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There and Back Again
By Sean at 3 October, 2009, 10:00 am
It has been a long haul and I’m slowly crawling out of my hole.
For those who don’t already know, I filed my dissertation, We Shall Refashion Life on Earth! The Political Culture of the Communist Youth League, 1918-1928, on Monday. The process of filing was a bureaucratic nightmare in and of itself. Back and forth [...]
Boris the Pant-less
By Sean at 21 September, 2009, 4:57 pm
I don’t have a lot of time for blogging these days. The finishing touches on the dissertation (one . . . more . . week), job applications, and getting ready to spend the next year in Russia fill up all my time. Inevitably commenting on missiles, Medvedev the modernizer, not to mention Moscow’s Holy Father [...]
Read More >>An American Physicist in Tuva
By Sean at 17 August, 2009, 12:22 pm
Richard Feynman, famous American physicist, atom bomb maker, father of nanotechnology, and Tuva lover. Feynman discovered the remote region and its nomadic people from stamp collecting during the dark days of the Cold War. Feynman began a long correspondence with one of its residents. Feynman wanted to visit Tuva, but never did. The Cold War [...]
Read More >>Stephen Cohen tells RT: “Biden can’t control his mouth”
By Sean at 6 August, 2009, 1:34 pm
Nikita Khrushchev Doesn’t Go to Disneyland
By Sean at 24 July, 2009, 9:06 am
I highly recommend “Nikita Khrushchev Goes to Hollywood” from the Smithsonian Magazine. Khrushchev, always the showman, charmed, bantered with American capitalists, and even took in the filming of Can-Can during his tour of America in 1959. When the Soviet premier went to Hollywood, hundreds of stars appealed for tickets to attend a luncheon with him. [...]
Read More >>Swine Flu Lands in Moscow
By Sean at 1 May, 2009, 4:42 pm
Hypochondriacs beware! Swine flu has officially landed in Moscow. According to Novyi region, two women have been hospitalized in the capital. “Both women are citizens of Russia. One of them arrived in Russia from New York yesterday, the second today. They had fevers and were admitted to the hospital by our insistence,” Gennadii Onishchenko told [...]
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