Rachael Haslam @rachaelhaslam.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD at the University of York |
Medieval trust, distrust and local networks | she/her
Erzsébet Árvay @arv-er.bsky.social Historian, researcher, educator.
Louise Ingham @louiseingham.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies at Routledge
✉️ Louise.Ingham@tandf.co.uk
All views are my own
https://linktr.ee/louiseingham
Alison K. Smith @profaks.bsky.social (Russian) history prof at the University of Toronto and (very) occasional blogger at russianhistoryblog.org. Mostly posts things from research and teaching. She/her.
Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social Researching history of refugees and the Vatican in the early Cold War
www.katarzyna-nowak.com
Uni of Vienna
Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social Ottakringerin & Historian of late Habsburg Monarchy * University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna * https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/scheer/
Anja Krüger @anjakundler.bsky.social Europäerin und Berlinerin | Kommunikationskoordinatorin @ZOiSBerlin | parent
Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
Mirjam Galley @megalley.bsky.social Historian and editor for history and heritage at transcript academic publishing (Bielefeld, GER). PhD in Soviet history from The University of Sheffield. Berliner. Likes people, music, cats, food & going outside. she/her
University of Southampton History Department @historyatsoton.bsky.social History at the University of Southampton, where staff and students, past, present and future discuss history. southampton.ac.uk/study/subjects/history
Steve Barnes @stevebarnes.bsky.social Russian and Soviet History, Ukraine deserves to be free, History of Gulag, concentration camps, mass detention, everyone should try to mitigate Covid risks
Meduza in English @meduza.io Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law @UCL
Public international law, children’s rights, forced migration, treaties, Ukraine
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/84647-yulia-ioffe
Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Simon Huxtable @shux.bsky.social Historian of global media and socialism / Researcher on Connecting 3 Worlds project / Improviser / Pawn pusher 
Elizabeth Harrison @corardens.bsky.social
Nature, heritage and landscape enthusiast based in Devon. Also sews and knits. Has a doctorate (from SSEES) in something else.
Writing:
https://deepdownthings.substack.com/
WWII Siberian Exile @polishodyssey.bsky.social Writing about the Soviet deportations of Polish citizens and the trajectories of military and civilian exile
@dakotairvin.bsky.social @dakotairvin.bsky.social 
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Natasha Kuhrt @natashakuhrt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Co-founder, co-Convenor BISA WG East European/Eurasian security. Research interests: Russian foreign,security policy esp Russia-China. Nationalism. Genocide. International Law. Peacekeeping
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social Home to the University of Oxford's community of Intellectual Historians | Follow us for updates on events, publications & more | intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, organising research projects, fellowships and public events. Affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Alexander Kruska @akruska.bsky.social Political Science @FAU.de📍Nürnberg 📚 History of Political Thought • Teacher education • Politikwissenschaftler in der Lehrkräftebildung • www.linkedin.com/in/akruska
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting 
Oleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, Comintern, Russia's War in Ukraine; professor at Western University and King's University College. www.oleksadrachewych.com
Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Erik R. Scott @erikrscott.bsky.social Historian of Russia, the Caucasus, and the world during the Cold War and after. Editor of The Russian Review. Author of Defectors. 
Orel Beilinson @orelb.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe in its Eurasian context. Education, youth, social structure, and family life. Comparative and transnational history. PhD, Yale; currently a postdoc fellow at the Polonsky Academy.
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
Fabian Baumann @fabianbaumann.bsky.social Historian of Eastern and East Central Europe, University of Basel. Nationalism and family in late imperial Ukraine; democracy, treason and disloyalty in interwar Czechoslovakia. "Dynasty Divided" out now: https://tinyurl.com/3m6e5f9d
Stephen Bittner @russianhistoryprof.bsky.social Author and professor of Russian and Soviet esoterica | Michigander turned Californian | posts about Russia, Ukraine, NHL, wine, higher ed | Special Topics Editor at Kritika
Kristy Ironside @kristyironside.bsky.social 
Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social Brit abroad | historian and fiction writer | NA | Assoc Prof @ IUBloomington | Tweets #EarlyModern #Russia #GlobalHistory #MentalHealth | she/her
Oleksandr Polianichev @opolianichev.bsky.social Historian of Tsarist Russia at Södertörn University, Stockholm | URIS Fellow at @unibas.ch | Colonial and transimperial history | Ph.D. from @eui-eu.bsky.social
Nicole Eaton @nicoleeaton.bsky.social Historian at Boston College
communism, fascism, nationalism
USSR, Germany, Balkans to Baltics
book: GERMAN BLOOD, SLAVIC SOIL
http://bit.ly/3wdaGkk
Deeply skeptical of social media - just here to watch you all fight it out
Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social Historian of Russian/Soviet Health and Med. Pushkin House Prize nominee for Cigarettes and Soviets. Shortlisted for Smoking under the Tsars. Now researching Russian male health. Opinions my own/not my employers.
