Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social Former ambassador of Belgium (ret.) to Ukraine (2011-2014) and Colombia (2017-2021). Memories of Soviet tanks are part of my Czech roots (remember 21.8.1968 ?) Here mainly to denounce Putin's war on 🇺🇦. @DefendDemocracy team member 🇪🇺
Max Planck Law @maxplancklaw.bsky.social With over 400 researchers, 20 Directors, and 8 Institutes across Germany, Max Planck Law is one of the world's largest networks for legal research.
PLinLatvia @plinlatvia.bsky.social
@andrejsjudins.bsky.social @andrejsjudins.bsky.social
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
@saeima.bsky.social @saeima.bsky.social
Liene RR @lienera.bsky.social pētniece
tiesību zinātne, valsts pārvalde, sociālā antropoloģija
intereses: varas struktūra, radošums, daudzsugu etnogrāfija
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University.
Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Botakoz Kassymbekova @kassymbekova.bsky.social Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.
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
Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Waterloo (Canada); visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin (Poland); and author of Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century (Polity, 2022).
www.alexlanoszka.com
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Arturs Logins @alogins.bsky.social A philosopher. Thinking about inquiry and inquiring about thinking. Author of a book on reasons at CUP http://tinyurl.com/y4f9kt9d Assistant Prof. ULaval. 🤷♂️
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)
Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social Historian of East-Central Europe, PhD. Author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians (2013). Director of Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
Maria Avdeeva @mariainkharkiv.bsky.social Security Expert | Amplifying Ukraine's Global Voice | Former Twitter Enthusiast
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).
Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
Immo Rebitschek @immorebitschek.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe, Stalinism, Soviet law & criminal justice, Russian imperial famine relief and humanitarianism... and the NBA (go Mavs 🏀!) @uni-jena.de
https://uni-jena.academia.edu/ImmoRebitschek
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Lorena De Vita @lorenadevita.bsky.social Working on reparations, memory & diplomacy • Associate Professor • History of International Relations • Utrecht University • Author of ISRAELPOLITIK
📚 https://tinyurl.com/yxj5x5xv
🎓 https://www.uu.nl/staff/LDeVita
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
Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social Historian | Int'l history, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at U. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World" | Views my own.
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe. Lover of random, untold histories. Explorer of the last days of state socialism.
ERC Project: Perestroika from Below
ZZF Potsdam, CEU Vienna
Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). Moral clarity enjoyer. Ally of Ukraine. Own views only. 🇪🇪
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
Julie Deschepper @juliedeschepper.bsky.social Cultural & art historian of (Post-)Soviet Russia
Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies - Utrecht University
(Post-)Socialist Heritage I Socialist Material Culture I Global Iconoclasm I Weaponization of Heritage in Ukraine
Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
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.
John M. Romero @romerojohnm.bsky.social Former bus driver, recovering punk rocker.
Historian and dad.
Christina Carroll @chcarroll.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
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
Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social Historian of East (Central) Europe at ZZF Potsdam
President of the German-Ukrainian Society (DUG)
Subscribe to my newsletter "After empire: Reconfiguring Eastern Europe" https://efdavies.substack.com
#StandWithUkraine
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
Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social Fighting Disinformation since 2022.
All soups: https://vatniksoup.com/
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
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
Andres Kasekamp @kasekamp.bsky.social Chair of Estonian Studies, U Toronto
Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social professor at the University of Texas at Austin, maphead, dog lover, Go Bills, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
Alex Yusupov @alexyus.bsky.social Director @ Russia Programme // Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, previously Myanmar-Afghanistan-Central Asia, со-ведущий «Канцлер и Бергхайн»
Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social Legal/Political Anthropology, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Lacan, Arendt
📙Rethinking Community in Myanmar https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/rethinking-community-in-myanmar
🖋️: statelessness, expert activism, listening
www.judithbeyer.com
private account
Clare Griffin @balalaichnitsa.bsky.social Brit abroad | historian and fiction writer | NA | Assoc Prof @ IUBloomington | Tweets #EarlyModern #Russia #GlobalHistory #MentalHealth | she/her
Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...
Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/
Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
Lelde Luika @leldeluika.bsky.social Political theory and thought, Baltic and Eastern European politics, (radical) democracy and representation.
https://medium.com/@lelde.luika
Mārtiņš Hiršs @mhirss.bsky.social Politikas PhD, NYU absolvents. Atšifrēju propagandu, vēlēšanas un lielvaru spēles cilvēku valodā.
Lauri Mälksoo @laurimalksoo.bsky.social Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia
Jussi Lassila @jplassila.bsky.social Russia expert, Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Views are my own.
Timo R. Stewart @timostewart.bsky.social Conflict, religion & politics from a historian's perspective.
