Recent Posts

Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

April 9, 2021

Navalny and Next

Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.

March 27, 2021

Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR

Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.

March 19, 2021

Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia

March 13, 2021

Welcome to Chechnya

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.

March 5, 2021

More on Nashi’s Brigades

Rubashov from Darkness at Noon has been hibernating for the past month or so after returning from research. He has returned with an great post titled “The Sound of Marching Boots . . .” about DMD and Nashi and their role in the upcoming Duma elections. He also links the informative Moscow Times article on the subject. I strongly urge readers to check out Rubashov’s discussion.