Jacobin Radio, Long Reads: Kristen Ghodsee on the Lost World of Bulgarian Communism, September 25, 2021
Overdetermined: A Rethinking Marxism Podcast, Vol. 1, Episode 2, September 24, 2021
Spring reading: Gender, Generations, and Communism
I am so happy I get to write “Spring Reading” since we are officially in the spring of 2021. This was an interesting edited collection with a wide variety of perspectives on the historical memory of communism in Eastern Europe.
“…[T]oday anticommunism is part of the mainstream public debate in many countries of Central and Eastern Europe; it is also part of the identity politics of many milieus, groups, and socio-political movements, including women’s movements.”
“...the biographies of women who belonged to the pre-war communist generations are often perceived as biographies of losers, who wasted their lives in the fight for a misguided cause.”
TikTok shout out →
So I do not have this app nor really understand how it is different from Vine, but I scored some major points with my teenage daughter for getting name checked in this TikTok. So thank you Sally for this very important public service announcement!.
Reading Bogdanov's Red Star
The grades are all in and the reviews done, so I finally have a little time for reading. I finished this amazing book last night. So prescient!
My new article in the Baffler →
My newest article: “An American Tale: How Cold War Officialdom Made the World Safe for Propaganda” is online as of today!
