American Tourism to the USSR
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
November 9, 2020
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Pogroms and Race Riots
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
October 30, 2020
From Aliaska to Alaska
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
October 23, 2020
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
October 16, 2020
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
October 9, 2020
Capitalism
Lukoil, Power, and Culture in Perm
Guest: Doug Rogers on The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism.
March 21, 2016
February 22, 2016
Western Journalism and the Ukraine Crisis
Guest: Keith Gessen on western reporting on the Ukraine crisis.
January 8, 2016
2015: The Year of the Downward Spiral
Recent reports in Vedomosti and RBK dovetail nicely with the editorial I’ve translated below from the folks at OpenLeft.ru. Vedomosti predicts that in 2016 Russia’s
December 29, 2015
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
“The price of potatoes in Russia has risen by 300 percent . . .”
Three graphs speak to the plight of the Russian consumer in 2015: the ruble-dollar exchange rate, inflation, and real wage growth: http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=usdrub&v=201512111855m&d1=20141001&d2=20151211&h=300&w=600 Source: tradingeconomics.com http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=rucpiyoy&v=201512102303m&d1=20140101&d2=20151231&type=type=line&h=300&w=600 Source:
December 11, 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
Raising Zombie Economics in Ukraine
After a long hiatus, I’ve started writing for Russia! Magazine again. Here’s my re-debut article, “Ukraine’s New Neoliberal Necromancer,” on the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s hiring
October 12, 2015
Krugman on the Russian Economy
Over at the NYT, Paul Krugman has written some interesting posts on Russia’s economic woes: Putin on the Fritz; The Ruble and the Textbooks; Notes
December 19, 2014