Fallen Monuments, Then and Now
The USSR’s fallen monuments and failed reckoning offer lessons for our own near future.
I went there in 1991. Now I’m obsessed.
The USSR’s fallen monuments and failed reckoning offer lessons for our own near future.
Why do all these “little-known histories” of women leading outsized, daring lives in war and espionage slow to a trickle after Women’s History Month is over?
Twenty-five years ago today, tanks rumbled through the streets of Moscow. Do you remember where you were?
In “honor” of the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster…
On Emory University’s decision to shutter several academic departments, including my beloved Russian
A poorly-executed tribute to the McSweeney’s “Honest” series, with props to my beloved old Russian 101 primer (in which an early vocab word was “crane operator”).
On Victory Day in the former USSR
The Soviet Union crapped out 20 years ago. Who even remembers?