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Prigozhin’s Plane, or, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Yevgeny Prigozhin has apparently died in a mysterious plane crash. So what does this all mean? Or, to put it more awkwardly and more precisely, what is this all going to mean?
The Post-Soviet Uncanny (Unstuck in Time)
The uncanny, c'est nous!
The Future Is Not Yet Written (Unstuck in Time)
I'm making up the introduction as I'm going along
The Future is Feudal (Unstuck in Time)
The medieval future, far from being always dystopian, might not even be that bad.
Tomorrow's Soviet Union Today (Unstuck in Time)
The Soviet conditional subjunctive is the result of a collective act of will
Quantum Leaps or Quantum Entanglement? (Unstuck in Time)
No one is at all bothered by the idea of paradoxes resulting from the deaths of butterflies, grandfathers, or Hitlers
Circle Games (Unstuck in Time)
Voting Putin back into the presidency made the equation between past and future more literal
Time Out of Joint (Unstuck in Time)
The manipulation of Russian historical precedent for present-day political gain is rather clear-cut
Time of Troubles; or, The Trouble with Time (Unstuck in Time)
The outcome of a Time of Troubles is a foregone conclusion
Scheduling Conflicts (Unstuck in Time)
On or about December 1991, the normal course of time in Russia stopped.
New Book, New Blog: Unstuck in Time
Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny, will begin serialization on Thursday
The Problem with Johnson's Russia List
This is not an antisemitic dogwhistle, it’s an antisemitic cowbell.
Navalny and the Boxers Rebellion
There is no scenario in which a sentence containing the name "Putin" and the words "Navalny's underwear" does the president any good.
The Lincoln Project's Red Scare
Russia always equals “communism,” even when that equation makes no sense whatsoever
Forgetting Eduard Limonov: The New York Times’ Obituary Epic Fail
Limonov was most famous for gay sex and supporting Bosnian genocide, neither of which the NYT saw fit to mention
Rereading Akunin: A Conversation with Eliot Borenstein
Fandorin is just not a joiner. And specifically, if there’s one principle to which he’s committed above all others, it’s this notion of “personal human dignity” and the individual's prerogative...
The Devil Is No Match for Procedural Liberalism (Pelagia and the White Bulldog (Conclusion))
The rule of law is boring, but necessary
Pelagia Descending into the Underworld (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 9)
Pelagia impersonates herself
Brother 2: Son of Brother (Russia's Alien Nations)
If we say (and show) enough times that there are no more questions that need to be asked about the nature and future of Russia, it will become true
Brothers and Keepers (Russia's Alien Nations)
Danila is a dangerous mixed metaphor: an empty vessel and a hired gun.