Marci Shore
@marcishore.bsky.social
Historian, professor, author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution;" "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism;" "Caviar and Ashes."
Thank you to @terrelljstarr.bsky.social in Kyiv for cheering me up today. I think we should counter Putinist and Trumpist performative sadism with more performative multilingualism and friendly encounters with strangers over mulled wine.
Black guy from New York speaks Georgian to a Ukrainian woman on New Year’s Day. 😊🇺🇦 🇬🇪🇺🇸 #ukrainianview
January 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Thank you to @terrelljstarr.bsky.social in Kyiv for cheering me up today. I think we should counter Putinist and Trumpist performative sadism with more performative multilingualism and friendly encounters with strangers over mulled wine.
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia has hailed the troops fighting his war in Ukraine as sacred heroes. But confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal a pattern of brutality and coercion in the ranks that is hidden from the Russian public. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has hailed the troops fighting his war in Ukraine as sacred heroes. But confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal a pattern of brutality and coercion in the ranks that is hidden from the Russian public. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"The practice he was describing has become so common in the Russian military that it has its own name: obnuleniye, or 'zeroing out.' It can mean lethal orders designed to get soldiers killed by the enemy. Or it can involve the direct killing of soldiers by their fellow troops on the battlefield."
How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers (Gift Article)
Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:08 PM
"The practice he was describing has become so common in the Russian military that it has its own name: obnuleniye, or 'zeroing out.' It can mean lethal orders designed to get soldiers killed by the enemy. Or it can involve the direct killing of soldiers by their fellow troops on the battlefield."
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"If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss." @marcishore.bsky.social in #IWMPost @iwm.at
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In a Post-Truth World: The Fate of Birth, Death, and Other Boundaries
If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
www.iwm.at
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss." @marcishore.bsky.social in #IWMPost @iwm.at
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"Russian commanders threaten their own soldiers with death so often that the killings have their own name — 'zeroing out.'"
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Russian commanders threaten their own soldiers with death so often that the killings have their own name — 'zeroing out.'"
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"« S’il n’y a pas de frontière entre le réel et l’irréel, le bien et le mal, la vie et la mort, alors rien n’a de sens, et nous sommes confrontés à un abîme nihiliste. » Marci Shore
👉 La Russie.
www.iwm.at/publication/...
👉 La Russie.
www.iwm.at/publication/...
In a Post-Truth World: The Fate of Birth, Death, and Other Boundaries
If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
www.iwm.at
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"« S’il n’y a pas de frontière entre le réel et l’irréel, le bien et le mal, la vie et la mort, alors rien n’a de sens, et nous sommes confrontés à un abîme nihiliste. » Marci Shore
👉 La Russie.
www.iwm.at/publication/...
👉 La Russie.
www.iwm.at/publication/...
I have never seen a look of contempt as pure as the look in this Ukrainian soldier’s eyes when he faced his Russian captor about to execute him.
Three years ago on this day.
Soldier Oleksandr Matsiyevsky had his last cigarette at his surrounded dugout, shouted “Glory to Ukraine!” and was executed by Russians on the spot.
He lives on with us all forever ever since that day.
#VPDFO, #SlavaUkrainai, #RealHero
Soldier Oleksandr Matsiyevsky had his last cigarette at his surrounded dugout, shouted “Glory to Ukraine!” and was executed by Russians on the spot.
He lives on with us all forever ever since that day.
#VPDFO, #SlavaUkrainai, #RealHero
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I have never seen a look of contempt as pure as the look in this Ukrainian soldier’s eyes when he faced his Russian captor about to execute him.
A synthesis of denial and performative sadism.
This dancing is on top of the theater in Mariupol where hundreds of children were sheltered and killed by Russians. They rebuilt the theater and are hosting parties.
December 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A synthesis of denial and performative sadism.
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"Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera."
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way.
Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera."
Americans: this is our tax money being used to pay the guards in El Salvador to keep immigrants on their knees for 24 hours and lock them in boxes with no ventilation. We are all implicated in this, just as "ordinary Germans" were implicated in Auschwitz.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Americans: this is our tax money being used to pay the guards in El Salvador to keep immigrants on their knees for 24 hours and lock them in boxes with no ventilation. We are all implicated in this, just as "ordinary Germans" were implicated in Auschwitz.
For Turkish-speakers interested in the aftereffects of the Soviet experiment today:
💬Sovyet imparatorluğu 34 yıl önce çöktü!
Prof. Marci Shore: “Sovyet deneyi, yalnızca siyasal sistemi yeniden kurma girişimi değildi. Bu, insanlık tarihindeki en derin, en radikal ve en büyük ölçekli toplumsal mühendislik girişimiydi.”
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Prof. Marci Shore: “Sovyet deneyi, yalnızca siyasal sistemi yeniden kurma girişimi değildi. Bu, insanlık tarihindeki en derin, en radikal ve en büyük ölçekli toplumsal mühendislik girişimiydi.”
www.perspektif.online/tarihin-omle...
