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Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy
Editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (@cpcs.bsky.social)
Co-lead of East European & Transatlantic Network (@eetn.bsky.social)
McMillan Chair of Russian Studies, EURUS, Carleton University
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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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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
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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.

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Putin 'booed' at Moscow martial arts event
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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.
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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...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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ICYMI: join us next Friday! The workshop schedule and speakers are now on the registration page.
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 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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All in the name of objective rankings for the sake of rankings, apparently.
October 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Introduction to the Special Section on "Emergency Response Research and Documentation in a Comparative Perspective"
by Natalia Otrishchenko & Anna Wylegała

👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
The escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine—an attack launched throughout almost all of its territory in February 2022—has triggered numerous initiatives aiming at documentation of war experiences through methods of interviewing. The war and refugee crisis in Central and Eastern Europe brings us closer to similar situations in different regions of the world, which also have been documented and researched. Our special section explores various methodologies of emergency response projects and traces how different positionalities are combined and contested during the unfolding conflict. While we focus on the Ukrainian case, our aim is to engage in dialogue with various geographies of the post-communist world, where researchers are (or were) exposed to straightforward challenges in terms of safety and security. We invited scholars who studied their own societies or communities they are related to; therefore, the duality between “insider” and “outsider” as well as the very concept of “field” as something external is challenged in their writing. Assembled articles make visible tensions inherent in the projects that document the present moment: between different roles researchers have, different ethical justifications and academic standards, different audiences and social groups scholars engage with. Following the question that Ghislaine Boulanger posed, “How do we fit our understanding of the individual survivor into the larger picture of a catastrophe without losing sight of individual struggle?”, authors show various possibilities of analytical work with collected materials and ways to conceptualize the experiences of both the interviewers and the interviewees who live through violent conflicts.
September 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
jpaulgoode.bsky.social
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).
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Immigrants to the UK also pay an "immigration healthcare surcharge". For a skilled worker, that's £1,035/yr plus visa fees (£769-£1,519 per person), and you still pay tax for NHS.

...Of course, that's a bargain compared to $100k for an H1-B visa in the US (and you're on your own for healthcare).
jhawn.bsky.social Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · Sep 23
What I think a lot of people in the UK don’t understand is they have a perfect or close to perfect immigration system. 95% of immigrants are high skill or paying massive fees to patronize UK centers of higher education. They all pay taxes to support the NHS (£2 billion a year) something like
September 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Important section of the latest CPCS, dedicated to the challenges of “emergency response research” by Ukrainian and Polish researchers following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
cpcs.bsky.social Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · Sep 22
The September issue is now online! Featuring a special section on "Emergency Response Research and Documentation in Comparative Perspective," with guest ed.s Natalia Otrishchenko and Anna Wylegała

The section draws on the experience of Polish and Ukrainian research teams following Feb 2022.
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Table of Contents for September issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies
September 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Looking forward to today's presentations in this conference. I'll be talking about research agendas and methods in Russian studies since 2022 and will be sharing the findings a bit later.

The first panel will be live streamed, for any interested parties:
harriman.columbia.edu/event/harrim...
Harriman Carnegie Corporation Russian Studies Capstone Conference
Please join the Harriman Institute for the Carnegie Corporation Russia Studies Capstone Conference.
harriman.columbia.edu
September 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The first award will be made in 2026 for articles published this year!
cpcs.bsky.social Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · Sep 18
🚨Announcing the CPCS Global Collaborative Research Award. 🚨

The award is unique in recognizing and promoting cross-regional collaboration in published research on the communist or post-communist world.

More details are 👇
online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/pages/g...
Global Collaboration Research Award | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | University of California Press
Global Collaboration Research Award | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | University of California Press Global Collaborative Research Award   Description   Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) and the University of California Press value the diversification and platforming of voices and perspectives of scholars from all regions who contribute to, and engage with, international research on the communist and post-communist world. In furthering this goal,...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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America is having its Kukly moment.
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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New in Advance Articles (Open Access):

Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict: Trilateral Identifications, Fear, and Agency in Russia-Georgia Relations Post-Crimea
by Julie Wilhelmsen & Salome Minesashvili

online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
Proxy Games and Freezing ConflictTrilateral Identifications, Fear, and Agency in Russia-Georgia Relations Post-Crimea
This article argues that conflicts can be frozen through engagement in mutual trilateral identification games that marginalize lower-level political entities while elevating their danger through ident...
online.ucpress.edu
September 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I’ve been researching the impact of the war on Russian studies, looking at everything published in key journals since 2022.

I’ll share the findings later, but this much I can say for certain: the last thing we need is yet another IR think piece with no data or method. You’re not helping.
September 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Submissions for the 2025 CAS Undergraduate and Graduate Student Essay Contests are open! See our website for further details: slavists.ca/association/...
Student Essay Contest - The Canadian Association of Slavists | Canadian Slavonic Papers
Winners are recognized at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists, and each winner receives a one-year paid membership in the CAS.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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New in Advance Articles:

Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War
by Mukhammadsodik Donaev

doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War
This study examines how media literacy influences the perceptions of young people in Uzbekistan regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. With the media’s pervasive role in shaping public understanding of glo...
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM