Patrick Kinville
Soviet history, mostly military and political.
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When Tolstoy Challenged Turgenev to a Duel
In May 1861, during an otherwise pleasant morning at Stepanovka, Afanasy Fet’s country estate, famed authors Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev were engaged in pleasant conversation when Tolstoy made an off-hand comment concerning the charity wo...
The Crimean ASSR: Self-Determination Under Soviet Power, 1921
In October 1921, the new Bolshevik government in Moscow issued a decree creating the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian SFSR.
Months earlier, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, a Volga Tatar Bolshevik, had been dispatched...
War, Peace, and Propaganda: The Soviet Remaking of Lev Tolstoy
Note: An earlier version of this article appeared on this Substack in 2025. It has since been expanded with new archival research and primary source material.
In October 1941, while embedded with the staff of the Red Army newspaper Krasnay...
Crimea, Curzon, and the Defeat of the Red Army at Warsaw in 1920
In July 1920, as the Red Army had the Polish forces in a full-scale retreat, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, sent a note to Moscow proposing a new border between the newly independent Polish state and the lands of the former Rus...
The Flights Before Barbarossa: German Reconnaissance Flights Over the USSR in early 1941
The twin-engine Junkers Ju 86R cruised at 33,000 feet above Zhitomir, a key transport hub in the western Ukrainian SSR. Below, rail lines stitched Kiev to the frontier; above, the German aircraft flew in the thin air largely beyond the effe...
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Russian literary history, with a focus on the nineteenth century, all things Dostoevsky, and the shifting cultural landscapes of the imperial and early Soviet eras.
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