Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
In an effort to keep this three more populated, I'm trying to save at least a comment or two per day to highlight here! Without further ado...
/u/colevintage on gender and fashion.
/u/masungura on German missionaries in Africa.
/u/prufrock451 on the Invasion of Panama.
/u/othais on the Carcano rifle.
/u/texpeare on Shakespeare's popularity over time.
/u/shlin28 on Gibbon's work.
/u/cephalopodie on the effect of the HIV//AIDS crisis in the lesbian community.
/u/publiusclodius on Attalus III's will
/u/mootmute on new research into the murder of Julien Lahaut.
/u/polybios on Dutch power in the 17th century.
/u/oakheartIX on Ludwig II's friendships.
/u/llamastingray on Soviet post-Revolution economics.
/u/yodatsracist on religious communities within the Ottoman Empire.
/u/sid_burn on the Kaiser and family's views on Nazism
/u/valkine on medieval sieges.
/u/CptBuck on early Islamic higher education.
/u/tayaravaknin on government and business in the 20th century.
/u/international_KB on Lenin's "Sealed Train".
It's actually been a storming week for Stalinist economics, with two great comments worth highlighting.
/u/llamastingray dispelled a few myths around the onset and nature of the Stalinist industrialisation programme.
/u/Smilin_Dave bossed it with a great summary of the key issues and literature to be aware of when discussing the Soviet famines of the early 1930s.