Alex Oberländer

It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social

#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky

locked up in the magazine and not given out to readers. With publishers these days this seems to be the case as well: God forbid a book is sent to a reviewer - they might intend to read it! #skystorians #academicchatter

Rant of a book review editor: Getting publishers to send out review copies to the reviewers is the absolute worst! Reminds me of this one "bibliograf" in Peterburg's Publichka who always joked that a librarian's job is to make sure that books stay safe, by which he meant ...

found this beauty materialized! stay tuned for more on content and contributors following around publication day, March 25

Greg Afinogenov · Thank God for Dynamite: Victor Serge in the Archives Victor Serge’s self-conscious marginality, the cause of enormous struggle during his life, became a posthumous badge...

‘His self-conscious marginality became a posthumous badge of authenticity: it helped reassure countless liberals and leftists that one could oppose the Soviet Union without giving up on the dream of liberation from capitalism.’

Greg Afinogenov on Victor Serge:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Can't wait! #skystorians #newbookalert

It's gonna get a lot crazier than this...

Unfortunately, Trump’s actions only bolster the argument that U.S. involvement in Ukraine should be understood as a proxy war. This doesn’t mean the Ukrainians were American puppets, but Washington’s intervention fits the “proxy war” formula m*ore* than ever.

Can't wait!

This is just another day for a manuscript under the leadership of a lady named Alex Oberländer. #academicchatter
Hm. Insanity seems to be contagious after all.

Richard Scarry’s (children’s book) ‘What do people do all day’ shows a cartoon city, busy with people doing stuff like driving vehicles

finally someone is asking the important questions

In terms of buying spare parts for things which still work fine, I sometimes feel like a citizen of the Soviet Union. And this is not me saying the USSR and capitalism are essentially the same. This is me saying throw-away culture s*cks. (I am trying to find a fitting lid for my thermos...)

It is those times again when it is better to read the news with some delay. In the beginning of #нетвойне it was 2 to 3 days later, now with Trump it is four days. I am about to raise it to 5. And we are only in the second month of this madness... #academicchatter

Silent Zoom co-working sessions, everyone.

Can't decide if this is the most timely or untimely book announcement.

Как мы жили в СССР: разговор с Дмитрием Травиным Подкаст — как мы жили в ссср: разговор с дмитрием травиным

Not excatly a #newbookalert, but: nlo.media/catalog/umny...

"How did the Russo-Ukrainian war become possible, and what role did ideology play in enabling it?"

This is the question that begins this superb analysis by Marlene Laruelle of the networks, structures & beliefs of the current Russian state.

Just published by Stanford University Press.

Everyday Politics in Russia What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want something…

E. P. Thompson was born 100 years ago today. My forthcoming book *may contain traces* of Thompson. As Denys Gorbach's book is perhaps the first Thompson-inspired work on today's Ukraine, so is mine on Russia. www.bloomsbury.com/us/everyday-...

And suddenly what seemed like an outrageous sum and a sneaky way of introducing a moneyless society was so incredibly modest...

In 1960 the there were plans to pay Soviet workers 1300 rubles in 1980. In the first moment when reading this I thought: fantastic! They wanted to make money redundant by essentially flooding their society with it. But then I realized: Shoot! 1960. Old rubles, before the reform of 1961.

I made a book!

It’s about the wild Russian book industry as the Soviet Union fell; it’s got interviews with authors, publishers, and critics, close readings and bestseller stats—all while showing how capitalism emptied out Russian culture and how it might be coming for us next.

The ethnographic research by PS Lab about ordinary #Russian's support of the #war is making international headlines, e.g. @newyorker.com just published an interesting long read. The dataset (75 semi-structured interviews, 3 ethnographic diaries) is on Discuss Data: discuss-data.net/dataset/0842...

Socialist Historian E P Thompson, working from home Wick Episcopi, Worcester, New Musical Express, c1980

kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/s...

Buryat saying pre-1917: "May you have (many) horses to tie to the tethering-post. May you have (many) sons to enter the army." And during socialism: "May you have (many) horses to tie to the tethering-post. May you have (many) sons to work in the Party Central Committee." #skystorians

Olessia’s book is out! Can’t wait to read it
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Most Essential Workers Click on the article title to read more.

on Alissa Klots' wonderful book on Domestic Service in the Soviet Union.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#skystorians #gender #newbookalert

Wendy Goldman at her best: 'Like the ever-adaptable cockroach predicted to outlast nuclear war, women’s responsibility for household labor will also likely survive the big blast. When the dazed human survivors crawl out of the rubble, women will undoubtedly have to clean up the mess." In her review

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Когда вернётся 2003? Или хотя бы 2013?

A Tale of Two Nationalisms | The Eurasian Knot

Did another podcast! It was a particular pleasure to talk to Sean Guillory for @euraknot.bsky.social, a podcast I have long listened to myself!
shows.acast.com/eurasian-kno...