ethno-political history of Russia and the USSR, Buryats and Kalmyks, Russian colonialism
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
A historian and anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle); his work covers the integration of Buryats and Kalmyks into the Russian state (monograph, 2001), the publication of an archival document regarding Buryats and Mongols in the early Soviet Far Eastern Krai (Acta Mongolica, 2025), and the question of Russian colonialism.
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Selected works
"Staat und Nationalitäten in Rußland" (monograph, 2001; subtitle covers the integration of Buryats and Kalmyks, 1822–1925)
"Nikolai Kyuner on the Buryats and Mongols in the Soviet Far Eastern Krai" (Acta Mongolica, 2025)
"Byla li Rossiya kolonial'noy imperiyey?" [Was Russia a colonial empire?] (Russian-language article, open access)
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