Severyan Dyakonov
@severyandyakonov.bsky.social
Historian of Soviet internationalism. USSR-India relations/International Red Cross movement/Soviets in International Organizations/digital humanities for historians.
#CfP for PhD/ECR: Across the Bamboo Curtain: Econ, Polit, and Tech Exchanges Between East and West During the Cold War, 1950s-1970s
Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2026
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Organized by: Yi Liu, Ziru Yang, Karina Khasnulina, and me
Img: British airplane in China, 1961
Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2026
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Organized by: Yi Liu, Ziru Yang, Karina Khasnulina, and me
Img: British airplane in China, 1961
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#CfP for PhD/ECR: Across the Bamboo Curtain: Econ, Polit, and Tech Exchanges Between East and West During the Cold War, 1950s-1970s
Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2026
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Organized by: Yi Liu, Ziru Yang, Karina Khasnulina, and me
Img: British airplane in China, 1961
Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2026
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Organized by: Yi Liu, Ziru Yang, Karina Khasnulina, and me
Img: British airplane in China, 1961
From the conference on social history students organizations.
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
From the conference on social history students organizations.
Auditing a conference on student organizations "Tackling Cold War Student Organizations though Social History," UniFr Nov 21. Constantin Katsakioris has presented on nationalist and ethnic tensions among students from Africa and the Middle East during studies at Soviet universities.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Auditing a conference on student organizations "Tackling Cold War Student Organizations though Social History," UniFr Nov 21. Constantin Katsakioris has presented on nationalist and ethnic tensions among students from Africa and the Middle East during studies at Soviet universities.
A little report on my first digitization project. So I completed making pictures of each page of the archive for Ukrainian Red Cross Abroad, 1939-45. You see it all in the box. It took me six working days. Now the new step - text recognition and playing with AI tools for research output.
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A little report on my first digitization project. So I completed making pictures of each page of the archive for Ukrainian Red Cross Abroad, 1939-45. You see it all in the box. It took me six working days. Now the new step - text recognition and playing with AI tools for research output.
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Coming soon...
October 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Coming soon...
7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened!
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www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened!
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link
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www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...
Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel!
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July 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel!
connecting3worlds.org/african-afro...
connecting3worlds.org/african-afro...
On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.
July 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.
Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
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June 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.
June 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.
Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025
June 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025
June 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research!
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
June 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research!
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
#African #Afropean #Afropolitan
www.ecasconference.org/2025/
My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
June 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
May 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...
You can read my blog entry on my current project on hist of Intl Red Cross, 1940s-80s and about amazing archives at CarletonU in Ottawa. Special thanks to the Canadian Network for Humanitarian History for posting! Join their newsletter if interested in these themes.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
You can read my blog entry on my current project on hist of Intl Red Cross, 1940s-80s and about amazing archives at CarletonU in Ottawa. Special thanks to the Canadian Network for Humanitarian History for posting! Join their newsletter if interested in these themes.
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1976, the Philippines, Canadian Red Cross records. @carleton.ca library special collection.
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
1976, the Philippines, Canadian Red Cross records. @carleton.ca library special collection.
@carleton.ca allowed me to open a letter sent in 1942. A lady had sent her address for her son if he would search for her.
April 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
@carleton.ca allowed me to open a letter sent in 1942. A lady had sent her address for her son if he would search for her.
American Red Cross WWII era poster and fashion ad at the same time. Lauren Bacall in 1943.
March 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
American Red Cross WWII era poster and fashion ad at the same time. Lauren Bacall in 1943.