Jeremy Morris is a researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark. His work covers labour relations, political economy, and the lived experience of people in Russia, Ukraine and other places since the collapse of the Soviet Union. He is the author of ‘Everyday Postsocialism’ (Palgrave, 2016). he writes sociologically about current events in Russia on his blog www.postsocialism.org.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionIt’s Victory Day – but most Russians feel anything but victorious
My research found several misconceptions about Russians’ attitude to the Ukraine war. Here’s what people really think
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Published in: oDR: OpinionFor Vladimir Putin, Russia’s future is North Korea-lite
The occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions offer the president a template of brute, military-style governance
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisMikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev: A very Russian contradiction
Missing from most Western accounts is how Gorbachev’s thinking was both socialist and liberal
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisWhat do ordinary Russians think about the invasion of Ukraine?
People don’t necessarily support Putin, but many I’ve spoken to are retreating into forms of denial