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About Samantha Lomb
Dr. Lomb works at Vyatka State University in Kirov, Russia. She received her PhD in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. Her first book, Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution, was published in 2017. Currently she is working on a book manuscript about collective farm life in the 1930s. This year she published an article "Moscow is Far Away: Peasant Communal Traditions in the Expulsion of Collective Farm Members in the Vyatka–Kirov Region 1932–1939" in Europe Asia Studies which builds on this research.NBN Episodes hosted by Samantha:
March 14, 2026
Stalinism on Trial
Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War (Liverpool University Press, 2025) is a history of Communism and anti-Co…
November 11, 2025
The August Uprising, 1924
For three years following the Russian Revolution, the small South Caucasian country of Georgia was a democracy, but Stalin later ordered the Red Army …
June 4, 2025
Lost Souls
When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the …
August 31, 2024
Building Stalinism
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynthia Ruder explores how the building of the Moscow c…
October 21, 2023
Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev
How did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violence …
August 6, 2023
Building Socialism
By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Yiannis Kokosalakis' book Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the So…
May 18, 2022
The Moderate Bolshevik
Charters Wynn's book The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 (Brill, 2022) is an English-language biography …
February 18, 2022
Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom
Timothy Blauvelt’s book Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba (Routledge, 2021), explores the complexity…
December 8, 2021
Place and Nature
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (White Horse Press, 2021) is a collection of essays on environmental history spanning primar…
November 9, 2021
Revolutions in International Law
In 1917, the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution and the October Revolution shook the foundations of international order in profound, …
June 3, 2021
Revising the Revolution
The clash between scholarship and politics—between truth and propaganda— had always been a conflict of great importance. In the 1920s the Commission f…
November 2, 2020
Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union
Starting after the Second World War and taking the story through to the Brezhnev era, Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk's Substate Dictatorship: Netwo…
September 4, 2020
Red Wave
Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground (Doppelhouse Press, 2020) is Joanna Stingray’s autobiographical account of her time on the under…
June 30, 2020
Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
Most Gulag scholarship focuses on political prisoners and, as a result, our knowledge of the camps as a lived experience remains relatively incomplete…
June 2, 2020
The Night of the Bayonets
Eric Lee's new book The Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945 (Greenhill Books, 2020) tells the story of the …
November 22, 2019
Stalin’s Master Narrative
In this interview, David Brandenberger discusses his new edited volume (created in concert with RGASPI archivist and Russian historian Mikhail Zelenov…
September 11, 2019
Corn Crusade
In Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, 2018), Aaron Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khru…
August 5, 2019
War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power
Larry Holmes’ book, which first appeared in English in 2012, was released in Russian this year. In War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power: The Cen…
July 31, 2019
Voices from the Soviet Edge
In his new book, Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow (Cornell University Press, 2019), Jeff Sahadeo looks at the mi…
May 7, 2019
Roving Revolutionaries
In her newest book, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian and Ottoman Worlds (University of Californ…
February 15, 2019
Eurasian Environments
Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, had produced a new edited volume, Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in I…
November 12, 2018
Nomads and Soviet Rule
In his new book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the understudied experiences of…
October 4, 2018
It’s Only a Joke, Comrade!
Jonathan Waterlow’s new book It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life Under Stalin (1928-1941) (CreateSpace, 2018) delves into the p…
August 16, 2018
Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism
In her new book, Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Olga Velika…