Jeremy Morris
@jeremymorris.bsky.social
Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
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@jeremymorris.bsky.social
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Reminder that this is now out in hardback and softback as well as ebook formats. Link in the next post.
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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.
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
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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…
postsocialism.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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.
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
"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.
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"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.
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
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
90% of publications now fit this description tbf
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
90% of publications now fit this description tbf
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"
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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"
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.
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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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terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt
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
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
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
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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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...
online.ucpress.edu
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In our new issue, @jeremymorris.bsky.social explains how the Kremlin manufactures and enforces consent for a war that benefits few Russians.
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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October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...
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"
"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
October 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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"
"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"
Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"
disappearance and endurance"
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"
disappearance and endurance"
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]"
"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]"
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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]"
"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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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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September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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…
Re-Reading Conrad and always struck by his eternally contemporary relevance: the British are 'a people which has made a bargain with fate and wouldn't like to be rude to it.'
September 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Re-Reading Conrad and always struck by his eternally contemporary relevance: the British are 'a people which has made a bargain with fate and wouldn't like to be rude to it.'
We did an author meet and book exchange yesterday in salubrious surroundings. Bonus was the cosplay Peaky Blinders bloke. From some angles he looked like Lenin.
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We did an author meet and book exchange yesterday in salubrious surroundings. Bonus was the cosplay Peaky Blinders bloke. From some angles he looked like Lenin.
Well overdue article: "The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia" by Sanshiro Hosaka
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Well overdue article: "The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia" by Sanshiro Hosaka
The dangers of pundits and self-congratulatory analysis.(Yes, this is an Ian Bremmer subtweet).
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The dangers of pundits and self-congratulatory analysis.(Yes, this is an Ian Bremmer subtweet).
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
Re-upping because the algo punishes links. Saturday coffee/other beverage reading about how postmodern authoritarianism is not about hard coercion or regime ideology but far more insidious.
Comfort is maintained by a neocolonial service class. But it’s also about the ‘doxa’: the naturalized and inevitable order: everyone has their labour price, and if yours is low, it’s the Red and White for you.
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...
‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II
Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one
postsocialism.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Re-upping because the algo punishes links. Saturday coffee/other beverage reading about how postmodern authoritarianism is not about hard coercion or regime ideology but far more insidious.
Comfort is maintained by a neocolonial service class. But it’s also about the ‘doxa’: the naturalized and inevitable order: everyone has their labour price, and if yours is low, it’s the Red and White for you.
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...
‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II
Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one
postsocialism.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Comfort is maintained by a neocolonial service class. But it’s also about the ‘doxa’: the naturalized and inevitable order: everyone has their labour price, and if yours is low, it’s the Red and White for you.
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...
The responses to this on the 'other site', whether critical or responsive are pretty poor. Is mass, public housing near to jobs and transit better than a world of intentional scarcity and financialized private housing? Yes, even if it's a bit shitty. Funny that these aren't even bad examples here.
September 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The responses to this on the 'other site', whether critical or responsive are pretty poor. Is mass, public housing near to jobs and transit better than a world of intentional scarcity and financialized private housing? Yes, even if it's a bit shitty. Funny that these aren't even bad examples here.
Did a post - on how values-based or ideological approaches to regime legitimacy in Russia have a big blind spot postsocialism.org/2025/09/12/c...
Comfort-class authoritarianism, not ideology, supports the status quo in Russia
A comfort class ‘uber’ type taxi in central Moscow, with a backdrop of boulevard bars and eateries. What are the sources of social coherence and stability in Russia, three-years and six…
postsocialism.org
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Did a post - on how values-based or ideological approaches to regime legitimacy in Russia have a big blind spot postsocialism.org/2025/09/12/c...
"the sanctions regime looks like it has been outsourced to an intern with no language skills or subject-matter expertise, who spends their days surfing Twitter, looking for outrage du jour. Even as symbolic effort, Chechnya and Ukraine deserve better." newsletter.threatologist.com/posts/the-in...
The infuriating inconsistencies of the sanctions system
The UK realises Aymani Kadyrova is not a nice person.
newsletter.threatologist.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
"the sanctions regime looks like it has been outsourced to an intern with no language skills or subject-matter expertise, who spends their days surfing Twitter, looking for outrage du jour. Even as symbolic effort, Chechnya and Ukraine deserve better." newsletter.threatologist.com/posts/the-in...
Colleagues often criticise my argument that the most salient discourse in Russia is Social Darwinism. But even people from exile do it 'automatically'. Like this for the Telegraph. Link in next post. [and I'm presenting on this Saturday for anyone in Sofia BG]
September 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Colleagues often criticise my argument that the most salient discourse in Russia is Social Darwinism. But even people from exile do it 'automatically'. Like this for the Telegraph. Link in next post. [and I'm presenting on this Saturday for anyone in Sofia BG]