Author: #LuvatunMaanLumo #ValterJuvelius #HistoriaKarttoina
Hiski Haukkala @haukkala.bsky.social Processor of international politics. Director, Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social History Professor
Comparative study of nationalism
Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
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
Sylvie Kauffmann @sylviekauffmann.bsky.social Journaliste Le Monde / Foreign Affairs Columnist Le Monde/ Contributing Opinion Writer FT / Auteur de "Les Aveuglés - Comment Berlin et Paris ont laissé la voie libre à la Russie" (Stock)
Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social historian and theatre curator | violence, body, the first world war, and the 1917 revolutions | Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union | also write about contemporary Ukrainian theatre | in theatre when not in the archives
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
Yuliya Yurchuk @yuliyayurchuk.bsky.social Historian. Intellectual history, memory, heritage, Ukraine.
Markian Dobczansky @dobczansky.bsky.social Historian of Soviet Ukraine. Michigander. O's fan in exile.
Latvijas Radio @latvijasradio.bsky.social Sabiedriskais medijs. Uzrunājam cilvēkus, lai veicinātu labāku dzīves kvalitāti, nodrošinot objektīvas, operatīvas un daudzveidīgas informācijas pieejamību.
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova @unaaleksandra.bsky.social China scholar. Running RSU China Studies Centre and LIIA Asia programme, King’s College London and MERICS affiliate, plus all things FIMI @DE-CONSPIRATOR
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social Historian of the Soviet Union and its successors, especially Russia. Hansen Chair in History University of Melbourne. Editor: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/soviet-and-post-soviet-history . Views my own. https://www.markedele.com
Laura Dean 🇱🇻🇺🇦 @lauradean.bsky.social Associate Professor of Government & International Affairs and Director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab at Augustana University (she/her) 🇱🇻🇺🇦
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
Guntis Vāveris @guntisvaveris.bsky.social Vēsturnieks arhīvā.
Doktora grāda pretendents.
"Nu tad ar vairogu vai uz tā".
Alise Zarina @alisezarina.bsky.social Filmmaker & Freelance Creative.
Between 🇱🇻 and 🇵🇹
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Nathaniel Powell @natkpowell.bsky.social Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Andrea Sauchelli @andreasauchelli.bsky.social Professor (Philosophy) @ Lingnan University, HKSAR. 🇪🇺
andreasauchelli.weebly.com
Aivars Ozoliņš @aivarsozolins.bsky.social Rakstu žurnālam Ir @zurnalsir.bsky.social
Lukas Wahden @wahden.bsky.social PhD in IR at SciencesPo Paris & Associate Fellow with the Russia Program at George Washington University. Author of the Arctic security newsletter 66° North on Substack. Writing about Russia, China, the polar regions, sometimes the seas and space.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Arto Sillanpää @artosillanpaa.bsky.social USA, Russia, propaganda, media, and subversion. Writer @ulkopolitist.fi
Kalvis Engīzers @kalvisengizers.bsky.social Lawyering. Humanising. He/him.
Toms Zariņš @zarinstoms.bsky.social Vēsturnieks, LU HZF pētnieks, redaktors | Comms at Progresīvie
Kristine Pfafr @kristinepf.bsky.social
Anna Žabicka, Dr.phil. @zabicka.bsky.social Anthropology of aging, care, & health equity.
I work across way too many institutions...
Opinions my own
Vjačeslavs Kaščejevs @slavavk.bsky.social Learning, teaching and researching all things physics. A.k.a. Vyacheslavs "Slava" Kashcheyevs and Вячеслав Кащеев. Professor @ Unviersity of Latvia
Dmitry Golubev @lastguru.net Sometimes sarcastic. IT expert, humanist, speaker. Sr. System Analyst (Utilities). toot.lv administrator (my toot.lv posts are bridged: @lastguru.toot.lv)
Ofēlija Spektore @handle.invalid Es stāstu par savu dzīvi, šizoafektīvajiem traucējumiem un citām mentālajām problēmām. Man nav kauna - par to drīkst runāt. Es gribu par to runāt.
Rinalds Gulbis @rinaldsgulbis.bsky.social Tikai personīgas domas
@unaunaunauna.bsky.social @unaunaunauna.bsky.social
Aidis Tomsons @aidistomsons.bsky.social žurnālists, Latvijas Radio1
Viesturs Ķerus @vkerus.bsky.social Latvijas Ornitoloģijas biedrības valdes priekšsēdētājs
Klāvs Sedlenieks @klavsse.toot.lv.ap.brid.gy Anthropology, state, kinship and many other things
[bridged from https://toot.lv/@klavsse on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Lolita Tomsone @lolita-tomsone.bsky.social Muzeji, kapiņi, rakstu darbi. Rīga - Jeruzaleme - Rīga
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. /Wolfgang Pauli/
PTimofejevs @pftimofejevs.bsky.social Political scientist based in Umeå, Sweden, with research interests in security and defence policy, Nordic and Central and Eastern European politics. In my leisure time, I study philosophy.
Jānis Zvērs @janiszvers.bsky.social Ikdienā TV3 Ziņas
Kristīne G.-Celma @kristinegc.bsky.social vēroju
Neila Krave @neilams.bsky.social Vēstures un politikas skolotāja.
Feministe un nacionāliste. Konservatīva sociāliste.
Jānis Pleps @jpleps.bsky.social Docents (-2025)
Jānis Sārts @janissarts.bsky.social Director StratCom Centre of Excellence