This research cluster project, “Muslim Lives in a Shifting World: Revivals, Encounters, and Identities in Late Soviet and Contemporary Eurasia, 1970s-Present,” sought to reexamine the tumultuous period around the collapse of the Soviet state through the experiences of Muslims in the former Soviet space. By examining Muslim lives in the region, the group shed new light on the diversity of lived experiences that a play a crucial role in multiethnic and mult-ireligious societies as they transition to democracies or revert to back authoritarianism. The group purused four overarching goals: (1) convening a transnational group of scholars to conduct an interdisciplinary analysis of published and unpublished sources, archives, and collections on Muslim lives from this period; (2) hosting a series of training seminars and roundtable discussions to facilitate collaboration among scholars and aid in the discovery of sources and hidden collections; (3) publishing a two-volume open access handbook of peer-reviewed scholarly articles, which will be available to general readers and support teaching and learning at Illinois and beyond; (4) using the results from the analysis of sources and scholarly articles to formulate a plan to digitize archives and collections from this period.