Otto's Random Thoughts

English Language Sources on Russian-Germans Compiled by J. Otto Pohl Alexeyeva, Ludmilla, Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for Nationa...

Abstract Suffering in a Province of Asia: The Russian-German Diaspora in Kazakhstan Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and the...

I have been busy recently. I just finished editing my paper for the conference on German diasporas that will take place this August in Canad...

I hope everybody who chances to read this blog has a Happy Memorial Day. I will be grilling up hamburgers for the holiday. I have not grille...

When I first received an e-mail message from Vladimir German asking for my assistance in his family’s asylum case I agreed to help them free...

Well I did not get the foreign job I have been waiting over a month to hear on. They finally wrote me back after I e-mailed them every week ...

I corrected my proofs for the article this morning. Now I need to mail them. They did a really good job on the proofs. Alot of academic jour...

Today I got my proofs for an article that will appear in Human Rights Review next month. The journal is published by the philosophy departm...

Crimean Tatar Bibliography English Language Books Alexeyeva, Ludmilla, Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious and Hu...

Usually my Get Fuzzy calender has holidays listed for Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the UK. Today it had a US one. My calender did not h...

In the early hours of 18 May 1944 some 32,000 members of the NKVD and NKGB began the systematic round up of the entire Crimean Tatar populat...

Since I have arrived in Arivaca I have been reading alot more than at any time in life except when I did the MA at SOAS. I actually found th...

Well I still have not heard anything on the job. I wrote an e-mail to the last person who interviewed me today asking about my status. I thi...

I think I am going to try and revive this blog from some of its current morbidity. I am going to start posting at least one serious historic...

Recently, I have slowed down a bit on writing Catherine's Grandchildren. It has not progressed past 118 pages yet. I hope to rectify th...

The weather forecast predicts that today's high will break 100 degrees for the first time this year in southern Arizona. I made the walk...

I still have yet to hear about the job. It has now been 18 days since the last interview. Since the job is in a country on a different conti...

Well I still have not heard about the job despite sending an e-mail asking about my status yesterday. That is probably not a good sign. If ...

In honor of Victory in Europe Day I will be starting up the grill for the first time this year. I am grilling hot dogs tonight. The weather ...

I still have not heard from the job. I am going to send them an e-mail if I still do not know by Tuesday. Other than waiting I am just about...