Amid everything else, a brief note to announce the CFP for the 2026 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia.
If you are an economist, historian, or political scientist working on Imperial Russia or the USSR, please consider applying.
July 17–18, Paris.
For the Cold War History journal, I reviewed Michael de Groot's new book on the economic reasons for the demise of the Soviet Union, "Disruption: the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War". You can check out the review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In rankings that prioritize current research output, Chinese universities now completely dominate the global top 10. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
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For the JHI Blog's Forum on political economy, Véronique Mickisch critiques the continued association of "Marxism in practice” with the First Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union and raises the need to recover the work of Marxist thinkers violently suppressed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
