Recent Posts

REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.

January 21, 2021

The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

January 15, 2021

Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

January 8, 2021

Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

January 4, 2021

On Political Vindication Radio

I’ll be appearing on Political Vindication Radio at 6:10 pm PST to talk about Putin and the state of Russia. Political Vindication Radio emphatically portends to be “doing the work blue blood Republicans just won’t do.” I’m not sure what that means but having a stanch lefty like myself as a guest should certainly prove to be interesting radio.