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Similarities Between Putin’s Russia and Late Imperial Japan: Backgrounds and Implications
Why are the claims and actions of Japan in the 1930s and Russia today so similar, despite vast differences between eras, cultural backgrounds, and underlying economic structures?
Tracing Communism’s Reach, 100 Years After the Russian Revolution: An Interview with Joshua Tucker
Was Fukuyama right? Did communism die with the Soviet Union? Your answer may depend, in part, on your definition of what it means for an ideology to be “living.” But...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Hacker: Russia and the U.S. Economic Espionage Act
An improved Economic Espionage Act would address not only the jurisdiction of hacks, but also the definition of hacking.
On Cumulative Ideology
This past June — a moment since blotted out by geopolitical horrors large and small — Vladimir Putin sat down with NBC’s Megyn Kelly for an interview subsequently lambasted as...
The McCold War: Everything Old Is New Again
The 1990 opening of McDonald's in Moscow hardly heralded the "end of history," not did it usher in an era of peace and prosperity. But it did indicate that Soviet...
Very Nice! (Russia's Alien Nations)
Borat exemplifies a particular kind of Soviet and post-Soviet shame