Tarihin Omleti: Kırılan Yumurtalar, Kalan Sessizlik - MARCI SHORE, CİHAT ARPACIK
Bir imparatorluğun kuruluşu ile çöküşü aynı ayda hatırlanırken, Sovyet deneyiminin geriye bırakları hâlâ canlı. Marci Shore, Bolşevik devrimcilerin zihinsel dünyasından totalitarizmin insan öznelliğin...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For Turkish-speakers interested in the aftereffects of the Soviet experiment today:
"It's because you do good work."
‘It’s because you do good work’
By targeting the CEO of The Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Trump regime is caught in another big lie
By targeting the CEO of The Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Trump regime is caught in another big lie
‘It’s because you do good work’
By targeting the CEO of The Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Trump regime is caught in another big lie
www.bettedangerous.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"It's because you do good work."
With thanks to Canada's Global Television Network for streaming this when CBS censored it--and to the students at the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley who are doing the work to learn the truth.
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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December 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
With thanks to Canada's Global Television Network for streaming this when CBS censored it--and to the students at the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley who are doing the work to learn the truth.
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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Crises tend to correlate with intense literary activity, but not necessarily with intellectual perspicacity. Our picks of 2025 have clearsightedness in abundance – as do all the articles Eurozine has had the privilege to publish in the past year. www.eurozine.com/our-picks-of...
Our picks of 2025
Crises tend to correlate with intense literary activity, but not necessarily with intellectual perspicacity. Our picks of 2025 have clearsightedness in abundance – as do all the articles Eurozine has ...
www.eurozine.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Crises tend to correlate with intense literary activity, but not necessarily with intellectual perspicacity. Our picks of 2025 have clearsightedness in abundance – as do all the articles Eurozine has had the privilege to publish in the past year. www.eurozine.com/our-picks-of...
These days it dies surprisingly often in broad daylight.
The Trump censorship complex strikes again. Trump’s corporate collaborators suppress reports on his international network of human rights violators. Sometimes democracy dies in broad daylight.
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
These days it dies surprisingly often in broad daylight.
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As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
“Right before our eyes, a world order is being formed in which truth as a category does not exist.”--Oleksandr Mykhe
See illustration below:
See illustration below:
💥 “It’s not clear who attacked whom,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said today at a presser on the Russia–Ukraine war, after an EU summit where he opposed any financial help for Ukraine.
Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.
Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.
December 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“Right before our eyes, a world order is being formed in which truth as a category does not exist.”--Oleksandr Mykhe
See illustration below:
See illustration below:
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First question on KGB cognitive test is also a picture of lion, giraffe, fish & hippopotamus. They beat the shit out of you until you say the giraffe is the hippo.
Explains a lot tbh.
Explains a lot tbh.
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
First question on KGB cognitive test is also a picture of lion, giraffe, fish & hippopotamus. They beat the shit out of you until you say the giraffe is the hippo.
Explains a lot tbh.
Explains a lot tbh.
Thank you!
Reading Marci Shore's @marcishore.bsky.social THE UKRAINIAN NIGHT. The way Shore juxtaposes affective, personal histories with national epic history is uncanny. Each informs the other: what emerges is a rich and multi-dimensional account of Ukrainians' lived experience of their 2014 revolution.
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thank you!
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The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history.
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University of Toronto - Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History | H-Net
The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Ukrainian History. The appointment will be at t...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history.
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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OTD in 1878 Stalin was born. We have to pretend we are liberating Ukraine from Nazism cos we have not yet liberated ourselves from Stalinism.
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
OTD in 1878 Stalin was born. We have to pretend we are liberating Ukraine from Nazism cos we have not yet liberated ourselves from Stalinism.
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“Enough Ukrainians decided they were willing to risk their lives to overthrow tyranny, and that’s what they expect from the Russians.”
My conversation with @marcishore.bsky.social about the promise of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution & the nihilism of Russia’s war.
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My conversation with @marcishore.bsky.social about the promise of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution & the nihilism of Russia’s war.
meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
Historian Marci Shore reflects on the promise of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and the nihilism of Russia’s war — Meduza
When Ukrainians began protesting on Kyiv’s Independence Square in November 2013, historian Marci Shore was watching from Vienna. Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, had backtracked on signing...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“Enough Ukrainians decided they were willing to risk their lives to overthrow tyranny, and that’s what they expect from the Russians.”
My conversation with @marcishore.bsky.social about the promise of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution & the nihilism of Russia’s war.
meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
My conversation with @marcishore.bsky.social about the promise of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution & the nihilism of Russia’s war.
meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io
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Historian Marci Shore reflects on the promise of Ukraine's Maidan Revolution and the nihilism of Russia's war
Historian Marci Shore reflects on the promise of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and the nihilism of Russia’s war — Meduza
When Ukrainians began protesting on Kyiv’s Independence Square in November 2013, historian Marci Shore was watching from Vienna. Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, had backtracked on signing an Association Agreement with the European Union, triggering massive demonstrations that stretched on for days and then weeks. Faced with tens of thousands of protesters who refused to budge, Yanukovych deployed riot police units and hired thugs to disperse the crowds by force. But the violence only mobilized more people.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Historian Marci Shore reflects on the promise of Ukraine's Maidan Revolution and the nihilism of Russia's war