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Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 1d

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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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI: join us next Friday! The workshop schedule and speakers are now on the registration page.

Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 12d

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).

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 6d

All in the name of objective rankings for the sake of rankings, apparently.

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 8d

Free to access for one week:

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.

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 15d

Ooph, my condolences.

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 15d

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).

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 19d

The first award will be made in 2026 for articles published this year!

Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 19d

🚨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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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 19d

America is having its Kukly moment.

Meduza in English @meduza.io · 19d

Russians say the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show feels familiar. Here’s what became of the country’s TV comedy shows that dared to criticize the Putin administration.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...

‘Americans, don’t take this sitting down’ Russians say the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show feels familiar. Here’s what became of the country’s TV comedy shows that dared to criticize the Kremlin. — Meduza

On Wednesday evening, the American TV network ABC announced that it was indefinitely suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show. The news came just hours after the head of the FCC, the…

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 21d

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

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 20d

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Canadian Slavonic Papers @canslavpapers.bsky.social · 21d

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.

slavists.ca

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Sep 3

That was a colleague's book. As a political scientist, I'm more likely to keep history books so I can continue pretending to read them.

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Sep 2

Clearing the brush from my bookshelf, I find myself throwing out a lot of work from late-90s/early-00s on institutional choice, Duma committees, and federalism.

All things that ultimately mattered for just a short period in Putin’s Russia.

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Aug 28

Before the re-launch of @cpcs.bsky.social in 2020, it was on life support with a backlog of 200 unprocessed articles and decision times of 18-24 months!

Today, we get 180+ submissions per year, decision times are at 63 days, and the Impact Factor has nearly doubled since 2021.

Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · Aug 28

The CPCS Editor's Report 2025 is now available for download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qo-S...

A short highlight thread:
🔸2024 Impact Factor ↗️ 1.3
🔸2024 Immediacy Index ↗️ 1.1
🔸2024 Scopus CiteScore ↗️ 2.4

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Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · Aug 28

The CPCS Editor's Report 2025 is now available for download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qo-S...

A short highlight thread:
🔸2024 Impact Factor ↗️ 1.3
🔸2024 Immediacy Index ↗️ 1.1
🔸2024 Scopus CiteScore ↗️ 2.4

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Aug 13

Glad to have the chance to talk about Putin, Trump, and Ukraine today, alongside Peter Schturyn. Our segment starts at about 37:00.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

What We Know About the Chikungunya Virus Spreading in China

Podcast Episode · Fight Back with Libby Znaimer · 2025-08-13 · 52m

podcasts.apple.com

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Aug 13

The presence of Ukraine war veterans continues to increase at every level of government in Russia. War veterans may soon be the regime's second largest institutional base of support, just behind the ruling party United Russia. Don't expect Putin to suddenly stop the war because Trump asked nicely.

The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · Aug 13

Election authorities said over 1,000 veterans are running for local office in 67 regions, while two are running for governor.

1.6K Ukraine War Veterans Nominated for Russia’s 2025 Regional Elections - The Moscow Times

More than 1,600 Russian soldiers who fought in Ukraine have been nominated as candidates in the 2025 regional and local elections, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Wednesday.

www.themoscowtimes.com

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Lanabi @lanabi.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨📢 New article out!

"Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies"

(AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :)

Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · Jul 23

Looking forward to today's panel on "Russia's War Narratives and the West" at #iccees2025!

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