Artemy M Kalinovsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 323712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artemy M Kalinovsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artemy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalinovsky |
| SIGNATURE | KALINOVSKY A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8388-1815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
Learning from Experience: Moscow’s Changing Approaches to ‘Third World’ Revolution
Journal Article Learning from Experience: Moscow’s Changing Approaches to ‘Third World’ Revolution Get access Jeremy Friedman. Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $36.00 (hardcover). Artemy M Kalinovsky Artemy M Kalinovsky E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad030, https://d…
The Pillars of Our Statehood: ” Glasnost’, Soviet Networks, and National Mobilization
Scholars of Gorbachev’s reforms and the Soviet collapse usually note that the last Soviet leader underestimated the power of nationalist mobilization and acted belatedly, and ineffectually, to stop it. In this article, I consider the effects of the strategy that Gorbachev adopted in the wake of the Alma-Ata events (remembered as Jeltoqsan in Kazakhstan), when protests erupted after an ethnic Russian from outside the republic was installed as firs…
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective
In the 1970s and 1980s, Soviet social scientists and planners grew increasingly skeptical that they could draw Central Asian peasants, and especially women, into the industrial workforce, and turned to experimenting with 'non traditional' forms of work, such as home labor for handicrafts and consumer goods and family subcontracting in agriculture. This article traces Soviet debates about women's labor and the family in Central Asia in the context…
M aya K. P eterson . Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
Anyone with even a basic knowledge of contemporary Central Asia knows that it is a region struggling with water; the Aral Sea, an inner lake that straddles contemporary Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, is a now a fraction of its size from fifty years ago, and water in other places is heavily polluted by industrial and agricultural runoffs. Maya K. Peterson’s Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin is by far the best study we have…
"Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Journey to the "Other World: The History of a Cold War Ḥajjnāma
Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Dar on dunyo ("In the other world"), first published in Tajik in 1965 and later translated to Russian, Uzbek, and many other languages, is the only known fictionalized account of the ḥajj produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a trip made by the author in 1963, the novel provided the Soviet reader a rare glimpse into this sacred rite. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary responses, and the text itself, this article tr…
Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World
Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established a…
Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the former Soviet Union’s borders, cross border interactions between the former Soviet Union states and China have augmented, and particularly the impetus given by the Chinese authorities to the Belt and Road Initiative has increased the presence of various Chinese actors in the countries along China’s western border. Notably, China’s ‘going global’ has received increasingly scholarly a…
Sorting Out the Recent Historiography of Development Assistance: Consolidation and New Directions in the Field
Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945–1967
Ever since historians turned their attention to U.S.-sponsored modernization programs, one of their most persistent criticisms has been that intellectuals and policymakers extrapolated from Western European and U.S. experience and applied their findings wherever U.S. foreign policy led. The persistent failures of modernization programs could thus be explained in part by the confrontation between neat models proposed in Ivy League universities and…
Sergei Abashin, Soviet Kishlak: Between Colonialism and Modernization (Sovetskii kishlak: mezhdu kolonializmom i modernizatsiei) (Moscow: NLO, 2015)
New Histories of the End of the Cold War and the Late Twentieth Century
The twentieth anniversary of communism's collapse in Eastern Europe saw a torrent of new publications on those momentous events. In an essay for the New York Review of Books Timothy Garton Ash complained that for all the work that has gone into explaining the transitions of that year 'we have learned little new about the causes and social dynamics of the mass, popular actions that actually gave 1989 a claim to be a revolution, or chain of revolut…
A Most Beautiful City for the World’s Tallest Dam: Internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek
This article examines the history of Nurek City in Tajikistan, built to accommodate the works constructing the world’s tallest dam starting in 1961. One of many “new cities” constructed in the post‐war USSR, Nurek began life as a messy construction site but eventually became a city Soviet officials felt reflected Soviet promises of urban modernity. Drawing on sources from archives in Moscow and Tajikistan, as well as oral history and published so…
Sotveskii kishlak: Mezhdu kolonializmom i modernizatsiey
