Youth
From the Komsomol Archive
By Sean at 14 December, 2009, 6:28 am
Today, I began research on Komsomol participation in collectivization and found this little tidbit in the archive.
Read More >>Yakemenko Loves You
By Sean at 10 December, 2009, 12:00 pm
Vasili, Vasili, Vasili. How far you’ve fallen. To think that only a few years ago you were the leader of your own youth army, Nashi. Now, you’re just a bureaucrat. As for Nashi, with the “orange threat” vanquished, their only presence in Russian society is to pull pranks (some of which I admit are funny), [...]
Read More >>Access to Fading Lives
By Sean at 1 December, 2009, 10:34 pm
HIV-AIDS is something that hits close to my heart. My brother died of the disease in 1993. One of my earliest blog posts way back in 2005 addressed the issue in Russia. Sadly, the situation here has little improved though the UN reports that the number of global HIV infections has dropped 17% in the [...]
Read More >>Revolutionary Manliness
By Sean at 2 November, 2009, 12:51 pm
For those interested in a taste of my academic work, I’ve contributed an entry called “Revolutionary Manliness” to the Soviet history site Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. If you register, and you should because the site is a wonderful resource especially for instructors, you can check out the accompanying source, “Klasha the Komsomol Girl.” Here [...]
Read More >>“The leading fighting brigade of our political system.”
By Sean at 5 October, 2009, 10:49 pm
It looks like Nashi might have crossed a line in their campaign against Alexander Podrabinek. According to Vremya, the Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation made an official appeal calling for an investigation of Nashi’s “illegal and amoral” campaign to hunt down the journalist. The appeal reads:
The [...]
Kebab House of Comedy
By Sean at 5 October, 2009, 12:28 pm
Russian politics is a joke. I’m not being sarcastic. It really is funny. Perhaps in an effort to one up the inanity of American politics (as we all know Russians just want to be like us!), or because it has a fatuous dynamic of its own, what passes for the political over there often epitomizes [...]
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