Nadin Brzezinski·Oct 20Trump is on Putin’s SideIt is clear now that Donald Trump has taken the side of Vladimir Putin. It is no longer about what Putin has on Trump. This does not…A response icon20A response icon20
Ani·Oct 19Understanding the Russian “social estate” (Alfred Rieber, Gregory Freeze, and Alison Smith on the…Alfred Rieber has been described by the Harriman Institute as “perhaps the most productive, wide-ranging, and influential historian of the…
Ani·Oct 6A moment from Herzen’s “Byloe i dumy” (“My Past & Thoughts”)Alexander Herzen was a writer, philosopher, critic, memoirist, and publicist. His name is inseparable from Russia’s liberal and radical…
Nadin Brzezinski·Oct 5Plague… Flashbacks to COVID–19?Since I see quite a bit of panic… because of Russia…here are the cases in 2025 in the United States. We KNOW how to treat this ok. My only…A response icon8A response icon8
Footprints in Smoke·Oct 5How Could Jews Be Blamed for Both Communism and Capitalism?A reader left an interesting comment beneath my recent article on antisemitism in Europe.
The Part Time Thinker·Oct 2Petrus MagnusHowdy and welcome to the Part Time Thinker, this is the third installment of my Russian culture series. I began with War and Peace by Leo…
Olga Fields·Sep 29The Limits of Russian Radical IdealismNikolai Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? published in 1863, influenced young Russians far beyond literature. Many readers approached it…
Marion.nette·Sep 24Ivan Aivazovsky’s life in my eyesMy profile picture is a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, a Russian painter from the 1800’s. Specifically its the painting Tempest on the sea at…A response icon1A response icon1
Phil Tufi·Sep 2Why Do Russians Flick the Neck?A short historical investigation into Peter the Great, an English royal ritual, and how an idea might have changed while traveling
