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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hello, new friends! To introduce myself, I work on comparative politics with a focus on Russia. My main areas are authoritarianism, nationalism, and propaganda & disinfo since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022. I'm also Editor-in-Chief of @cpcs.bsky.social. 1/3
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Well that was fun. Bluesky is pretty much X now with a coat of paint.
January 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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As a citizen, I’m all for this.

As a comparativist, name one time that telling authoritarian incumbents you’ll throw them in prison has worked out. If you thought J6 was bad…
kenjennings.bsky.social Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 15d
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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The truth is that no AI company wants you to run a local AI, most consumers and enterprise will keep paying for subs, and the niche group of AI developers need hardware with gobs of memory not useless NPUs. There is no actual market for "AI PCs."
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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An appropriate way to start the new year!
cpcs.bsky.social Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 17d
Recently published:
Dear Compatriots: New Year Speeches as Sites for Post-Soviet Political Communication Available
by Adam Lenton & Akbota Karibayeva

Free to access for one week! 👇

doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
This article offers a comparative analysis of post-Soviet leaders’ new year addresses to the nation. As highly prominent, programmatic speeches, such texts provide a unique and valuable basis for examining insights from literatures on authoritarian political communication and regime legitimation. Collecting 152 new year addresses from across the region (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan), we find systematic differences in leaders’ political communication depending on the openness of the regime, both in ordinary times and during global crises such as COVID-19. Autocrats’ acknowledgment of mass unrest, however, is less consistent, which we argue reflects broader uncertainties in the political as seen in our case comparisons of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan. Across all our cases we find leaders increasingly using new year addresses to articulate claims about the identity of the state and the nation, (re)interpreting its history, past achievements, as well as defining a vision of the future. Moreover, these visions coalesce around unitary understandings of the nation, replacing multiethnic narratives of the immediate post-Soviet period. The unique status of the new year as one of the most enduring “invented traditions” of the Soviet Union provides an important lens to assess continuity and change across the region.
January 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Teaching graduate-level "Russian Domestic Politics" for the first time since... (checks notes) 2019?! Yikes.

Time to start a new syllabus from scratch. Topics and readings attached for the morbidly curious.
January 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Took some time off for the holidays, returned to my inbox to find another senior scholar throwing a tantrum because I desk rejected their screed. To be clear, by saying that I'm "obsessed with theory," this author was referring to my suggestion that, you now, they should have one.
January 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Today I had the honor and privilege of talking to students of Invisible University for Ukraine about everyday nationalism. Many thanks to Viktoriya Sereda for the kind invitation and to her fantastic students who raised some fascinating questions.
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Getting ready for another morning making the rounds on CBC radio to talk Ukraine-US-Russia: Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, Quebec City, Cornerbrook/Gander, Moncton, Saskatoon, Whitehorse, Winnipeg, Yellowknife, Kelowna, Kamloops, Vancouver.
December 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Go home, Wiley. You're drunk.
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Going back on CBC Radio's Just Asking this afternoon together with Robert English to talk about Russia and Ukraine: www.cbc.ca/radio/justas...
What questions do you have about ending the war in Ukraine? | CBC Radio
Russian studies professor Paul Goode and International Relations expert Robert English answer your questions about the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. In hour two, what questions do you have ...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Waiting for the inevitable picture of Trump standing in a wheatfield.
anydoubts.bsky.social Any Doubts @anydoubts.bsky.social · Dec 5
The same thirst for awards. 🙄
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Personally, I kinda think it looks more like the FIFA Zombie Apocalypse Prize.
pwnallthethings.bsky.social 2026 all the things @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Dec 5
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
FIFA peace prize
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Great to see this issue is finally online. We're getting a lot of excellent research so we tried to cram as many articles as we could into the last issue before the holidays.

Check it out: online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/issue/5...
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Making the rounds on CBC radio this morning to talk about Witkoff, Russia, Ukraine, and back channel diplomacy. Three interviews down, eleven to go!
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Find me on the ASEEES conference program or shoot me a note if you’d like to chat!
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reposted by Paul Goode
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Free to access for one week:

Russian Business and the Authoritarian Welfare State: Corporate Social Programs as Legitimation for Companies and the State
by Ulla Pape

👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

#Russia #authoritarianism #welfare #legitimation
Authoritarian regimes widely involve non-state actors in social welfare to increase output legitimacy and regime stability. Despite the volume of corporate social investments, the role of private companies in authoritarian welfare is still poorly understood. This study analyzes the functioning of corporate social programs in the Russian authoritarian welfare state by focusing on corporate grant competitions and corporate volunteering as means of engaging both the local population and the companies’ employees in the regions. Drawing on stakeholder theory, it investigates how companies position themselves as welfare providers and how they legitimize their role with regard to key stakeholders, including state officials, employees, and the local population. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with company representatives and key stakeholders in four Russian regions: Kemerovo, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, Tiumen′, and Volgograd. In addition, corporate social reports from 2018 and information for beneficiaries were evaluated to identify program guidelines, motivations, and stakeholder assessments. The study argues that companies play an important role as welfare providers through the financial support of social organizations and employee initiatives at the regional and the local level. By providing social investments in geographically defined “territories of presence,” Russian companies pursue a double legitimation strategy, both demonstrating their social responsibility and loyalty toward the regime and strengthening authoritarian welfare provision through private social investments. With a detailed analysis of corporate social programs, this study contributes to our understanding of the specific conditions and mechanisms of social policy in authoritarian regimes and the place that companies occupy within it.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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13 years ago, shortly after announcing that he would run for a 3rd term as president, Putin was booed live on national television. The booing was edited out of re-broadcasts, but censors couldn't edit out the nervous glances of the people on the stage with him.

youtu.be/nS48UuVXbjQ?...
Putin 'booed' at Moscow martial arts event
YouTube video by euronews
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November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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New in Advance Articles:

Melting Points: Furnace Technology at the Crossroads of Socialist and Georgian Imaginaries
by Tamar Qeburia

👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
This article examines the historical trajectory of the closed-top electric furnace (CTEF), an industrial technology designed to revolutionize metallurgical smelting in Soviet industrial manufacturing. By tracing the CTEF’s evolution from initial proposal through experimental trials to its ultimate resolution through Japanese technology importation, this study illuminates the inherent contradictions within the Soviet system and situates metallurgical innovation within the broader political context of de-Stalinization. The CTEF project emerged during a critical period when Soviet technological priorities were being redefined, offering an illuminating case study of post-Stalinist scientific enterprise. Through analysis of primary source materials, this work reveals how Georgian scientists strategically navigated the institutional landscape of the era, leveraging Soviet policy frameworks while pursuing professional advancement and cultural aspirations. These scientists legitimized their work not only through economic justifications—particularly the potential for waste gas utilization in the chemical industry—but also by deliberately connecting their innovations to Georgia’s ancient metallurgical heritage. The technological solutions they developed exemplified the socialist approach to science while reflecting systemic contradictions that highlighted the persistent gap between ambitious political directives and practical realities. By focusing on this single industrial innovation, the article provides nuanced insights into the complex negotiations between regional scientific communities, industrial priorities, and central state power within the Soviet Union’s pursuit of technological progress and national development.
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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As a professor, the most common advice to grad students is to identify a gap in the existing scholarship for your research.

Not once did I ever think the gap was "the role of fungi and, specifically, the entheogenic mukhomor," and now I'm insanely jealous.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
A Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P - Volume 84 Issue 2
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November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Free to access for one week:

Witnessing the Crisis: The Political and Ethical Challenges of Migration Regime Activist Research at the Polish-Belarusian Border
by Justyna Straczuk

From the new issue's themed section Emergency Response Research and Documentation.

doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Witnessing the CrisisThe Political and Ethical Challenges of Migration Regime Activist Research at the Polish-Belarusian Border
This article analyzes the epistemological and ethical challenges and difficulties of conducting research on the humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border from the dual perspectives of the re...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I'm guessing Harvard alumni in the GOP view this as a genius move to increase the perceived value of their degrees by leveraging scarcity.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Free to access for one week:

Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher: The Case of Polish Researchers Interviewing Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland
by Elżbieta Kwiecińska & Małgorzata Łukianow

From the themed section on Emergency Response Research and Documentation.

doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Multiple Positionalities of a ResearcherThe Case of Polish Researchers Interviewing Ukrainian War Refugees in Poland
In the midst of an ongoing war, oral history interviewers bear a particular responsibility toward vulnerable groups they are working with. As Polish scholars, we were an outside privileged group unaff...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Oh I remember this. Gorby was surrounded by profs who wanted him to sign their books (Alex Pravda had a stack of them). Gorby finally lost patience and burst out, "Where are the young people?!" And so our lowly MPhil cohort was allowed to come forward and meet him.
www.sant.ox.ac.uk/anniversary/...
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre: 2000-2025 - St Antony's
The Russian and East European Centre (as it was called for its first fifty years) at St Antony’s was established in 1953. This was three years after the College opened its doors to its earliest studen...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Still time to register for tomorrow's workshop!
jpaulgoode.bsky.social Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Sep 26
For those of you in Ottawa on October 10th, save the date!

"Disinformation, Propaganda, and Russia's War on Ukraine," sponsored by SSHRC and the McMillan Chair in Russian Studies.

The workshop will be open to the public, registration required.

Details 👇
carleton.ca/eurus/cu-eve...
Russia’s disinformation concerning its war in Ukraine remains a significant challenge for Canada and for the international community. This workshop brings together academic and policy perspectives from Canada, the United States, and Europe, in understanding the reach and effectiveness of Russian disinformation and propaganda. The sessions will consist of three panels devoted to emerging research on disinformation, policy and practitioner perspectives, and countering disinformation. This event is sponsored by SSHRC and the McMillan Chair in Russian Studies. For more information or queries, please contact Prof. Paul Goode (paul.goode@carleton.ca).
October 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Free for one week! The next article in Emergency Response Research and Documentation in Comparative Perspective:

Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies
by Natalia Otrishchenko, Artem Kharchenko, Valentyna Shevchenko

doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation ProjectIntertwined Experiences and Methodologies
This article covers the experiences of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, most of whom were internally displaced scholars, in one of the projects documenting the Russian war in Ukraine. It refl...
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM