Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.

Li offers a sophisticated argument that this all fed into an entire framework for socialist modernity which China sought to adopt at this crucial period in its history...

How have memes changed politics?

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...

Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...

From Moscow, the world looks different...

Wijermars discusses how history is being reimagined by in pop culture and by the Russian government to give legitimacy and a sense of history to the Putin regime.

Holmes uses the case study of the Pedagogical Institute during the war years to explore power relationships in the institute and between local/ regional power and central power in Moscow...

Food plays a pivotal role throughout Russian history, but perhaps no more so than during the Soviet era, when the perennial Russian cycle of feast and famine took on a highly political aspect...

Sahadeo looks at the migrant experiences of peoples from the Caucuses and Central Asia in the late Soviet and early Post-Soviet periods ( 1960s-1990s)...

Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...

Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...

101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...

Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...

For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”

Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...

The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...

Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...

"Invitation to a Bonfire" is inspired by the life of the well-known Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.

In this very personal book with essays and short stories, Ghodsee describes the post-socialist realities of the victims of the greedy neoliberalism that has dismantled their social safety nets and expresses her frustration about the continuing tendency to reduce the twentieth-century East European state socialisms to Stalinism and the Gulags...

Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...

Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...