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

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

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

Join us next week for a lecture by Dr. Lisa Wolverton at UNC. Dr. Wolverton will present their talk, New Visions of Medieval Central Europe. Lisa Wolverton is Professor of History, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies at the … Read more

Terrell Starr, a prominent independent American journalist hailing from Detroit, brings a unique perspective to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is the founder and host of Black Diplomats, a weekly podcast reporting on foreign affairs and East European … Read more

Elena Kostyuchenko is a Russian journalist and gay rights activist. She is an investigative reporter for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta. She will be presenting a talk about her book I Love Russia, Reporting From a Lost Country. English Reader: Professor … Read more

Born in Shor-Tyube, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, in 1951, Dungan ethnographer and creative writer Ali Dzhon is widely regarded as the preeminent writer on the material and spiritual culture and history of the Dungan people, the Sinophone Muslims of … Read more

Robin Bisha, Ph.D., is on sabbatical from her position as Professor of Communication at Texas Lutheran University to research communication between humans and non-humans as a component of interspecies spirituality. She began her academic career with graduate work in Russian … Read more

Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent international organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War. Drawing on unused … Read more