded Academic Fellowships in Russia. Provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Councils Academic Fellowships in Russia program (AFR) will support U.S.
I am pleased to inform you that The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies issue 19 devoted to "The Evolution of Prisons and Penality in the Former Soviet Union" is now available on-line (free access!): https://journals.openedition.org/pipss/4421
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Gavin Slade
Unpacking Prison Reform in the Former Soviet Union [Full text]
