Nostalgia, Nationalism and the New Russia
Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis talks to Tribune about the war in Ukraine, the politics that produced that disaster – and the complexities of nationalism in Putin’s Russia.
3 Articles by:
Giuliano Vivaldi
Giuliano Vivaldi is a translator, blogger and writer on cultural issues. He is currently completing translations of the works of Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov and the contemporary leftist thinker Ilya Budraitskis, as well as translating (jointly with Tom Rowley) the writings of the murdered anti-fascist lawyer, Stanislav Markelov.
Italy’s ‘Accidental Deaths’
50 years ago, the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan began Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’. Responses to the bombing and its aftermath would define Italian culture for decades to come.
You Cannot Even Imagine Us
Pavel Arseniev’s poems of solidarity and alienation illuminate the often-bleak realities of contemporary Russia.