Richard Pipes, the Historian as Essentialist
For Richard Pipes, the anticommunist ideologue and historian, Soviet tyranny was rooted not in communism, but in the Russian soul.
5 Articles by: Sean Guillory
Sean Guillory is the host of the SRB Podcast, a weekly podcast on Eurasian politics, history, and culture and the digital-scholarship curator in the Russian and East European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Left in a Corner
Politically isolated and facing repression, the Russian left is pondering its future.
It’s the Series Finale for “That Putin Show”
Today’s election in Russia will bring another empty political spectacle to a close. But the contest over the country’s future will just be getting started.
Not Just an Artifact
The Russian left doesn’t just belong to the past. It can use the surge around Alexey Navalny to grow a new independent movement.
Dermokratiya, USA
With rampant talk of Russian interference, it’s worth recounting Washington’s role in undermining Russia’s 1996 election.