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Incommensurate Russia
in NLR 94, July-August 2015, pp. 5-44
Subjects: History and Historiography , Soviet Union and Russia
With the collisions over Ukraine, the contradictions in Russia’s relations with the West have been sharpened by sanctions and economic crisis. Perry Anderson on the spectre of Great Power status that still informs the post-multinational nation—and why, despite all the Kremlin’s attempts at integration with the US–EU, the country remains indigestible.
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Putin's World Outlook
in NLR 88, July-August 2014, pp. 55-66
Subjects: Soviet Union and Russia
Former Kremlin advisor and election manager offers a unique account of the Russian leader’s ideological formation and worldview. A Soviet-realist analysis of the failings of the USSR and the actual motivations of the capitalist states.
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Ukraine's Fractures
in NLR 87, May-June 2014, pp. 7-33
Subjects: Soviet Union and Russia
Antecedents and aftershocks of the Maidan protests. A Ukrainian sociologist discusses the riven political and ideological landscape laid bare by the fall of Yanukovych, and the tensions being stoked in the country’s east by Russian interference and Kiev’s ongoing military assault.
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Annexations
in NLR 86, March-April 2014, pp. 5-13
Subjects: Soviet Union and Russia , International Relations
After decades of connivance with territorial seizures from Palestine to East Timor, the West rediscovers the principle of state sovereignty in Crimea. The actual record of 20th-century land grabs, and the cross-cutting geopolitical pressures bearing down on Ukraine.
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Mexican Notebooks: 1940–1947
in NLR 82, July-August 2013, pp. 31-62
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Communist Movement , Soviet Union and Russia
Recently discovered diaries of the exiled novelist, with portraits of associates past and present, reflections on the Second World War, and vivid descriptions of the country where Serge lived out his final years.
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In Soviet Arcadia
in NLR 75, May-June 2012, pp. 119-127
Subjects: Literature , Soviet Union and Russia
Fredric Jameson on Francis Spufford, Red Plenty. A documentary-cum-fable reconstructs the lost future of the Khrushchev era.
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Collapse as Crucible
in NLR 74, March-April 2012, pp. 5-38
Subjects: Soviet Union and Russia
While Russia’s anti-Putin demonstrations have prompted talk of a civic awakening—led by a flat-pack middle class—the country’s overall social landscape remains largely unmapped. Tony Wood surveys its shifting structures since the Soviet collapse, and the consequences of marketization’s advance through the USSR’s ruins.
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On the First Socialist Tragedy
in NLR 69, May-June 2011, pp. 31-32
Subjects: Soviet Union and Russia , Environment
Reflections from 1934 on man, technology and the dialectic of nature. Frailties and dangers of our advance within—and against—an unyielding environment.
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Two Revolutions
in NLR 61, January-February 2010, pp. 59-96
Subjects: China , Soviet Union and Russia
How to explain the opposed outcomes for communism in Russia and China, after 1989? Classes and leaders, anciens régimes and external settings, examined in comparative perspective.
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Marx and Montage
in NLR 58, July-August 2009, pp. 109-117
Subjects: Aesthetics , Cinema , Germany , Soviet Union and Russia
The author of Archaeologies of the Future unearths fragments from ‘ideological antiquity’ in Alexander Kluge’s recent film on Capital. Encounters with Eisenstein’s unrealized equivalent, seeking a cinematic transposition of the commodity fetish.
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