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➡️ "Russian Expeditionary Force in memory and commemoration: comparative case-study of Soviet Russia and Russian emigration in France"
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Russian Expeditionary Force in memory and commemoration: comparative case-study of Soviet Russia and Russian emigration in France

The interest in Russian memory of the First World War grew significantly in the last ten years. Karen Petrone’s breakthrough book The Great War in Russian Memory has done a remarkable service to th...

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 6h

Both on Taylor & Francis! @tandfresearch.bsky.social

➡️ “Soldiers of Russia”: Veterans of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France and USSR, 1917–1975
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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 6h

Dr Anisimova is currently based at University College Dublin as an ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her work explores the Russian Civil War and its connections to the wider conflict of the First World War.

Below are two of her works that have been published in the journal. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 6h

🎉 We are delighted to announce that Dr Sofya Anisimova (@sdanisimova.bsky.social) has been elected President of the International Society for First World War Studies starting in January! 🧵

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Today at the International Society for First World War Studies Conference in Thessaloniki, join us for a Q&A session on the First World War Studies journal. this is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in knowing more about the journal itself!

🕚 Time: 11:15 – 11:45 (October 2nd)

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 7d

➡️ Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social (Associate Editor) – The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930

Draws on a dataset of nearly 1,500 books to map the interwar publishing boom, revealing how competing visions of the war shaped cultural memory.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 7d

➡️ Yücel Yanıkdağ – Ottoman and Turkish Exception(alism): States of Exception in Turkey, 1909–1927

Examines how emergency powers became the norm across late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey, targeting internal “enemies” and redefining the state’s authority.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 7d

➡️ Heather Jones (Editorial Board Member) – Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone?

A major essay review reflecting on how centenary publications have reshaped Ireland’s divided understanding of its decade of war and revolution.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 7d

📝Here are a couple works you can take a look at, all available on @Taylor & Francis:

➡️ Hew Strachan – The First World War as a global war

Shows how the conflict widened from a European to a global struggle, shaped by empires, finances, and national decisions, with consequences to this day.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 7d

📢 🧵 This year the International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social is hosting a conference in the University of Macedonia! If you can't attend in person, you can still take a look at the work that has been published in First World War Studies by some of this week's speakers.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 9d

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

We’re very excited to share that First World War Studies Volume 16, Issue 2 was recently published and is now available from Taylor & Francis (tag). This new issue brings together fresh perspectives and critical reviews that push forward the study of the Great War.

📝Articles include: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

3) Cai Lyons’ review of Kimberly Francis & Margot Irvine’s “Creative Women of the ‘Lost Generation’: Women in the Arts in the Wake of the Great War”--- Published: 2023, @routledgehistory.bsky.social

➡️ Explore the full issue here!: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...

First World War Studies

Volume 16, Issue 2 of First World War Studies

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

2) Krisztina Robert review of Maude Bass-Krueger’s “Fashion, Society, and the First World War: International Perspectives” — published: 2022, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

1) Matthew Stibbe’s review of Perry Anderson’s “Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War” — Published: 2024, @versobooks.bsky.social

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

📚Additionally, the new issue also includes 27 interesting book reviews including topics ranging from Britain’s interactions with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, all the way to the performance Shakespeare’s work during the war.

Here are a few that might be of interest:⬇️⬇️⬇️

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

“‘The War was a Great Link’: German First World War Commemorations in Interwar Tanganyika.” by Willeke Sandler

➡️This article explores how German First World War commemorations in interwar Tanganyika fostered reconciliation with the British while sidelining African soldiers’ roles.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

“Supporting the Core of Our Nation: Emilia Węsławska and Relief for the Elite, 1914–1915.” by Andrea Griffante

➡️This article uncovers the wartime relief work of Emilia Węsławska, who founded a committee in Vilnius to support displaced Polish intellectuals and skilled workers.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

“Not Soldiers from a Soldier’s Point of View: The British Army Service Corps and the Boundaries of Martial Masculinities, 1914–1918” by Thomas P. Stephens

➡️This work examines the Army Service Corps to show how non-combatant and caregiving roles complicated ideas of masculinity, race, and gender.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

“Anglican army chaplains’ responses to prostitution on the Western Front, 1914–1919” by James Earnshaw.

➡️This article explores how Anglican Army chaplains responded to prostitution during the First World War.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 11d

We’re very excited to share that First World War Studies Volume 16, Issue 2 was recently published and is now available from Taylor & Francis (tag). This new issue brings together fresh perspectives and critical reviews that push forward the study of the Great War.

📝Articles include: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 6

Delighted to see this announcement of the forthcoming Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, a prize awarded annually by @fwwsoc.bsky.social and eventually to be published in our journal

Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · Sep 5

This year's remembrance lecture at Edinburgh Napier marks, as always, Craiglockhart's First World War links(the meeting place of Owen and Sassoon) and our late colleague Catherine Walker. This year it is also the @fwwsoc.bsky.social Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, given by @juliarsct.bsky.social.

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

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