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Siobhán Hearne

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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).

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Feb 25

My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 8d

Glad you enjoyed! Beatrice’s book is fantastic

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 8d

Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...

Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan

Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...

www.peripheralhistories.co.uk

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 9d

🧵 In CEH's first digest (tinyurl.com/38p3yxky), our six editors each highlighted a recent article they have particularly enjoyed working on.

This thread showcases these articles and explores why our editors made their selections. ⬇️ [1/7]

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 12d

I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea

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Nicole Harry @nicolerharry.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share my short piece on Soviet Lithuanian priests studying at the Vatican and their role in religious and diplomatic policy of the early 1960s! Thank you to @peripheralhist.bsky.social as well for the platform to do so. t.co/OOUz7xtn6U

https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/red-priests-in-the-holy-city-vatican-ostpolitik-informants-and-soviet-lithuanian-priests-in-the-c

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 16d

It was my first time there and I absolutely loved it!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 16d

Back to reality after a brilliant couple of weeks at the National Archives of Armenia. Trying to convince myself that I love the understated beauty of the UK in autumn, rather than fantasising about sunshine and mountains.

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Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social · 21d

Delighted to have an article on the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga famine campaign as part of this special issue of
@conteurohistory.bsky.social Available open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks so much, Alila!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 5

I couldn’t have done it without your help!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks so much for your kind words and support!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks so much!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you so much!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!

Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Isabelle DeSisto 🇺🇦 @isadesisto.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tere! I'm in Estonia 🇪🇪 at Uni of Tartu Skytte Institute for 2 months researching the intergenerational effects of Soviet repression. I'm interviewing Estonians whose family experienced deportation/other repression. Interested? Please DM me, email [email protected] & share widely. Aitäh!

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · Aug 1

The CEH editors have started a digest in which we share news & choose an article that we have particularly enjoyed working on recently. My pick was Tereza Juhászová’s excellent ‘Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery'. Find the digest here: tinyurl.com/try6n599

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