Pasta and Sugar, Not Navalny, Are Putin’s Main Worries
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In late 2020, food prices and the Russian citizens’ access to staple foods have emerged as one of Putin’s main concerns. Over the last year, the price of pasta…
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Event (Feb. 18): Sources of Reform in Russia: Celebrate Three New Books with the Authors
Join us for a book launch featuring new books from Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, Bryn Rosenfeld, and David Szakonyi. In Reform and Rebellion in Weak States, Evgeny Finkel and Scott Gehlbach…
Reform and Rebellion in Weak States
NEW BOOK! Throughout history, reform has provoked rebellion – not just by the losers from reform, but also among its intended beneficiaries. Finkel and Gehlbach emphasize that, especially in weak…
Evgeny Finkel wins 2018 Rothschild Prize; Honorable Mention given to Mikhail Alexseev and Sufian Zhemukhov
The winner of the 2018 Rothschild Prize is Evgeny Finkel for his book: Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (Princeton University Press 2017). …
Finkel: Many Soviet/post-Soviet US immigrants embrace Republican values to escape “anything that smacks of socialism”
(Business Insider) During the last election, many of the 800,000 Russian speakers in the US embraced Trump out of disgust for the socialist values that made them flee the Soviet republics. Particularly…
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (New Book)
This book focuses on three Jewish communities—those of Minsk, Kraków, and Białystok—to try to understand why Jews in these communities had very different responses when faced with similar Nazi policies.…
Finkel: Trump’s status as a Washington outsider is a big part of his appeal to voters who remember life in the Soviet Union
(Quartz) “I think he represents what I am for,” says Sirota, her eye fixed on the window facing the street, watching for potential customers. “I like what he promises, I…
(In)discriminate language on Gaza
(The Washington Post) (Co-author Sarah E. Parkinson) Though Marc Lynch recently lamented that political scientists are having “the same arguments in the same terms” when it comes to Israel-Palestine, other discourses…