Here are two videos from a talk I gave with Mitchell Orenstein for the Universität zu Köln back in December and last week’s bookstore event with Lea Ypi.
Project Syndicate Op-Ed Translated into Russian →
Почему восточноевропейцы не вакцинируются?
New opinion piece for Project Syndicate →
Why Won't Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?
Nov 8, 2021
KRISTEN GHODSEE, MITCHELL A. ORENSTEIN
The region’s high degree of vaccine skepticism and surging death rates do not reflect the lingering effects of decades of communist rule, but rather the decades-long social consequences of its collapse. Many countries in the region have not yet reversed the profound erosion of public trust that began after 1989.
New podcast on Taking Stock of Shock with Reimagining Soviet Georgia →
A new interview about Taking Stock of Shock on the Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcast.
A new review of Taking Stock of Shock →
Architects of socialism built the Berlin Wall, symbolizing political unfreedom. When it fell, new walls emerged. Architects of neoliberal capitalism have built walls made of precarity and inequality, limiting what Eastern Europeans could do with their newly gained freedom. Scholarly walls separating disciplines inhibit us from correctly gauging the post-socialist landscape. Ghodsee and Orenstein’s new book, Taking Stock of Shock (Oxford University Press, 2021) breaks down these disciplinary walls and presents the most comprehensive assessment of the post-socialist transformation yet.
Read moreA nice review in the weirdest of places... →
I honestly have to admit that I never in my life thought anything I wrote (or even co-wrote) would receive a positive review in The American Conservative : Helen Andrews, “Making Sense Of Red Nostalgia” July 13, 2021
Andrews clearly understood the message the of the book and appreciated our critique of the Clinton policies of the 1990s. About the only point where I disagree with is her is her characterization that this is somehow my book. It was fully co-authored with my wonderful colleague at Penn, Mitchell A. Orenstein, with the invaluable help of our research assistant, Nicholas Emery, who is now a Ph.D. student in Political Science at UCLA.
The physical copies have arrived!
The actual copies of Taking Stock of Shock arrived in the mail yesterday. Writing is such a weird profession, because of all of the delayed gratification. You can go months or years without having a publication, and then they all start coming out at the same time.
Proposed cover design for Taking Stock of Shock
I just received this proposed cover design for my forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, co-authored with my Penn colleague, the political scientist Mitchell A. Orenstein. This is my original photo from Romania in 2012.
Letter: EBRD must own up to the failure of its policies →
My letter to the editor with my colleague at Penn, Mitchell Orenstein
