A roundtable on Jeff Sahadeo’s Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow

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Notes

1. Millar, “The Little Deal,” 697.

2. Suny, Revenge of the Past.

3. Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire. Specifically on “friendship of the peoples,” see 432–61.

4. Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, 102–14.

5. Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling, 129. See also Sahadeo, Voices from the Soviet, 124–26.

6. Rosenwein, “Worrying about Emotions”; and Rosenwein, Emotional Communities. For Sahadeo’s use of the concept, see his Voices from the Soviet, 36, 56, and passim.

7. See Boym, The Future of Nostalgia.

8. See, for example, Bocharnikova and Harris, “Second World Urbanity”; and Mark, Kalinovsky, and Marung, Alternative Globalizations.

9. For a good summary of the discussion, see Etkind, “Soviet Subjectivity.”

10. Chatterjee and Petrone, “Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity.”

11. Fainberg and Kalinovsky, Reconsidering Stagnation.

12. Raleigh, Soviet Baby Boomers.

13. See, for example, Duhamel, The KGB Campaign.

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James Krapfl

James Krapfl is an associate professor of history at McGill University and the editor of Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes. He is the author of Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013).

Sarah Cameron

Sarah Cameron is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park and the author of The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press, 2018).

Adeeb Khalid

Adeeb Khalid is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. His books include The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (University of California Press, 1998); Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (University of California Press, 2007); and Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Cornell University Press, 2015).

Denis Kozlov

Denis Kozlov is an associate professor of history at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past (Harvard University Press, 2013).

Jeff Sahadeo

Jeff Sahadeo is a professor of history at Carleton University. In addition to Voices from the Soviet Edge, he is the author of Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923. He also co-edited Everyday Life in Central Asia, Past and Present with Russell Zanca (Indiana University Press, 2007).