We have many new episodes of Reimagining Soviet Georgia in the works - and today we’re happy to release one of them! Episode 49: History and Anti-Communism with Stefan Gužvica podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

If you missed it before, check out my review article in Kritika Journal - “Sabchota Sakartvelo: Entitled Nationhood, History and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia”

Great article on the recent wildcat strike at the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine in Armenia, and what it can tell us about the country’s political economy and working class politics. lefteast.org/baron-helmsm...

Great stuff by @almutrochowanski.bsky.social on @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about foreign funding, NGOs and civil society jacobin.com/2025/02/west...

After a two month winter break, an new episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia is up and ready! Episode 48: Marxism and Academia in Soviet Georgia with Bakar Berekashvili podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Had the pleasure of meeting Henri at his apartment in Paris one year ago, he gave me some books from his personal library and told me some stories. RIP.

“Colonizers, get out!” Georgian SSR, 1960 By Giorgi Firtskhalava

The new issue of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian is out featuring articles by Lewis Siegelbaum, Ann Komaromi; @faithhillis.bsky.social and @vhtroyansky.bsky.social; reviews by @bryangigantino.bsky.social and others. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53729

My review article “Sabchota Sakartvelo: Entitled Nationhood, History and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia” is now out in Kritika - Fall 2024, Volume 25 Number 4

Radio War Nerd EP #483 — Georgia Elections & Precarious Neutrality, feat. Sopo Japaridze www.patreon.com/posts/radio-...

🚨🚨NEW Radio War Nerd up! We talk to Sopo Japaridze about Georgia's elections & endless political precarity in a targeted country amid US imperial decline. www.patreon.com/posts/radio-...

Meet this week’s guest! 🌟 @bryangigantino.bsky.social is a historian of the South Caucasus and Eurasia, who co-hosts 'Reimagining Soviet Georgia,' a podcast with the aim of recontextualizing Georgian history. Welcome to the Eurasian Knot, Bryan! patreon.com/posts/georgia-in-116245715

What is the context for the recent crisis in Georgia? This week, we turned to @bryangigantino.bsky.social, co-host of podcast 'Reimagining Soviet Georgia,' to explain the complex issues that are shaping the country's social, political, and economic fate. patreon.com/posts/georgia-in-116245715

New episode with @bryangigantino.bsky.social on the political crisis in Georgia. In it we talk about his excellent Jacobin article "In Georgia, a National Election Is a Geopolitical Struggle" jacobin.com/2024/10/geor... Listen! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Here’s my interview with Artemy about the wonderful book euraknot.org/2018/10/13/d...

Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk

The uprising against the dictatorship in Greece took place between the 15th and 17th of November 1973. 50+1 years later to the day, a three-part exploration of the most important events will be published on my Substack. This is the first instalment. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/the-1973-u...

FT coverage of the EU’s seppuku continues. I’m sure this has happened before, but I note that today this point shifted from the opinion page to the news page.

jacobin.com/2024/10/geor... I got to this a little late, but this longish read by @bryangigantino.bsky.social offers a detailed, thought-provoking and nuanced overview of #Georgia's elections and the geopolitics behind them. Recommended.

New Episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia Episode 30: Anti-Colonial Bolshevik Historiography with Alexey Golubev www.patreon.com/posts/92093928