I have papers and projects in the pipeline which further explore some of the ideas about the historical legacies of Russia's Imperial social structure and/or venture into cross-national comparative analysis exploring some of the themes:
Lankina, Tomila V., Alexander Libman, and Katerina Tertytchnaya. "Living as Before: Keeping up with the Joneses After Repression." In this paper we explore the effects of Stalinist repression on the reproduction of pre-communist social structure, specifically, the bourgeoisie/ middle class. I presented this paper at the “Summer” Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Russia at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago.
A revised version with a different title is a paper coming out soon: Lankina, Tomila V. , Alexander Libman and Katerina Tertytchnaya. "State Violence and Target Group Adaptation." Journal of Peace Research. 2023. Forthcoming. Available here.
I have been working with Giovanni Angioni and Alexander Libman on a new paper, “The Russian Meshchane and the Volga Famine of 1891–1892,″ which we presented at the University of Chicago Centre in Paris, at the 2023 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia organised by Professor Scott Gehlbach.
. Colleagues Guido Alfani and Mattia Fochesato at Bocconi University, Giovanni Angioni, Alexander Libman at the Free University in Berlin and I received a CIVICA grant to study the impact of historical shocks like famine and epidemics on social structure/ inequalities in Russia and Italy.