Writing
Poe is the co-founder and a former editor of the academic journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. In 2006, he worked for The Atlantic Monthly, writing on issues such as divorce among born-again Christians, and the history of Wikipedia.
In his 2002 essay "Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model," published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, Poe questioned the viability of the old academic publishing model, arguing in favor of self-publishing and print on demand. He explained how he did this with one of the two volumes of his prosopographical study of the Russian elite in the early modern period. "Shortly after I sent the book for review", he writes, "a very worried journal editor contacted me. He was upset that I hadn't included a copyright page on the e-book I sent him. Without a copyright page, he explained, any reader could copy my book, send it all over the world, or use it in the classroom — all without my permission. That, I responded, was the point. (I'm not sure he got it.)" The two volumes of this work were published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2004.
Poe's own work has brought back from obscurity the writings of the 16th-century Austrian diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein, who was one of the first European ethnographers of Russia.
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