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Reporting Russia's Descent
Marc Bennets has been reporting from Russia for over two decades. He’s covered Putin’s rise and consolidation of power, assassinations of op...
Boris Nemtsov
On the night of 27 February 2015, assassins gunned down Boris Nemtsov as he crossed the Bolshoi Moskvoretskii Bridge. Shock quickly spread t...
The Last Soviet Artist
I met the graphic artist, Victoria Lomasko, about 10 years ago when she was a resident at the City of Asylum in Pittsburgh. I emceed an even...
Remembering Alexander Rabinowitch
When I opened Facebook this morning, as I do every morning, I learned that Alexander Rabinowitch died at 91 years old. Rabinowitch was argua...
Anastas Mikoyan
How Stalin personally ran the Soviet Union has rightly received much attention. Less discussed is the small group of men that served as his...
Soviet Holocaust Literature
It has long been assumed that there was no Holocaust memory in the Soviet Union. Official Soviet ideology lumped the 1.5 million Soviet Jews...
The Russian Paradox
Many studies focus on how Russia doesn’t work and why. There’s a laundry list of reasons. Corruption. Autocracy. Imperialism. Exceptionalism...
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR
I went through my Kurt Vonnegut phase in my late teens. I read Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle , I think, Deadeye Dick , and of course, Slaughter...
The Post-Soviet Human Condition
The Eurasian Knot hasn’t featured many philosophers. So, when Ukrainian political philosopher, Mikhail Minakov, came to the University of Pi...
Bye, Bye Orban
On April 12, 2026, Hungarians overwhelmingly voted Peter Magyar into office ending the sixteen-year rule of Viktor Orban. It was a stunning...
The Georgian August 1924 Uprising
In August 1924, a group of rebels organized by the anti-Bolshevik Committee for the Independence of Georgia and led by the Georgian Social D...
The Edge of Sports
Spoiler alert. This episode has nothing to do with the Eurasian Knot’s usual fare. Dave Zirin was speaking at the University of Pittsburgh....
Russian and American Internal Colonization
About eight years ago, I interviewed Steven Sabol about his book, The Touch of Civilization . It was the first book I was aware of that comp...
Everyday Politics in Russia
What do Russians really think? The question is old and elusive. It is also somewhat of a tell–to pose it is to suggest there’s a coherent an...
Ukraine's Euromaidan
In the winter of 2013-14, protests erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine. Their goal was to oppose President Viktor Yanukovich’s rejection of the EU Asso...
KGB Same-Sex Honey Traps
One of the most salacious and storied methods of KGB spycraft during the Cold War was the honey trap. Agents would get an informant to seduc...
The Bolshevik Rank and File
In 1917, the Bolshevik Party had roughly 24,000 members. A decade later, it boasted about 1.2 million. Recruitment came in waves and so did...
Stalin's Last Days
Joseph Stalin died today, March 5, seventy-three years ago. So, I thought it would be a good idea to dig out, re-edit and remaster, the inte...
Searching for Belief during the Soviet End Times
When societies are in crisis, people tend to seek alternative belief systems to give them comfort, explain a complex world, or fill a space...