Severyan Dyakonov
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Severyan Dyakonov
@severyandyakonov.bsky.social
Historian of Soviet internationalism. USSR-India relations/International Red Cross movement/Soviets in International Organizations/digital humanities for historians.
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My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
#CfP for PhD/ECR: Across the Bamboo Curtain: Econ, Polit, and Tech Exchanges Between East and West During the Cold War, 1950s-1970s
Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2026
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Organized by: Yi Liu, Ziru Yang, Karina Khasnulina, and me
Img: British airplane in China, 1961
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
From the conference on social history students organizations.
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Auditing a conference on student organizations "Tackling Cold War Student Organizations though Social History," UniFr Nov 21. Constantin Katsakioris has presented on nationalist and ethnic tensions among students from Africa and the Middle East during studies at Soviet universities.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A little report on my first digitization project. So I completed making pictures of each page of the archive for Ukrainian Red Cross Abroad, 1939-45. You see it all in the box. It took me six working days. Now the new step - text recognition and playing with AI tools for research output.
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
For those who study Societ history - Reimagining Soviet Gerogia is a podcast with the participation of scholars talking about their research. Thank you Bryan and Sopiko for inviting me! Look up for the long list of previous series!

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Episode 59: The Soviet Red Cross, Socialist Humanitarianism and India with Severyan Dyakonov
Podcast Episode · Reimagining Soviet Georgia · 10/17/2025 · 1h 1m
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October 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Coming soon...
October 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened!
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel!
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July 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How great it was doing my BA in Paris and having all year free access to #Louvre. A new discovery during vacation.
July 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reposted by Severyan Dyakonov
Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed
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July 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.
July 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thank you for organizing the panel!
#ECAS2025, where @alilacandonga.bsky.social and I had wonderful two panels on medical socialist entanglements between Eastern Europe and Africa, including, among others, @severyandyakonov.bsky.social. Also heard some excellent talks on veterans, memory of anti-colonial wars and public health!
June 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
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June 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our panel on Medical Socialist Entanglements is at 11 15, ground floor 011, #ECAS2025. Bidemi Balogun, Sarah Howard, me.
June 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.
June 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025
June 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ok, on y va. #ECAS #ECAS2025 European Conference on African Studies. Prague.
June 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research!
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I want to announce my #YouTube channel where I will post videos and audio recordings I am making and repost relevant history related posts from colleagues.

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June 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
June 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you are part of Slavic studies don't miss this discussion on Revisionism.
"In this panel historians Sheila Fitzpatrick, Anna Krylova, Lewis Siegelbaum, and Ronald Suny gather to discuss the history and legacy of the "revisionist turn."

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Remembering Revisionism - Black Sheep Society Webinar (May 2, 2025)
YouTube video by Black Sheep Society
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May 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Reposted by Severyan Dyakonov
"Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s" a new post on the CNHH website by @severyandyakonov.bsky.social , post-doctoral fellow @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/project-on-t... ‪@ifrc.org‬ ‪@icrc.org‬ ‪@icrclibrary.bsky.social‬
May 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
May 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM