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Published in: oDRUndermined: how the state is selling out Ukraine’s coal workersUkraine’s miners were once heroes of socialist labour. Today, after years of sector-wide neglect and corruption,...
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Published in: oDRThe Eternally Wonderful Present, or Russia’s need for a new cultureThe USSR aimed to create a “multinational Soviet culture”, but in post-Soviet Russia national culture has become the...
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Published in: oDRThe roots of Russia’s atomised mourningPost-Soviet people have spent two decades mourning a society that never existed. Русский
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Published in: oDRWelcome to the post-post-Soviet eraTo this day, Lenin lies in state on Red Square. There’s still space in the mausoleum for more modern heroes – and...
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Published in: oDRThe death of the post-Soviet project in RussiaAs we approach the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s demise, it’s high time to remember what Soviet ideology...
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Published in: oDROn 25 years of postmodernity in the South CaucasusA quarter century since the collapse of Soviet rule in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, where is the region now and...
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Published in: oDROssetians in Georgia, with their backs to the mountainsIn the shadow of conflicts past and present, Ossetians and Georgians have found ways to coexist. Twenty-five years...
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Published in: oDRWhere does the key to political change lie in the post-Soviet space?Twenty five years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet world is caught in authoritarian stasis. How...
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Published in: oDRThe Usenet coup: how the USSR discovered the internet in 1991Twenty five years ago this week, government hardliners attempted to take control of the Soviet Union — but failed....
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Published in: oDROver the barriersThink-tanks, newspapers and state agencies make it their work to ratchet up superpower tension. For Russia and the...
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Published in: oDRRussia, Inc.From “structural reforms” of the 2000s to austerity policies today, neoliberalism has been and remains an organic...
