#OTD in 2017, white supremacists began a 2-day rally in Charlottesville, VA. Our Antisemitism Today lesson supports teachers & students in exploring the connections between Antisemitism & white supremacy using this event as one of four contemporary examples. Our goal is to help educators everywhere teach about the increase in Antisemitism using a relevant, engaging & effective resource.
Our Antisemitism Today lesson also makes a powerful combination with our lesson on digital literacy and online propaganda for Academy Award-winning documentary Navalny.
I'm all for peace @SearingTruth, but re #Ukraine. There's a reason why #Russia moved on Ukraine... You see Ukraine was creating it's own #Genocide in #Donetsk and #Luhansk. You know... Carpet bombing civilians and all that? Even CNN was reporting the carnage. Where were you in 2014? That's when this all started, so don't try CHERRYPICKING history or comparing the nation with the second largest army in the region to #Gaza#Palestinians and #Hamas. CNN Footage attached @appassionato@palestine
Delighted to share that ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ has been included in the reading list of the upcoming conference of the European Sociological Association. It’s possible to get a copy of my book with ESA30 30% discount code at the ManchesterUP website until 30.09.2024.
I've been diagnosed with Bertolotti syndrome. In simple words it's a some sort of a fusion between L5 vertebrae and a hip. Doctor says in the next 20 years I have a risk of paralysis, and a loss of ability to walk, since 2018 I have severe feet and lower back pain. Also doctor said that nobody does the surgery let alone proper rehab in my country - Russia. Idk what to do at this point.
I need help in searching any international organizations as a guarantor or something similar, that can help moving out of #russia due to medical and political reasons.
Thing is due to my health condition I have high chances to be left alone here to starve. I wrote around 250 emails to different organizations with little to no result 🥲
Any help or advice will be highly appreciated, ty! 💖
Nikolai Gogol's satirical classic Dead Souls (1842/1961) is (in the first 2/3) a highly effective & biting satire on the pretensions & idiocies of the landed class in C19th Russia. However in the unfinished 2nd part, he sadly seeks to humanise & dignify his anti-hero, which under-cuts the satire & leaves the narrative as one of agriculture improvement. My recommendation: only read the completed first part, which is great.
Huge Soviet-era monument taken down in Kyiv as Ukraine continues 'derussification' #TheArtNewspaper
“A Soviet-era monument believed to glorify Ukraine’s ties to Russia is being dismantled on orders of the Kyiv city government in the latest stage of derussification following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv’s Department of Territorial Control announced the start of the monument’s removal in a Facebook post on 30 April, stressing its massive size: “The sculptural composition is large, consists of about 20 elements weighing between 6,000kg and 7,000kg each. Due to the complexity of the design, dismantling may take a few days.””
I forgot how much I hated the sound of that fucking idiot fake cowboy’s voice. Rich bitch from New England playing at being a working class Texan. That’s not even considering his stupid pablum bullshit about sensing Putin’s soul.
Also this doc has gone well off the rails of history and into modern information campaign stuff. No mention of red mercury, no mention of the IMF/World Bank, no shock here.
I’m glad they’re talking about the certificate scam in ‘90s Russia, but something tells me they aren’t going to talk about the American role in forcing that asinine bullshit through the IMF and World Bank.
I never realized how close the Kurils are to Japan. Leaving aside, y’know, all of Russian and Japanese history prior to 1945, no wonder the Americans were so keen on becoming friends with Japan after the war.
Even if we definitely should have insisted on more trials of murderers and criminals like Shiro Ishii.
How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings
"Ibn Fadlan’s first-hand account of the Rus and their funerary rituals has secured his reputation as an important source for the study of ritual and belief across the Viking world. Nowhere else do we encounter eyewitness insight into this kind of Viking funerary ritual."
In the new episode of New Books Network, we’re discussing my new book ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ together with sociologist Dr. Anna Zhelnina. Enjoy listening to our conversation!
Today in Labor History March 30, 1856: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War, between Russia and the victorious Ottoman Empire (allied with the UK, France and Sardinia-Piedmont). The flashpoint was a conflict over the rights of Christian minorities in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, and control of its holy sites.
The Crimean War was one of the first to utilize modern armaments, like explosive shells, railways and telegraphs. Much of these armaments came from Alfred Nobel’s family armament factory. It was also a particularly deadly war. Around 670,000 soldiers died in only four years, the majority from preventable infectious diseases (e.g., typhus, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery), not from battle wounds. Mortality rates for soldiers were 23-31%, compared with U.S. troop mortality rates of only 2% during the Vietnam War.
In the aftermath of the Crimean War, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. out of fear that the UK would simply take it from them in their weakened military state. The last living veteran of the Crimean war was a Greek tortoise, named Timothy, who had served as a ship’s mascot during the war. He died in 2004, nearly 150 years after the war ended. Despite their victory, the Ottomans gained no new territory, and the war nearly bankrupted them, contributing to their decline as a super power. The Crimean War also helped forge the alliances and grievances that would lead to the First World War, and quite likely to the conditions leading up to Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea and its current fight with Ukraine.
Florence Nightengale became famous as a nurse during this war. Tolstoy fought in the 11-month Siege of Sevastopol. His experiences in this war contributed to his pacifism and anarchism. After witnessing a public execution in France, one year after the Crimean War ended, he wrote, “The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.” The war also influenced his novel, “War and Peace.”
Book review #14 for 2024 Richly written, well documented, and informative. This book was not just about three hundred years of Russian history. It is also about Russia today and the deeply rooted reality of the bent, if you will, toward the continued existence of the single strong ruler a century after the demise of the Romanov dynasty.
☕☕☕☕ review #books#romanovs#russianhistory#russia#history@bookstodon@books
It's not often I stumble across Russian #GameStudies
In 2021's "Game Room" (Игродром), author Alexander Vetushinsky delves into #Gaming's cultural impact through the lenses of philosophy, psychology and media theory.
Billion Dollar Spy · A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War.
5 stars from me for "The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen:
As an American, this was a fascinating and educational read. It fills in the blanks left by our myopic media and provides context to events that were quite mysterious and unexpected at the time that I was living through them.
To have finished the book, which closes describing scenes in Moscow in December 2011, when Alexei Navalny was leading hopeful protests against the Putin regime, on the same day that the news of Navalny's death in prison reached me, seems cruel, but entirely fitting. In these passages, Gessen notes that Putin and his allies were slow to recognize the danger they were in, and predicted that when they did, they would lash out violently, like a cornered animal. Perhaps with a terrorist attack, like the ones the KGB engineered against the Russian people in 1999 - 2000, when Putin was first running for president. But no. Putin started a war.
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