Review

Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination by Keith Livers is part of a recent cast of plucky new texts that blur the boundaries between academia and popular culture [...]

Raz Segal’s Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945 draws light to an under-researched tragedy and contextualizes the violence committed in Europe against [...]

While reading the introduction to Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit, I have come to the conclusion that if the term “woke” existed and could have been applicable to 18th century Russia, this [...]

Migration to the global cities of the Soviet Union plays an important part in the history of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Exploring the narratives of those moving to these global cities, Jeff [...]

Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird is not an easy watch. From the very first scene – where a pet mink is burnt alive – the young, Jewish protagonist (Petr Kotlár) is faced with [...]

By analysing two classic Yugoslavian movies, Natalija Stepanović examines images of the Roma community in European culture.

An Ode to Osh? Ryan Schweitzer describes the cultural importance of Uzbekistan's most famous rice dish.

Louis Train review Rock, Paper, Scissors: "a master-class in noticing."

What does it take to succeed in Russia? Wits, talent, and wiliness – or so claims Joshua Yaffah, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia. [...]

Micah White is not a household name, but his influence as a writer and activist in the past decade has been extraordinary. In 2011, he called on his readers and followers to “flood into lower [...]