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A massive fire that broke out on Friday evening has destroyed the building housing one of Moscow’s major research libraries and unique collections of social science and humanities documentation. It has been reported that an electrical fault caused the fire…
My chapter ‘Contesting Inequality: Khrushchev and the Revival of the “Woman Question”’ has recently been published in a volume on essays edited by colleagues in Germany: Thomas M. Bohn, Rayk Einax and Michel Abeβer (eds), De-Stalinisation Reconsidered: Persistence and Change…
My latest collection of essays, co-edited with Katalin Miklossy (University of Helsinki, Finland) was published by Routledge in August. The book is one of the outcomes of a three-year international collaborative project funded by the Academy of Finland from 2010…
I was in Dublin at the end of last week for a conference on Soviet healthcare in comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the issues of ‘professionalization, gender and care’. Although I have done a good deal of work…
Second in our series of video profiles is Professor Melanie Ilic, our Professor in Soviet History and a long-standing member of the history team here at Gloucestershire. In conversation with Dave Webster, Subject Group Leader for Religious, Philosophical and Historical…
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya, author of the infamous April 1983 Novosibirsk Report, died recently in Moscow. Zaslavskaya was born in Kiev in 1927. After the Second World War, she studied physics and then economics at the Moscow State University, graduating in…
Just a short train journey from Cheltenham, Europe’s biggest library opened in Birmingham at the beginning of September 2013. I went to visit the library with former UG Head of Library Services, Ann Mathie, on its opening weekend. It’s certainly…
Melanie Ilic has had two major pieces of research published over the summer. Life Stories of Soviet Women: the Interwar Generation (Routledge, 2013) is the culmination of several years’ work examining the everyday lives of eight women living in Soviet…
8 July 2013 saw the death of a Soviet heroine, Nadezhda Vasil’evna Popova, at the age of 91. Nadezhda Popova was just one of hundreds of Soviet airwomen who flew combat planes during the Second World War and have subsequently…