Can the economic model that developed in the USSR during the Stalin era be called successful? The idea about the model’s specialness is now being spread to audiences of millions, including YouTube channel IZOLENTA and “the Goblin” Dmitri Puchkov, and presented at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Richard Arnold explores Ukrainian and Russian Cossack identity historically and in today’s conflict. This is a PONARS Online Academy video designed to explain Russia-related issues to a broader audience through visuals.

How do we study Russia? What do we get, what did we miss? How can we reinvent the way we have been studying Russia? Mack Tubridy guides us through the main textbooks on Russia.

A compilation of online projects and podcasts to regularly follow to get a better understanding of Russia's history and Russia today.

A reference journal dedicated to studies in new imperial history and the interdisciplinary and comparative study of nationalism and nationalities in the post-Soviet space.

The UCL Press FRINGE series just released in open access "Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia" by Alexander Sasha Kondakov, based on an original methodology for studying "legal memes".

A new online project on the history of White Russian émigrés and their place in the transnational history of the far right in the twentieth century.

Lisa Surganova writes about the devastating effect that the war in Ukraine has had on the Russian film industry. As Western distribution companies have stopped working with Russia and the Russian government tightens censorship, a flourishing industry is rapidly coming apart.

Infographics are based on Rosstat data

A brief history of one of the most iconic Soviet cartoons and how the rebellious Wolf became a classic character on which Soviet generations grew up