And that quickly, a month has gone by since I've written here. By way of a quick update, my current plan is to take a graduate-level Russian history class at Penn in the fall and another graduate-level history course at Edinburgh in the spring, the latter probably a methodology. Finishing the third class at Edinburgh will entitle me to a Graduate Certificate in History that I can either continue to build on at Edinburgh or (I hope) transfer to the M.A. program at Penn, should I be admitted there. More on this eventually. For now, it's a regrouping period.
Possible research topics for the fall include the Bund in late imperial Russia or the Black Hundred, the antisemitic ultranationalist group behind many of the pogroms that occurred in Russia around the time of the Russo-Japanese War and 1905 Revolution.