Jonathan Z Ludwig @jonathanzludwig.bsky.social Researches/writes about spies, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Taiwan, and foreign language education/national security policy. Owner/author of www.viewsfromtheheartland.com.
Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social Historian | International history, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at Univ. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," now working on Shi'a Islamism | Views my own.
Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
John M. Romero @romerojohnm.bsky.social Former bus driver, recovering punk rocker.
Historian and dad.
Maike Lehmann @maikelehmann.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe with a focus on the multiethnic Soviet Union and transnational encounters during the Late Cold War. Formerly
@JahrbuecherJGO and a few universities
Douglas Selvage @deselv.bsky.social Independent Historian. Expert on Soviet-bloc history, active measures, Stasi and KGB. RT does not mean endorsement. Views are mine, not those of my employer.
Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social Historian working on Soviet collapse. Author of "Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." (OUP, 2023)
Researcher at the University of Helsinki🇫🇮
From Latvia 🇱🇻🇪🇺
Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social Doctor of History at LSE International History. Freeman of the Glaizers. Book Failure of Russian Democratic Transition 1990-1993 coming in 2028. I use to live in DC and do geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him
Lauren Warner-Treloar @lwarnertreloar.bsky.social Art historian, Translator, Curator | Ukrainian & East European Print Culture, Graphic Design & Book History | BASU Co-Chair, Arts & Culture Working Group
🔗 See my latest work on Lodestar East - https://lwarnertreloar.substack.com
Pia Koivunen @piakoivunen.bsky.social PhD, Senior lecturer in European and World history @UniTurku, Finland.
Chair of Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies @FAREES
Russia, Cold War, mega-events, youth & student organisations, oral history, memory politics & museums.
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social somewhere between the dead and the living / lapsed historian of the russian 20th century / translator ru↔eng / nyc / everything is forever until it is no more
Ionut Biliuta @ionutbiliuta.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe focused especially on Romania, Greece, and Moldova. I am interested in studying the region through lenses such as antisemitism, the Holocaust, (neo-)fascism, and the impact of Orthodox Churches on local societies. Bookhoarder!
The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social Making an audio documentary about Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known Black American victim of Stalin's Terror.
"Nothing of them is left over except the same ghostly objecthood—a bare gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor."--Marx, Capital.
Botakoz Kassymbekova @kassymbekova.bsky.social Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.
Matthäus Wehowski @mwehowski.bsky.social Historiker / research fellow (Ph.D). Hannh-Arendt Institut für Totalitarismusforschung. Schwerpunkt Polen, Sowjetunion/Russland, Ukraine. Mikroblogs zu Osteuropa. Verbringe meine Freizeit mit Büchern.
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe at Oregon State University. Writing about incarcerated youth in France, Russia, Ukraine, teaching is life!
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com
Josh Sanborn @jsanborn.bsky.social Historian. Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. Currently working on spies, scientists, and Cold War fictions. - J Jeffrey Veidlinger @jveidlinger.bsky.social Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. Author of “In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1922 in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust”
Catherine Gibson @catherinegibson.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe at the University of Tartu working on intra-imperial solidarities (ERC-EMPSOLID https://empsolid.ee/) and entanglements (ETAG https://sisu.ut.ee/entangledborderlands/). Author of Geographies of Nationhood (OUP 2022).
Nicolè (Nik) Ford @drnikford.bsky.social Professor PhD Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Belarus, Chechnya🐺, Democracy, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, terrorism & political violence, identity. USMC. she/her/hers. #polisky #eusky #comparativesky слава Україні🇺🇦 words @FP, WaPo, Defense Post, etc
Joseph Kusluch @josephkusluch.bsky.social Political Science Professor
@UNC_Colorado. PhD from Kent State.
Joan Neuberger @jayneu.bsky.social Retired prof living it up in NYC.
History/Film/Digital/
Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis.
Gimme some acoustic blues.
She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
Edward Cohn @edward-cohn.bsky.social historian of the Soviet Union, surveillance, and the secret police; curriculum and pedagogy nerd with a passion for the liberal arts 
Anna Colin Lebedev @colinlebedev.cpesr.fr Enseignante chercheuse en science politique @ U Paris Nanterre. Russie, Ukraine, guerre. Quitte définitivement X le 20/1/25. colinlebedev.fr
Nicholas Morrison @nicholasmm.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Maryland | Interested in histories of rivers and lakes in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social Official account of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture.
https://SHERA-art.org
Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social Historian. Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.
https://www.samueljhirst.com
Peter Blitstein @pblitstein.bsky.social Provost and Dean of Faculty at Lawrence University. Scholar of Russian history. 
Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social Associate Professor in War Studies at Swedish Defence University, (post-)Soviet wars.
Fran Hirsch @franhirsch.bsky.social Historian. Author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg and Empire of Nations. Currently writing and teaching courses about the history of Russian-American entanglement. 
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum @lakirsch.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. International communism, the Spanish civil war, transnational networks, gender, war & memory, childhood. Never pass up unusual travel opportunities.
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher : USSR, Georgia, South Caucasus and Eurasia.
Co-producer: Reimagining Soviet Georgia https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reimagining-soviet-georgia/id1555761205
Lecturer @ Georgian-American University, Tbilisi.
Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. History of Russia, communism, two world wars, and the cold war. Economics of fighting, stealing, cheating, lying, and spying. Home page at http://warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/
Julie deGraffenried @drdegraff.bsky.social Historian of Mod Russia/USSR: childhood, war, visual culture, religion; digital history learner.
Baylor (Sic ‘em) • 🪑
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Donnacha Ó Beacháin @donnachadcu.bsky.social Professor of Politics, Dublin City University (DCU)
Ukraine | Russian imperialism | South Caucasus | Central Asia | Belarus | Moldova | unrecognised states | Irish history, politics and foreign policy
MStewart @thinkingtooloud.org Product of Southern Appalachia. (Meat Camp, NC)
writer, reader, a.k.a. ThinkingTooLoud
Too many projects not enough time.
#writer #author #WritingCommunity #querying #SFF #DVPit #neurodivergent #CPTSD #ComplexPTSD
I don't answer random DMs
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social Professor of History. Russia/USSR/IR/War. Author: Russian and Soviet Diplomacy; Russia’s International Relations in the 20th Century. Wargamer. Has a famous game cart he takes to class.
Charlotte Alston @lottiealston.bsky.social Professor in History at Northumbria University. Works on Russian emigration, revolution, Tolstoyans, and Anglo-Russian connections
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social Historian and postdoc at UCD. I have worked on (sub)urban history, violence and spaces of belonging. Currently contributing to an environmental history of the Russian empire.
https://people.ucd.ie/antoni.porayski-pomsta/about
Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social Historian. Boğaziçi University.
Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social history & intellectual history | legal history & theory | political & economic thought | 19–20th c. philosophy & theory | marx
formulating a PhD project, 在学习中文
Hank Reichman @hankreichman.bsky.social Former AAUP Vice-President; Former Chair AAUP Committee A; Author, The Future of Academic Freedom (Johns Hopkins U. P., 2019); Understanding Academic Freedom (JHUP, 2021, 2025). Prof. Emer., CSU East Bay. Historian of Russia/Soviet Union.
Lois Kalb @loiskalb.bsky.social PhD candidate at EUI. Working on late/post Soviet urban transformations, mass housing blocks & urban commons
Inna Shtakser @innash.bsky.social I am a historian of social movements in the Russian empire and an author of Palgrave published The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement: Community and Identity During the Russian Revolution and Its Immediate Aftermath, 1905–07.
East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social World's leading supplier of information resources from Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East since 1989. https://eastview.com
Bruce Berglund @beastofberglund.bsky.social Historian transplanted from Duluth to Prague | Teaching: Institute of International Studies, Charles Univ | New book: "The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused & Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power" | More: bruceberglund.net
Alun Thomas @alunrthomas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at University of Staffordshire. Interested in Central Asia and Russia. Chair of Staffs UCU branch.
Niccolò Pianciola @niccop.bsky.social Historian
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social Economist. Author of #TransitionEconomies. Work on open economy macro / development; econ hist; post-socialist; #diaspora economics || hiking || w: agevorkyan.com
HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social HPS.CESEE is an online platform about the history of science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Our aim is to facilitate the exchange of information among HPS scholars in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana.
Robert Kindler @robertkindler.bsky.social Historian @FU Berlin
Dr Ivan Simic @ivansimic.bsky.social Edmontonian, amateur climber, knitter, cat lover, and then some other things.
Historian, Charles University, Prague | PhD in History, University College London. SSEES | he/him
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon @ksvarnon.bsky.social Historian of Russia, Ukraine, the USSR, and East Germany.
Assistant Professor at Morehouse College.
Writer and Foreign Policy Commentator with Regional Expertise.
Texan. Perpetually behind PhD Candidate.
Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)
Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
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).
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs