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Jeremy Morris
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Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.

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Jeremy Nigel Morris is a British historian, Church of England priest and academic. He specialises in church history. From 2014 to 2021, he was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Previously, he was Dean of Trinity Hall from 2001 to 2010, and Dean of the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge from 2010 to 2014. .. more

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Mar 23
Reminder that this is now out in hardback and softback as well as ebook formats. Link in the next post.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 7d
Hi Sven, I think part of the problem is the ever narrowing sense of specialization among experts and researchers.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 8d
Another excellent blog post from @jeremymorris.bsky.social about the perils of positivism and the grave insult / misunderstanding inherent in dismissing ethnography as "anecdotal." Also, the article features a half naked lady. Something for everyone.

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Ethnography (about Russia) is not anecdotes
one of the main problems of the monocrop ‘Russia expertise field’ is its frequent distance, disdain or condescension towards its subject matter. Externally-imposed theories and even domestically co…
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 9d
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
Ethnography (about Russia) is not anecdotes
one of the main problems of the monocrop ‘Russia expertise field’ is its frequent distance, disdain or condescension towards its subject matter. Externally-imposed theories and even domestically co…
postsocialism.org

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d
"When I present my work, it often meets incredulity or hostility, even among fellow social scientists. I can’t tell you how many times my work has been downgraded to ‘that’s just an anecdote’". Link to a rant in the next post.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d
No, I'm not the owner of the McFlud Telegram channel entirely devoted to his bloopers.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 15d
The legend that is Mr Tickle.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 15d
As the grim darkness descends on Europe (minus Russia) with its insistence on an observing an archaic October clock-ritual, why not brighten your evening with these three blokes talking about which Ru-adjacent journalists and pundits they despise the most. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGP...
Why Russia Experts Get Russia Wrong | Russia Unfiltered #4
YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 16d
90% of publications now fit this description tbf

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 16d
Nods

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 23d
Reupping: "Russia has moved towards a much more rigid ideological structure and has an official ideology, but at least to this reader, the book, with its repetition of the terms 'repertoires' and 'plasticity', seems to argue for something different"

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 26d
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Is ‘Putinism’ a coherent ideology? Do Russians identify with it?
Laruelle admits, the vast majority of Russians sense a lack of a state ideology. Her jobs then is to try to reconstruct something resembling a coherent set of beliefs or a world view and show how i…
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 26d
New post - a mammoth, though partial, review of Marlene Laruelle's new book on Putinism as ideology. I find a lot to like in her 400 page meticulous treatment, but also a bit of a gap between her final thesis and her evidence. Link in the next post.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 6
Re-uping

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=icO5...
Is It Okay to Like Russia? | Russia Unfiltered #1
YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 6
So we decided to do a YouTube. Three guys talking about Russia.
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 4
great example of alternative data science

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · Oct 3
In our new issue, @jeremymorris.bsky.social explains how the Kremlin manufactures and enforces consent for a war that benefits few Russians.
Maintaining the IllusionRussian Society After Three Years of War
Well into the fourth year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian society remains largely compliant, even though few have benefited from the conflict. The working poor who make u...
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 3
The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...
The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia
Irritation and isolation is the flipside of the ‘comfort’ culture. And perhaps what partly feeds demand for it. Most of all, though, war supporters feel lonely.
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 2
By this decommunization logic, anyone who did any cultural production which saw the light of day between 1917-1991 is a collaborator with a colonial authority? Jeez, good luck with your postcolonial nation building!

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 2
Like, no shit, Sherlock! Nowhere can the article admit that Shepitko was not just a Soviet filmmaker, but one of global stature in the 20thC. What a shame on (and for) Ukraine.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 2
Ukrainian nationalists - aren't you going to run out of 'bad' Soviet Ukrainians soon? photo-lviv.in.ua/u-lvovi-demo...

"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"
У Львові демонтували меморіальну дошку радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько • Фотографії старого Львова
У Львові, на вулиці Ковжуна, 8, демонтували меморіальну таблицю, присвячену радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько. Ця подія стала результатом піврічної
photo-lviv.in.ua

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Oct 1
Volodya Z, you say?

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Sep 30
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2025.2483712
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Sep 30
Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Sep 30
From www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia
Russia is a global forerunner in cryptocurrency adoption. This paper explores how cryptocurrency, as a techno-economic actant, informs the way Russians strategize their lives and imagine alternativ...
www.tandfonline.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Sep 30
Current reading: Crypto in Russia:
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · Sep 29
Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…
Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Sep 28
less than in inch between that wank and anti-miscengenation laws.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Sep 28
'How cultivated and sensitive -or how superficial - must his Anglo-Saxon readers be, to have accepted this fascinating artist.' - Stefan Napukski