ASEEES Blog

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Disaster, An Interview with Serhii Plokhii

Andrew Jack's interview with Serhii Plokhii, author of Chernobyl: The History of Nuclear Disaster, and recipient of the 2019 Pushkin House Book Prize.

The Far-Right Reads Solzhenitsyn

Lynne Viola on the Foreward by Jordan Peterson in the Vintage Classics abridged edition of The Gulag Archipelago.

Of Revolutionaries and Realists: Russian-Armenian Relations since the Velvet Revolution

Stephen Badalyan Riegg on the changes in the relationship between Russia and Armenia after the "Velvet Revolution" which followed the 2018 leadership change in Armenia.

Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev: Changes for Researchers

Sarah Cameron on the changes in Kazakhstan after the surprise resignation of Nazarbayev from his presidential role.

War on the Academy: The Hungarian Government’s Crackdown on Research Freedom

Stefano Bottoni writes about the government of Hungary's encroachment on foreign institutes of higher education operating in Hungary.

Who’s Laughing Now?: What Volodymyr Zelensky's Presidential Win May Mean For Ukraine Studies

William Jay Risch's article on the political rise of comedian and entertainer Volodymyr Zelensky

The Prozhito Web Archive of Diaries: A Resource for Digital Humanists

A project dedicated to collecting, editing and organizing Russian and Ukrainian language diaries.

Recent Preservation Projects: From the Slavic and East European Materials Project

Details on SEEMP's efforts to preserve and acquire sources of materials related to Slavic and East European studies.

Losing Pravda, An Interview with Natalia Roudakova

Excerpts of Sean Guillory's interview with Natalia Roudakova, author of Losing Pravda.

The Magnitsky Act-Behind the Scenes

Choi Chatterjee discusses the Magnitsky Act-Behind the scenes with the director, Andrei Nekrasov.

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