REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
January 21, 2021
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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
Economic Crisis
Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.
September 7, 2018
August 29, 2018
Putinomics
Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press.
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April 24, 2018
Perestroika and the Chinese Model
Guest: Chris Miller on The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR.
March 7, 2017
Working Class Life in Anytown Russia
Guest: Jeremy Morris on Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins.
January 30, 2017
Russian Labor, Class, and Conflict
Guest: Steven Crowley on the Russian labor movement.
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November 21, 2016
Mapping Russian Labor Conflict
In July, the Center for Economic and Political Reform, a think tank that monitors and studies social and economic issues in Russia, released a report on
September 9, 2016
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
Russian Debt Collectors’ Reign of Terror
I wrote an article for OpenDemocracy on microloans and debt collector violence. I’ve been mulling the article since January when I read a gruesome story about
April 14, 2016