Anastasiya Osipova, a scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-founder of Cicada Press, speaks with NM from Kyiv, sharing her first-person insights on the Ukrainian/Russian border conflict as well as what the prospect of war does to one’s ability to communicate clearly, and how that shift impacts a society over time.

Recorded in 2 parts: Jan 29 / Feb 8

FOR MORE:

• Cicada Press

https://www.cicadapress.net/titles/

• Serhii Plokhy

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2021) 
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/serhii-plokhy/the-gates-of-europe/9781541675643/

Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation (Basic Books, 2017)

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/serhii-plokhy/lost-kingdom/9780465098491/

• Shaun Walker

The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (Oxford, 2018)
 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-long-hangover-9780190058845

• Stanislav Aseyv

In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard, forthcoming)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674268784

LA Review of Books intwv/ regarding Aseyv's imprisonment in the Izolyatsia concentration camp

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/violence-and-hope-in-ukraine-stanislav-aseyevs-the-torture-camp-on-paradise-street/

• notes on the right-wing and neo-nazi attacks on Ukrainian cultural venues 
https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/armed_dangerous/armed_dangerous-disrupt/

• roundtable w/ artist Nikita Kadan regarding Ukraine’s legacy of Soviet art

https://www.pastfutureart.org/en/discussion-the-kmytiv-experiment

• architect/artist Oleksandr Burlaka 
http://cargocollective.com/burlaka/bio

https://www.instagram.com/maidan_nezalezhnosti

• writer Yevgenia Belorusets 
https://www.ndbooks.com/author/yevgenia-belorusets/

https://www.isolarii.com/

https://belorusets.com/info/about

• Ilya Budraitskis

Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia(Verso, 2022) https://www.versobooks.com/books/3881-dissidents-among-dissidents

• Babi Yar

https://babynyar.org/en