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Kazan, Russia: Formerly the seat of the Khanate of Kazan, the city was conquered in 1552 by Ivan the Terrible. See Dr. Platt's current book project Terrible and Great: Ivan IV and Peter I, as Russian Myths.

Samara, Russia: Professor Yakubovich's study explores the role of formal institutions and informal networks in shaping the local labor market in the late 1990s.

Turkish Armenia: See Dr. Holquist's current book project By Right of War, that investigates the conduct of the Russian army in Turkish Armenia during WWI.

Austrian Galica: See Dr. Holquist's current book project By Right of War, that investigates the conduct of the Russian army in Galicia during WWI.

St. Petersburg Russia, Capital of the Russian Empire: See Dr. Holquist's book Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia 's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921.

Vilnius, Lithuania. Dr. Verkholantsev’s book Ruthenica Bohemica discusses fifteenth-century Ruthenian translations from Czech that may be associated with the proselytizing activity of the Czech and Croatian Catholic monks among Orthodox Ruthenians.

Vitebsk, present-day Belarus, a major Jewish commercial and cultural center in the Pale of Settlement. Dr. Nathan's book Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia offers a history of Jews in and outside of the Pale.

Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, formerly capital of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Steiner's book The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context presents the history of Czech fiction during the twentieth century.

Senj, Croatia. Dr. Verkholantsev’s current book project The Slavic Idea and the Cross deals with the history of the Croatian Benedictine Glagolite monks and their activity in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Bohemia and Poland.

Chernobyl, Ukraine: Dr. Petryna’s first book, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl describesthe vexed scientific and social circumstances that followed the Chernobyl disaster.

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