Sopo Japaridze
Old school socialist. Unionist (Union thug). Listen to our podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia @reimaginingg https://t.co/CYaAnXLamG
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My article is out in Monthly Review! βI too had been influenced by anticommunist history. Soviet Union had been often depicted as an immense, inhumane state, indifferent to its c...
"Liberalism Against Itself" by Samuel Moyn has a chapter on Hanna Arendt - who I hate the most. It's aptly titled "White Freedom." Here are some good passages from it: "But even...
A new study came out: An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths...the first quantitative analysis of the asso...
I have been busy and off Twitter while traveling to Belgrade. Meanwhile, everything happened. So let's talk about foreign agent law and the two bills proposed by a conservative fra...
"On that day [1989], Shevardnadze visited the NATO headquarters in Brussels for the first time, to meet with its Secretary General, Manfred WΓΆrner. When the Soviet entourage arrive...
I watched the 5-part BBC documentary series "Once Upon a Time in Iraq," told from the perspective of journalists, civilians, and soldiers," (read: US friendly). It got me thinking...
Yesterday a friend literally said βIsnβt it paradoxical that Asia would have laws that favor women?β I was shocked. She really believes Asia is this backward place and only Europe...