Isaac McKean Scarborough
Biographic Data
| ID | 5725030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac McKean Scarborough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac McKean |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarborough |
| SIGNATURE | SCARBOROUGH I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7375-6245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Kyiv to Vienna
This article tracks the influence of the Soviet school of gerontology and geriatric medicine on international science and medical practice during the second half of the 20 th century. Beginning with the initial development of this school of gerontology in the 1930s, this article shows how the Soviet influence on international ideas of ageing, geriatric medicine, and biological gerontology was significant, especially through the institutional scie…
Chains of White Gold
History and International Studies 1900-present
Like Cooking Plov with Hoja Nasreddin
This article recalculates financial flows to and from the Tajik SSR during the 1970s and 1980s. Using tax and export revenue from cotton production largely unregistered in Soviet financial accounts, it provides an estimate for the annual financial outflow of revenue from the Tajik SSR. This is then compared to the annual ‘subsidy’ sent to the republic. In practice, the article concludes that financial transfers to the Tajik SSR were largely equiv…
A New Science for an Old(er) Population
Like most developed nations, the Soviet Union faced an unprecedented demographic shift during the latter half of the twentieth century, as its population aged and life expectancies grew significantly. Facing similar challenges as the USA or the UK, this article argues, the USSR reacted similarly and equally ad hoc, allowing biological gerontology and geriatrics to develop as sciences and medical specialisations with little central direction. When…
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
The USSR is Dead
This essay re-evaluates the history of Tajikistan’s close security and military links to Russia and the influence of this relationship on Tajikistan’s sovereignty. By analysing Tajikistan’s security services during the period of Soviet collapse, it suggests that the basic contours of these links can be observed developing in the early 1990s. Following the end of the Tajik Civil War (1992–1997), moreover, these links have only grown, leading to a …
Nigal A. Raab, All Shook Up
Chris Miller, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy
An unwanted dependence
Based on an analysis of the bureaucratic interactions between deported Chechen and Ingush ‘special settlers’ (spetspereselentsy) and local state institutions in late-Stalinist Kazakhstan (1944–1953), this article argues that the deportees’ acts of assimilation can be seen as representative of the contradictory dual relationship of victimization and dependence faced by the majority of Soviet citizens in one form or another during late Stalinism. R…
(Over)determining social disorder
This article analyses the rise of social unrest in the Tajik SSR in 1990–1991 from the perspective of the republic’s place within the broader Soviet economy and the collapse of that economy over the course of perestroika (1985–1991). Countering standard narratives of glasnost, democratization and nationalism in Tajikistan, it demonstrates that a close reading of the historical record points to sharp economic downturn as the most plausible immedia…
(Over)determining social disorder
This article analyses the rise of social unrest in the Tajik SSR in 1990–1991 from the perspective of the republic’s place within the broader Soviet economy and the collapse of that economy over the course of perestroika (1985–1991). Countering standard narratives of glasnost, democratization and nationalism in Tajikistan, it demonstrates that a close reading of the historical record points to sharp economic downturn as the most plausible immedia…
A New Science for an Old(er) Population
Like most developed nations, the Soviet Union faced an unprecedented demographic shift during the latter half of the twentieth century, as its population aged and life expectancies grew significantly. Facing similar challenges as the USA or the UK, this article argues, the USSR reacted similarly and equally ad hoc, allowing biological gerontology and geriatrics to develop as sciences and medical specialisations with little central direction. When…
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
The USSR is Dead
This essay re-evaluates the history of Tajikistan’s close security and military links to Russia and the influence of this relationship on Tajikistan’s sovereignty. By analysing Tajikistan’s security services during the period of Soviet collapse, it suggests that the basic contours of these links can be observed developing in the early 1990s. Following the end of the Tajik Civil War (1992–1997), moreover, these links have only grown, leading to a …
An unwanted dependence
Based on an analysis of the bureaucratic interactions between deported Chechen and Ingush ‘special settlers’ (spetspereselentsy) and local state institutions in late-Stalinist Kazakhstan (1944–1953), this article argues that the deportees’ acts of assimilation can be seen as representative of the contradictory dual relationship of victimization and dependence faced by the majority of Soviet citizens in one form or another during late Stalinism. R…
(Over)determining social disorder
This article analyses the rise of social unrest in the Tajik SSR in 1990–1991 from the perspective of the republic’s place within the broader Soviet economy and the collapse of that economy over the course of perestroika (1985–1991). Countering standard narratives of glasnost, democratization and nationalism in Tajikistan, it demonstrates that a close reading of the historical record points to sharp economic downturn as the most plausible immedia…
An unwanted dependence
Based on an analysis of the bureaucratic interactions between deported Chechen and Ingush ‘special settlers’ (spetspereselentsy) and local state institutions in late-Stalinist Kazakhstan (1944–1953), this article argues that the deportees’ acts of assimilation can be seen as representative of the contradictory dual relationship of victimization and dependence faced by the majority of Soviet citizens in one form or another during late Stalinism. R…
Chris Miller, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy
Nigal A. Raab, All Shook Up
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
The USSR is Dead
This essay re-evaluates the history of Tajikistan’s close security and military links to Russia and the influence of this relationship on Tajikistan’s sovereignty. By analysing Tajikistan’s security services during the period of Soviet collapse, it suggests that the basic contours of these links can be observed developing in the early 1990s. Following the end of the Tajik Civil War (1992–1997), moreover, these links have only grown, leading to a …
A New Science for an Old(er) Population
Like most developed nations, the Soviet Union faced an unprecedented demographic shift during the latter half of the twentieth century, as its population aged and life expectancies grew significantly. Facing similar challenges as the USA or the UK, this article argues, the USSR reacted similarly and equally ad hoc, allowing biological gerontology and geriatrics to develop as sciences and medical specialisations with little central direction. When…
Chains of White Gold
History and International Studies 1900-present
Like Cooking Plov with Hoja Nasreddin
This article recalculates financial flows to and from the Tajik SSR during the 1970s and 1980s. Using tax and export revenue from cotton production largely unregistered in Soviet financial accounts, it provides an estimate for the annual financial outflow of revenue from the Tajik SSR. This is then compared to the annual ‘subsidy’ sent to the republic. In practice, the article concludes that financial transfers to the Tajik SSR were largely equiv…
From Kyiv to Vienna
This article tracks the influence of the Soviet school of gerontology and geriatric medicine on international science and medical practice during the second half of the 20 th century. Beginning with the initial development of this school of gerontology in the 1930s, this article shows how the Soviet influence on international ideas of ageing, geriatric medicine, and biological gerontology was significant, especially through the institutional scie…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Soviet and Russian History (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Russia and Soviet political economy (4 works)