Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
July 3, 2020
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Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
June 26, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
June 19, 2020
The Baltics In-Between
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
June 15, 2020
Resistance
There Is No Other Way
Oleg Shein posted the following on his Facebook page: Today, the State Duma adopted a law raising the minimum wage from 6200 to 7500 rubles. This is
May 17, 2016
Alexander Shlyapnikov: An Old Working Class Bolshevik
Guest: Barbara Allen on Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik.
April 26, 2016
The Ukrainian Left and the Maidan Protests
Guest: Volodymyr Ishchenko on the Maidan and the Ukrainian left.
February 1, 2016
Kirill Medvedev: Let’s not view each other as wretched sovoks and obnoxious kreakls
The poet, musician and activist Kirill Medvedev is few contemporary Russian leftist voices that has had some play in English. Several of his writings have
January 18, 2016
The Payback for Work
For all intents and purposes, Russia’s official unemployment rate remains quite low for an economy in recession. The Russian Statistical Agency reports that the official
December 27, 2015
December 3, 2015
Why Russia’s Long Distant Truckers’ Strike Needs Support
Since November 15, truckers have been staging protests in no less than twenty-four regions across Russia against a new freight tax. The law institutes a
November 30, 2015
Ukraine Slipping into Paramilitary Arms Race
New Russia! Magazine column, “Ukraine Slipping into Paramilitary Arms Race.” Here’s the opening paragraph: Max Weber defined a state by its power to uphold its
May 22, 2014
The Day Kyiv Blew Up
Guest post by William Risch On January 19, 2014, Kyiv exploded. It started with a peaceful mass rally of over 100,000 people at Independence Square
January 26, 2014
Who Stands with the People of Ukraine?
Guest post by William Risch In a December 25 interview with the magazine Foreign Policy, heavyweight world boxing champion Vitaly Klychko explained the significance of
December 31, 2013