Dr. Christine Varga-Harris

Rebecca Friedman, Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Slavic Review 81, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 1100-1101.

"Feminist in Actions if not Name," Kritika 23, no. 3 (Summer 2022): 685-689. (historiographical essay centered on Yulia Gradskova, The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global south, and the Cold War: Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’? (Routledge, 2021)

Katherine Zubovich, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton University Press, 2021), American Historical Review 126, no. 3 (September 2021): 1343-1344.

Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, 2019), The Russian Review 78, no. 4 (October 2019): 685-686.

Andy Willimott, Living the Revolution: Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932 (Oxford University Press, 2017), The English Historical Review 134, no. 567 (April 2019): 495-497.

Stories of House and Home:  Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 2015).

“Socialist Internationalism Writ Small: Friendship and Sisterhood in Correspondence between Women in the Soviet Union and the Decolonizing World, 1950s-1960s,” in Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War, ed. Kristin Roth-Ey (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 97-118.

“Decorating in Moderation, Moderating Character: Domestic Space and the Soviet Person in the Era of Mass Housing,” in Flying Panels: How Concrete Panels Changed the World , ed. Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola (Stockholm, Sweden: ArkDes/The Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, 2019), 198-207. Published in English, Spanish and Swedish editions as an accompaniment to the following art exhibition: https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/flygande-betong-byggelementen-som-forandrade-varlden/

“Moving Toward Utopia:  Soviet Housing in the Atomic Age,” in Divided Dreamworlds?  The Cultural Cold War in East and West, ed. Peter Romijn, Giles Scott-Smith and Joes Segal (Amsterdam, NL:  Amsterdam University Press, 2012), 133-153.

“Forging Citizenship on the Home Front:  Reviving the Socialist Contract and Constructing Soviet Identity During the Thaw,” in The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization:  A Social and Cultural History of Reform in the Khrushchev Era, ed. Polly Jones (London, UK; New York City:  Routledge-Curzon, 2006; 2nd ed., 2009), 101-116.

“Soviet Women and Internationalism in Socialist Travel Itineraries in the 1950s and 1960s,” Diplomatic History 46, no. 3 (June 2022): 486-504.

“Between National Tradition and Western Modernization: Soviet Woman and Representations of Socialist Gender Equality as a ‘Third Way’ for Developing Countries, 1956-1964,” Slavic Review 78, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 758-781.

“Хрущёвка, коммуналка:  социализм и повседневность во время ‘Оттепели’,” Новейшая истoрия России [Contemporary History of Russia], nо. 1 (June 2011): 160-166.

“Homemaking and the Aesthetic and Moral Perimeters of the Soviet Home during the Khrushchev Era,” Journal of Social History 41, no. 3 (Spring 2008): 561-589.