Isaac Scarborough
Universitair docent
- Naam
- Dr. I.M. Scarborough
- Telefoon
- 071 5272655
- i.m.scarborough@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Isaac Scarborough is historicus Sovjet- en imperiale geschiedenis. Hij heeft interesse in hoe verschillende imperiums in de 20e eeuw vergelijkbaar (of niet zo vergelijkbaar) met elkaar waren, inclusief socialistische rijken, zoals de Sovjet-Unie. Hij heeft specifieke deskundigheid op het gebied van Midden-Azië en de Kaukasus (van de jaren 80 tot nu), de val van de Sovjet-Unie, Suriname (van de jaren 70 tot nu) en de invloed van het einde van imperiums op de verdere ontwikkelingen in perifere landen.
Isaac Scarborough is universitair docent Russische en Euraziatische studies in het Instituut voor Geschiedenis.
Universitair docent
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Instituut voor Geschiedenis
- Scarborough I.M. (2026), From Kyiv to Vienna: Soviet gerontology’s international influence, History of the Human Sciences : .
- Scarborough I.M. (2025), Bespreking van: Feygin Y. (2024), Building a ruin: the Cold War politics of Soviet economic reform: Harvard University Press. The economic history review 78(3): 989-990.
- Scarborough I.M. (2024), Chains of white gold: Tajikistan’s cotton monoculture across the Soviet divide, Saeculum 73(2): 263-286.
- Scarborough I.M. (2024), Capitalism by any other name(s): engaging with markets before the Soviet collapse. In: Gevorkyan A.V. (red.), The Oxford handbook of post-socialist economies. Oxford Handbooks: Oxford University Press.
- Scarborough I.M. (2023), Moscow's heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Scarborough I.M. (2023), Like Cooking Plov with Hoja Nasreddin: recalculating Financial Transfers to Tajikistan, 1971–1989, Europe-Asia Studies 75(6): 1014-1040.
- Grant S. & Scarborough I.M. (2023), Geriatrics and ageing in the Soviet Union: medical, political, and social contexts. London: Bloomsbury.
- Scarborough I.M. (2023), "Aftershocks of Perestroika: Tajikistan's Flattened Modernity". In: Croix J.F. de la & Reeves M. (red.), The Central Asian World. London: Routledge. 55-67.
- Scarborough I.M. (2022), A New Science for an Old(er) Population: Soviet Gerontology and Geriatrics in International Comparative Perspective, Social History of Medicine : hkac001.
- Scarborough I.M. (2022), War: Disordering and Ordering. In: Duyvesteyn I. & Wal A.M. van der (red.) World History for International Studies. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 154-173.
- Scarborough I.M. (19 april 2022), Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan Geïnterviewd door Guillory S. for SRB Podcast [interview].
- Scarborough I.M. (17 oktober 2022), White gold, reaped and sown: Tajikistan’s cotton monoculture across the Soviet divide (Lezing). All Souls College: Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar.
- Zubok V., Cox M., Pechatnov V.O., Braithwaite R., Spohr K., Radchenko S., Zhuravlev S., Scarborough I.M., Savranskaya S. & Sarotte M.E. (2021), A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse thirty years later, Cold War History 21(4): 541-599.
- Kalinovsky A.M. & Scarborough I.M. (2021), The Oil Lamp and the Electric Light Progress, Time, and Nation in Central Asian Memoirs of the Soviet Era, Kritika (Bloomington) 22(1): 107-136.
- Scarborough I.M. (2021), The USSR is Dead: Long Live the USSR? Tajikistan's Inconclusive Transition to Security (In)dependence, 1991-1992, Europe-Asia Studies 74(2): 219-236.
- Scarborough I.M. (2020), Bespreking van: Foltz R. (2019), A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East. London: I.B. Tauris. Nations and Nationalism 26(2): 498-499.
- Scarborough I.M. (2020), Bespreking van: Raab N.A., All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991. Journal of Contemporary History 55(2): 441-443.
- Scarborough I.M. (2018), Bespreking van: Miller C. (2016), The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. Durham: University of North Carolina Press. Journal of Contemporary History 53(2): 483-484.
- Scarborough I.M. (2017), An unwanted dependence: Chechen and Ingush deportees and the development of state-citizen relations in late-Stalinist Kazakhstan (1944-1953), Central Asian Survey 36(1): 93-112.
- Scarborough I.M. (2016), (Over)determining social disorder: Tajikistan and the economic collapse of perestroika, Central Asian Survey 35(3): 439-463.