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Thrilled to announce early access publication of my article, “The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism,” in The Russian Review. doi.org/10.1111/russ.... Happy to discuss with anyone interested in hero cults and Soviet spirituality!
21.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Russian Aviation Goes Dumpster Diving
Thwarting Sanctions Finally Gets a Reality Check
According to Rosaviatsiia, Russian airlines are going to lose a substantial number of aircraft by 2030. For what's going on and how they'll cope, see my latest substack post, "Russian Aviation Goes Dumpster Diving" (steveneharris.substack.com/p/russian-av...).
12.10.2025 18:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tallinn (opened 1980), by Mikhail Piskov. 📷 Enno Raag/Museum of Estonian Architecture. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/CwkNNANOwyL/
29.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Russia Faces the Air Travel Meltdown
They’re Getting More Frequent as Ukraine Continues to Fight Back
Russia's been facing a spike in air travel meltdowns lately. See my take on a substack post (open.substack.com/pub/steveneh...) about the state's approach to these crises with some historical insights from the Soviet past.
24.07.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🟥 Putin picks Trump over Iran
Hello and welcome to the first edition of our new English-language newsletter—your essential guide to Russian politics and economics.
🟥 Putin picks Trump over Iran open.substack.com/pub/faridail...
Not in the title, but this newsletter covers the Russian state's recent expropriation of Domodedovo airport and how its private owners' protection from Putin's inner circle ran dry.
21.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not By Planes Alone
Housing Also Helps to Bind Russians to Putin's Autocracy
How do mass housing and airplane engines explain Russia's wartime political economy? Glad you asked! See my answer on substack (open.substack.com/pub/steveneh...) where I look at why Rostec's chief Sergei Chemezov (pictured below) celebrated a happy housewarming with engine makers in Ufa.
19.07.2025 02:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Historian. Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. Currently working on spies, scientists, and Cold War fictions.
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The Journal of Slavic Military Studies investigates all aspects of military affairs in the Slavic nations of central and eastern Europe, as well as Eurasia, including adjacent themes of history, society, politics, economics, policy, and warfare.
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Foreign-language editions now in press/in print, including German: NICHT EINEN SCHRITT WEITER NACH OSTEN (Not One Step to the East), C.H. Beck, 2023
Canadian Slavonic Papers, founded in 1956, is a quarterly, interdisciplinary journal of the Canadian Association of Slavists, publishing in English and French.
The Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Historian of Imperial Russia & Caucasus at Texas A&M.
Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, Comintern, Russia's War in Ukraine; professor at Western University and King's University College. www.oleksadrachewych.com
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
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Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.
Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
Historian working on the social history of war in 🇱🇻🇷🇺🇩🇪. Book: Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026). Opinions my own, not those of my employer.
Historian working on Soviet collapse. Author of "Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." (OUP, 2023)
Researcher at Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki)
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