Russia’s War on Ukrainian Farms
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, Ukrainian farms have been under siege. This memo documents the damage inflicted on Ukrainian agricultural assets and production and draws…
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Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food
(UW Press) How agrotechnology served—and undermined—Soviet and Russian political projects. Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms produced and citizens ate—or, in some years, didn’t eat—underwent…
Postmodernity (Derluguian); Russian “Federalism” (Makarychev, Yatsyk); Pluralism without Democracy (Makarychev); Russia’s Post-Soviet Ideological Terrain (Wengle, Monet, Olimpieva)
(Slavic Review) Contents: CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: 1968 Judit Bodnár: Making a Long Story Longer: Eastern Europe and 1968 as a Global Moment, Fifty Years Later Anna Szemere: Let’s Turn Hegel from His…
Tomorrow Putin answers Russians’ questions on live TV. Here’s what his performance will tell us.
(WP) On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will once again answer questions from citizens in his annual, multi-hour, live television call-in show, “Direct Line With Vladimir Putin.” Many observers describe these…
Plentiful Harvests in Eurasia: Why Some Farms in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Armenia Are Thriving Despite Institutional Challenges
(PONARS Policy Memo) The conventional wisdom about agriculture reforms in post-Soviet countries is that they failed to achieve their stated objectives. This assessment is largely based on studies that focused on…