When trying to make sense of Vladimir Putin's slow, persistent, marginalization and torture of Alexey Navalny, which culminated in his tragic death on February 16th of this year, many analysts point to one of two factors that made him so … Read more
Adrienne Edgar is Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in the history of the Soviet Union, specifically the history of Central Asia in the Soviet period. Her research has focused on the making of nations in early … Read more
Uliana Movchan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She has conducted research at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University); Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University … Read more
From Leonid Brezhnev's pharmacological bids for corporeal immortality, to the continued display of Lenin's (un)dead body in the Mausoleum, official culture in the late Soviet period was at pains to demonstrate its own permanence. Yet novels like the Strugatsky brothers' … Read more
