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I saw a post yesterday about how a lot of Western people don’t every know about Russification policies of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. This is pretty much true, as most history classes in history rarely focus on anything east of the Danube.

So, I’ve uploaded a bunch of academic articles relevant to such subjects. Be warned that this can include discussion of ethnic cleansing.

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midnightmuses301

𝐼𝒻 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌, 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒱𝒶𝓁𝒹𝒶𝓇𝑜…

trainingseasons

2025 is like if you were awake during surgery

speciesbarocus

Rubens - The Entombment (c. 1612). Detail.

dumbbitchhour

Franz Kline, Black and White, c. 1956 x

rudjedet

Something must be wrong with me, I haven't talked about the beadnet dress in forever.

It consists of seven thousand faience beads in blue green and blue to imitate turquoise and lapis lazuli. It is 4600 years old (the threading is modern, but the beads were found in their original pattern so this reconstruction is as accurate as it can be). It is one of the most gorgeous garments in existence and was owned by a woman who was a contemporary of king Khufu.