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Sam Hirst
@samueljhirst.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.
Having spent years rewriting a dissertation that was too narrowly focused on interwar Soviet-Turkish relations to make it more international, I am thrilled to have received the #AHA26 book prize in European international history. The list of past winners contains many of the works that inspired me.
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.
www.historians.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Having spent years rewriting a dissertation that was too narrowly focused on interwar Soviet-Turkish relations to make it more international, I am thrilled to have received the #AHA26 book prize in European international history. The list of past winners contains many of the works that inspired me.
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
🚨We’re hiring!🚨 Bilkent IR seeks two open-rank faculty: one open specialization, one in Historical IR / Historical Political Economy.
Deadline: Dec 15. Please reach out with any questions!
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Deadline: Dec 15. Please reach out with any questions!
Full ad: ir.bilkent.edu.tr?page_id=3396
#polisky #poliscijobs #poliscijobmarket #psjminfo #academicjobs
Two Open Rank Positions in International Relations
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October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
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Our (I & Alexander Morrison) article on Kars is out.
The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878
@routledgehistory.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social @mesutuyar.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social
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The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878
@routledgehistory.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social @mesutuyar.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social
journals.openedition.org/chreecc/15443
The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-...
On the morning of 25th June 1829, a young Russian poet gazed with awe at the supposedly impregnable Ottoman fortress of Kars, which had been captured by the Russian Army of the Caucasus just a year...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Our (I & Alexander Morrison) article on Kars is out.
The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878
@routledgehistory.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social @mesutuyar.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social
journals.openedition.org/chreecc/15443
The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878
@routledgehistory.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social @mesutuyar.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social
journals.openedition.org/chreecc/15443
Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.
The list of past winners includes many scholars whose works were inspiration for my own. I am honored that my book was chosen for this award.
Congratulations to Samuel J. Hirst, winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 with Oxford University Press.
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The list of past winners includes many scholars whose works were inspiration for my own. I am honored that my book was chosen for this award.
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Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, whose book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution won the @aseees.bsky.social's Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe!
Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0
Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0
October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, whose book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution won the @aseees.bsky.social's Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe!
Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0
Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0
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Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj
See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj
September 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj
See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj
Great article. (1/2)
In the September issue of the #AHR, Giuliana Chamedes provides a novel account of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) in “Unpaid Debts,” focusing on Jamaican activists and their efforts to redefine “socialist internationalism.”🗃️
Unpaid Debts: Socialist Internationalism and Jamaica’s Bid for a New International Economic Order
Abstract. “Unpaid Debts” provides a novel account of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), from the economic crises of the 1970s to the lost develop
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September 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Great article. (1/2)
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New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940'
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Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940*
Abstract. This article re-examines the international thought of British historian Robert W. Seton-Watson during a period of intense national and imperial t
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September 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940'
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Yıllar süren uzun bir yolculuğun sonunda yeni kitabımızın Ekim ayında @kronikkitap.bsky.social tarafından yayımlanacağını paylaşmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kitapta gökyüzünde bir anda belirip, muazzam bir enerjiyle parlayıp kayan bir yıldızın hikayesini anlattık, umarım beğenirsiniz.
August 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yıllar süren uzun bir yolculuğun sonunda yeni kitabımızın Ekim ayında @kronikkitap.bsky.social tarafından yayımlanacağını paylaşmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kitapta gökyüzünde bir anda belirip, muazzam bir enerjiyle parlayıp kayan bir yıldızın hikayesini anlattık, umarım beğenirsiniz.
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Considering discussing this essay on the first day of the semester in my class on Historical Research and Writing 🗃️
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
July 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Considering discussing this essay on the first day of the semester in my class on Historical Research and Writing 🗃️
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Congratulations Harrison King, 2025 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow!
“The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965”
buff.ly/wl2Qp6V
“The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965”
buff.ly/wl2Qp6V
July 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Congratulations Harrison King, 2025 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow!
“The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965”
buff.ly/wl2Qp6V
“The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965”
buff.ly/wl2Qp6V
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#History #SkyStorians Triple review klaxon! Andrew Peak on Samuel J. Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (OUP, 2024).
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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June 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#History #SkyStorians Triple review klaxon! Andrew Peak on Samuel J. Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (OUP, 2024).
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.
Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.
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Many thanks to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social for reviewing my book The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) in the #SlavicReview 83:4 W2024
doi.org/10.1017/slr.... ✨
#skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies
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#skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. x, 332 pp. No...
Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. x, 332 pp. No...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Many thanks to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social for reviewing my book The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) in the #SlavicReview 83:4 W2024
doi.org/10.1017/slr.... ✨
#skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies
doi.org/10.1017/slr.... ✨
#skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies
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My book Kars Province under Russian Rule is now available for pre-order from @routledgehistory.bsky.social
#KarsOblast #КарсскаяОбласть
www.routledge.com/Kars-Provinc...
#KarsOblast #КарсскаяОбласть
www.routledge.com/Kars-Provinc...
Kars Province under Russian Rule: Imperial Rivalry and Nation-Building in the Periphery, 1878-1918
This book analyses the borderland province (oblast) of Kars under Russian imperial rule from 1878 to 1918. It is a study of imperial expansion, inter-imperial rivalry, colonization, legal and administ...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My book Kars Province under Russian Rule is now available for pre-order from @routledgehistory.bsky.social
#KarsOblast #КарсскаяОбласть
www.routledge.com/Kars-Provinc...
#KarsOblast #КарсскаяОбласть
www.routledge.com/Kars-Provinc...
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Diplomatic History is now on Bluesky! Check out our April edition if you haven't already: academic.oup.com/dh/issue
Issues | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Diplomatic History is now on Bluesky! Check out our April edition if you haven't already: academic.oup.com/dh/issue
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Erdem Sönmez @erdemsonmez.bsky.social reviews 'Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939', by Samuel J. Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social
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Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939,, By Samuel J. Hirst
How did the Soviet Union and republican Turkey establish a statist partnership within the context of the liberal international order of the inter-war perio
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May 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Erdem Sönmez @erdemsonmez.bsky.social reviews 'Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939', by Samuel J. Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social
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Saying hi to Bluesky with my review of Samuel Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, just out in the English Historical Review enghistrev.bsky.social
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Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939,, By Samuel J. Hirst
How did the Soviet Union and republican Turkey establish a statist partnership within the context of the liberal international order of the inter-war perio
academic.oup.com
May 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Saying hi to Bluesky with my review of Samuel Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, just out in the English Historical Review enghistrev.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
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April 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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For those who want to make sense of how injustices by the incumbent toward the Istanbul mayor and toward the political opposition in general mobilize voters, our article with Tuğçe İnce just got assigned to an issue (open access)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What Leads to Voting Despite Intention to Abstain?: Emotions, Turnout, and Negative Campaigns in Turkish Elections | Review of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core
What Leads to Voting Despite Intention to Abstain?: Emotions, Turnout, and Negative Campaigns in Turkish Elections - Volume 57 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
April 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
For those who want to make sense of how injustices by the incumbent toward the Istanbul mayor and toward the political opposition in general mobilize voters, our article with Tuğçe İnce just got assigned to an issue (open access)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Yozgat izlenimleri: Yozgatlılar bu çapta mitingi 1983’te Özal, 2002’de Erdoğan yapabildi. Biz 50 yıldır CHP’yi burada görmedik dediler. CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu?
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Aposto | Yozgat'tan izlenimler: CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu?
Hayatın yavaş aktığı, 100 bin nüfuslu Yozgat; muhafazakar-milliyetçiliğin “kalesi”; siyasette ise yaprak kıpırdamayan bir şehirdi. Ta ki geçen aya kadar... Toplumsal meselelerde gerçekte yaşanan, ço...
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April 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Yozgat izlenimleri: Yozgatlılar bu çapta mitingi 1983’te Özal, 2002’de Erdoğan yapabildi. Biz 50 yıldır CHP’yi burada görmedik dediler. CHP'nin tarihî mitinginin ardından kentte neler konuşuldu?
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For those in Ankara this Thursday:
SEMINAR
Understanding the First Muslim Communists of Central Asia:
Anticolonialism and the Politics of Muslim Solidarity in the Age of the Russian Revolution
by
Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
Date: 10 April 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
For more details…
Understanding the First Muslim Communists of Central Asia:
Anticolonialism and the Politics of Muslim Solidarity in the Age of the Russian Revolution
by
Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
Date: 10 April 2025, Thursday
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room
Time: 16:30
For more details…
April 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
For those in Ankara this Thursday:
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Yeni yazım.
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Suriye’de Esad sonrası dönemde Türkiye-İran İlişkileri: Belirsizlik ve gerilim - Fikir Turu
Suriye’deki durum Türkiye-İran ilişkilerini nasıl etkiliyor ve etkileyecek? İran Suriye’de neler yapabilir? İran Suriye’den tamamıyla vazgeçer mi? Suriye’nin yeni yönetimiyle İran arasında nasıl bir i...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yeni yazım.
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