Sergey Abashin’s Sovetskii Kishshak: mezhdu kolonializmom i modernizatsiey [A Soviet qishloq: between colonialism and modernization] is an historical ethnography of Oshoba, a village in Northern Ta
Jenny Leigh Smith, Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963
Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War
1. Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Michael Kemper Part 1: Origins and Comparisons 2. Orients Compared: US and Soviet Imaginaries of the Modern Middle East Masha Kirasirova Part 2: Transfers 3. From Tents to Citadels: The Transfer of Oriental Archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan Alfrid K. Bustanov 4. 'Ulama'-Orientalists: Madrasa Graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies Bakhtiyar M. Ba…
Tractors, Power Lines, and the Welfare State: The Contradictions of Soviet Development in Post-World War II Tajikistan
This article considers the Soviet campaign to transform the Tajik countryside by mechanizing agricultural production and bringing the welfare state to the villages in light of broader 20th century rural development efforts. It begins by examining the attempt to mechanize agriculture and electrify the Tajik countryside through the eyes of the officials charged with implementing these technologies. Problems with how these technologies were introduc…
Strange Rebels: 1979 And the Birth of the 21st Century
Something major happened in 1979, or around 1979, or in any case sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Orthodoxies crumbled, as did regimes, and the world was never the same. The centrality of the date is universally accepted, although no one can agree on when these changes began and when they were fully realized. In 2008 several historians organized a conference at Harvard University about the 1970s and eventually published an edited volume…
Virus A: Kak my zaboleli vtorzheniem v Afgnanistan [Virus A: How We Caught the Disease of Intervening in Afghanistan]
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was unarguably Moscow's most consequential foreign policy blunder of the post-World War II period, leading to a decade long war, over 14,000 dead and 40,000 wounded Re
The Soviet Union and Mosaddeq: A Research Note
Although it is generally accepted that the Soviet Union did not play a significant role in the events leading to the overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953, little has been written about how the Soviets perceived the Iranian leader and the movement he inspired. This article argues that Soviet leaders generally saw Mosaddeq as weak and ill-disposed towards the Soviet Union. The Soviet failure to secure an oil concession in Iran in 1946 and general…
Christopher J. Ward, Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Socialism
Zhivago's children: The last Russian intelligentsia
Vladislav M. Zubok, Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 453 pp. Zhivago's Children is the story of the Soviet intelligentsia's flowering and decline after the death of S
Decision-Making and the Soviet War in Afghanistan: From Intervention to Withdrawal
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan sparked acute Cold War tensions. The war soon became an undesirable distraction and burden for Soviet leaders, who did not expect to spend most of the 1980s propping up a client regime in Kabul. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, this article traces Soviet decision-making from the intervention in late 1979 to the final withdrawal in early 1989. The article shows that the supporters of the Soviet interve…
Old politics, new diplomacy: The Geneva accords and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
While much has been written about the origins of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, little is known about the Soviet effort to disengage. This article sheds new light on the diplomatic efforts under Mikhail Gorbachev to engage the US and secure an ‘honourable’ withdrawal for Soviet troops. Drawing on declassified Russian and US documents, it also explores the internal Soviet debates as well as Moscow's relationship with its client in Kabul o…
Decision-Making and the Soviet War in Afghanistan: From Intervention to Withdrawal
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan sparked acute Cold War tensions. The war soon became an undesirable distraction and burden for Soviet leaders, who did not expect to spend most of the 1980s propping up a client regime in Kabul. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, this article traces Soviet decision-making from the intervention in late 1979 to the final withdrawal in early 1989. The article shows that the supporters of the Soviet interve…
The Soviet Union and Mosaddeq: A Research Note
Although it is generally accepted that the Soviet Union did not play a significant role in the events leading to the overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953, little has been written about how the Soviets perceived the Iranian leader and the movement he inspired. This article argues that Soviet leaders generally saw Mosaddeq as weak and ill-disposed towards the Soviet Union. The Soviet failure to secure an oil concession in Iran in 1946 and general…
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective
In the 1970s and 1980s, Soviet social scientists and planners grew increasingly skeptical that they could draw Central Asian peasants, and especially women, into the industrial workforce, and turned to experimenting with 'non traditional' forms of work, such as home labor for handicrafts and consumer goods and family subcontracting in agriculture. This article traces Soviet debates about women's labor and the family in Central Asia in the context…
Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the former Soviet Union’s borders, cross border interactions between the former Soviet Union states and China have augmented, and particularly the impetus given by the Chinese authorities to the Belt and Road Initiative has increased the presence of various Chinese actors in the countries along China’s western border. Notably, China’s ‘going global’ has received increasingly scholarly a…
Sorting Out the Recent Historiography of Development Assistance: Consolidation and New Directions in the Field
A Most Beautiful City for the World’s Tallest Dam: Internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek
This article examines the history of Nurek City in Tajikistan, built to accommodate the works constructing the world’s tallest dam starting in 1961. One of many “new cities” constructed in the post‐war USSR, Nurek began life as a messy construction site but eventually became a city Soviet officials felt reflected Soviet promises of urban modernity. Drawing on sources from archives in Moscow and Tajikistan, as well as oral history and published so…
Old politics, new diplomacy: The Geneva accords and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
While much has been written about the origins of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, little is known about the Soviet effort to disengage. This article sheds new light on the diplomatic efforts under Mikhail Gorbachev to engage the US and secure an ‘honourable’ withdrawal for Soviet troops. Drawing on declassified Russian and US documents, it also explores the internal Soviet debates as well as Moscow's relationship with its client in Kabul o…
Old politics, new diplomacy: The Geneva accords and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
While much has been written about the origins of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, little is known about the Soviet effort to disengage. This article sheds new light on the diplomatic efforts under Mikhail Gorbachev to engage the US and secure an ‘honourable’ withdrawal for Soviet troops. Drawing on declassified Russian and US documents, it also explores the internal Soviet debates as well as Moscow's relationship with its client in Kabul o…
Decision-Making and the Soviet War in Afghanistan: From Intervention to Withdrawal
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan sparked acute Cold War tensions. The war soon became an undesirable distraction and burden for Soviet leaders, who did not expect to spend most of the 1980s propping up a client regime in Kabul. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, this article traces Soviet decision-making from the intervention in late 1979 to the final withdrawal in early 1989. The article shows that the supporters of the Soviet interve…
Zhivago's children: The last Russian intelligentsia
Vladislav M. Zubok, Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 453 pp. Zhivago's Children is the story of the Soviet intelligentsia's flowering and decline after the death of S
Christopher J. Ward, Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Socialism
Strange Rebels: 1979 And the Birth of the 21st Century
Something major happened in 1979, or around 1979, or in any case sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Orthodoxies crumbled, as did regimes, and the world was never the same. The centrality of the date is universally accepted, although no one can agree on when these changes began and when they were fully realized. In 2008 several historians organized a conference at Harvard University about the 1970s and eventually published an edited volume…
Virus A: Kak my zaboleli vtorzheniem v Afgnanistan [Virus A: How We Caught the Disease of Intervening in Afghanistan]
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was unarguably Moscow's most consequential foreign policy blunder of the post-World War II period, leading to a decade long war, over 14,000 dead and 40,000 wounded Re
The Soviet Union and Mosaddeq: A Research Note
Although it is generally accepted that the Soviet Union did not play a significant role in the events leading to the overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953, little has been written about how the Soviets perceived the Iranian leader and the movement he inspired. This article argues that Soviet leaders generally saw Mosaddeq as weak and ill-disposed towards the Soviet Union. The Soviet failure to secure an oil concession in Iran in 1946 and general…
Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War
1. Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Michael Kemper Part 1: Origins and Comparisons 2. Orients Compared: US and Soviet Imaginaries of the Modern Middle East Masha Kirasirova Part 2: Transfers 3. From Tents to Citadels: The Transfer of Oriental Archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan Alfrid K. Bustanov 4. 'Ulama'-Orientalists: Madrasa Graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies Bakhtiyar M. Ba…
Tractors, Power Lines, and the Welfare State: The Contradictions of Soviet Development in Post-World War II Tajikistan
This article considers the Soviet campaign to transform the Tajik countryside by mechanizing agricultural production and bringing the welfare state to the villages in light of broader 20th century rural development efforts. It begins by examining the attempt to mechanize agriculture and electrify the Tajik countryside through the eyes of the officials charged with implementing these technologies. Problems with how these technologies were introduc…
A Most Beautiful City for the World’s Tallest Dam: Internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek
This article examines the history of Nurek City in Tajikistan, built to accommodate the works constructing the world’s tallest dam starting in 1961. One of many “new cities” constructed in the post‐war USSR, Nurek began life as a messy construction site but eventually became a city Soviet officials felt reflected Soviet promises of urban modernity. Drawing on sources from archives in Moscow and Tajikistan, as well as oral history and published so…
Sotveskii kishlak: Mezhdu kolonializmom i modernizatsiey
Sergey Abashin’s Sovetskii Kishshak: mezhdu kolonializmom i modernizatsiey [A Soviet qishloq: between colonialism and modernization] is an historical ethnography of Oshoba, a village in Northern Ta
Jenny Leigh Smith, Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963
Sergei Abashin, Soviet Kishlak: Between Colonialism and Modernization (Sovetskii kishlak: mezhdu kolonializmom i modernizatsiei) (Moscow: NLO, 2015)
New Histories of the End of the Cold War and the Late Twentieth Century
The twentieth anniversary of communism's collapse in Eastern Europe saw a torrent of new publications on those momentous events. In an essay for the New York Review of Books Timothy Garton Ash complained that for all the work that has gone into explaining the transitions of that year 'we have learned little new about the causes and social dynamics of the mass, popular actions that actually gave 1989 a claim to be a revolution, or chain of revolut…
Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945–1967
Ever since historians turned their attention to U.S.-sponsored modernization programs, one of their most persistent criticisms has been that intellectuals and policymakers extrapolated from Western European and U.S. experience and applied their findings wherever U.S. foreign policy led. The persistent failures of modernization programs could thus be explained in part by the confrontation between neat models proposed in Ivy League universities and…
Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World
Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established a…
Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the former Soviet Union’s borders, cross border interactions between the former Soviet Union states and China have augmented, and particularly the impetus given by the Chinese authorities to the Belt and Road Initiative has increased the presence of various Chinese actors in the countries along China’s western border. Notably, China’s ‘going global’ has received increasingly scholarly a…
Sorting Out the Recent Historiography of Development Assistance: Consolidation and New Directions in the Field
M aya K. P eterson . Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
Anyone with even a basic knowledge of contemporary Central Asia knows that it is a region struggling with water; the Aral Sea, an inner lake that straddles contemporary Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, is a now a fraction of its size from fifty years ago, and water in other places is heavily polluted by industrial and agricultural runoffs. Maya K. Peterson’s Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin is by far the best study we have…
"Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Journey to the "Other World: The History of a Cold War Ḥajjnāma
Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Dar on dunyo ("In the other world"), first published in Tajik in 1965 and later translated to Russian, Uzbek, and many other languages, is the only known fictionalized account of the ḥajj produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a trip made by the author in 1963, the novel provided the Soviet reader a rare glimpse into this sacred rite. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary responses, and the text itself, this article tr…
Learning from Experience: Moscow’s Changing Approaches to ‘Third World’ Revolution
Journal Article Learning from Experience: Moscow’s Changing Approaches to ‘Third World’ Revolution Get access Jeremy Friedman. Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $36.00 (hardcover). Artemy M Kalinovsky Artemy M Kalinovsky E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad030, https://d…
The Pillars of Our Statehood: ” Glasnost’, Soviet Networks, and National Mobilization
Scholars of Gorbachev’s reforms and the Soviet collapse usually note that the last Soviet leader underestimated the power of nationalist mobilization and acted belatedly, and ineffectually, to stop it. In this article, I consider the effects of the strategy that Gorbachev adopted in the wake of the Alma-Ata events (remembered as Jeltoqsan in Kazakhstan), when protests erupted after an ethnic Russian from outside the republic was installed as firs…
Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective
In the 1970s and 1980s, Soviet social scientists and planners grew increasingly skeptical that they could draw Central Asian peasants, and especially women, into the industrial workforce, and turned to experimenting with 'non traditional' forms of work, such as home labor for handicrafts and consumer goods and family subcontracting in agriculture. This article traces Soviet debates about women's labor and the family in Central Asia in the context…
Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
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