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Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their new books.
April 6, 2026
The People's Patriarch
On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, …
April 1, 2026
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia (Cornell UP, 2026) by Dr. Kristina Jonuty…
March 24, 2026
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem
Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a …
March 24, 2026
Socialist De-Colony
Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of c…
March 23, 2026
The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia
For centuries, Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world. Until World War II, this area was home to over forty percent of world Jewry…
March 20, 2026
Why Barbarossa Failed
Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? For more than eight decades, historians have offered one dominant answer: Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Uni…
March 15, 2026
Russian Military Thought
The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. Strategy in Russia encompas…
March 14, 2026
Stalinism on Trial
Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War (Liverpool University Press, 2025) is a history of Communism and anti-Co…
March 1, 2026
The Second Cold War
Towards the end of the Cold War, the last great struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union marked the end of détente, and escalated into …
February 21, 2026
The Short History of Russia
The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 began a new episode in history and was surrounded by a miscellany of historical claims. The Short History of Russia: R…
February 19, 2026
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class
Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with …
February 16, 2026
Post-Soviet Graffiti
Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how gra…
February 14, 2026
The Peasants' War
During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, approximately four million peasan…
February 8, 2026
The Method
“When I set out to write this book, I decided to approach it like a biography. After all, the Method had parents, obscure beginnings, fumbling toward …
February 7, 2026
Soviet Samizdat
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomenon…
February 3, 2026
Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War
A cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war. Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of 'hybrid' warfare, a…
January 31, 2026
Secret Leviathan
The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secre…
January 30, 2026
All You Need to Know about Russian Politics Today
Host Licia Cianetti talks to two Russian experts, Vladislav Gorin and Alexandra Prokopenko, about the state of Russian domestic politics today. As Rus…
January 24, 2026
A Nasty Little War
In A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution (Basic Books, 2024), award-winning reporter Anna Reid tells the extraordina…
January 14, 2026
In Stalin's Shadow
Most people on the contemporary left see Stalin as an unfortunate stain on the history of the global left, a part of the historical process that w…