Kristen Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women.
Mar 15, 2022 considers social factors that may have made Ukraine seem vulnerable to Russia, identifies socialist-era policies that countries today should adopt, and highlights how that era was better for women in one key sense.
Nov 8, 2021 & argue that low inoculation rates reflect not the legacy of communism, but rather the legacy of its collapse.
Nov 1, 2019 & note that in many post-communist countries, GDP per capita remains below its level 30 years ago.
May 15, 2019 & warn that a new wave of prohibition portends a future of maternal death, bad sex, and wrecked relationships.
