A substack of personal musings on Marxism and what it means to be a revolutionary in 2024. I am a Professor and an environmental historian of Russia and Europe.
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Chapter One: In the Context of Empire
The Empire in Crisis, Revolution, and War
A History of Russia (Substack eBook)
Greetings everyone,
I’m writing to inform you of a new project I will be posting on here. In the past few months, I’ve received a lot of requests on “good” (i.e. leftist) Russian/ Soviet history books. While there are certainly a few out t...
NEW Soviet Cinema Course
When I wrote Fear Before the Fall, I really wanted to treat the introduction of Horror films into the Soviet cannon as a product of larger socio-cultural changes. The truth is that all Soviet films reflect their time and place in important...
The Curious Case of Graham Platner
Some years ago I ran a relatively popular fanzine, Punks Around – where my Instagram handle comes from. By “relatively popular” I mean I distributed it to 36 states, spent around $1500 to print, assemble, and ship, and just about broke even...
New Course! Reading Capital Volume 1 (June 2026)
Please read the instructions for enrollment carefully...
This is a nine-week course that meets once a week for nine consecutive weeks. We will go over the history and contents of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1. We will cast a vote for a day...
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Cultural critic, environmentalist, theory head, and socialist with a PhD in the history of Modern Russia and Environmental History.
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