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Bradley Gorski

@bgorski.bsky.social
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Literature and capitalism, esp in Russia. Prof at Georgetown. Erstwhile union organizer.

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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the @kennaninstitute.bsky.social I wrote about White Nights and why we still read in 2026. Thanks to Michael Kimmage for the invite and Ron Meyer for talking to me about his wonderful translation of Dostoevsky’s classic. www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/dos...
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Dostoevsky Goes Viral — Kennan Institute
A TikTok-fueled surge in sales of Dostoevsky's White Nights shows that Gen Z still reads, and that young readers are turning to classic literature as a "distant mirror" for making sense of alienatio...
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For @thetls.bsky.social I wrote about the conflicted legacies of the Soviet empire in modernist culture and contemporary literature Books reviewed by Nariman Skakov and Tamar Koplatadze Thanks to Rebecca Reich for the invite! www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
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Anticolonial empire
When the literary theorist Victor Shklovsky travelled to Soviet Turkestan in 1929 to report on the triumphant construction of the Turksib railway, he
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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Red Migrations has received an honourable mention by the American Comparative Literature Association for the 2026 René Wellek Prize! Congratulations, @bgorski.bsky.social and @dr-tg.bsky.social! Learn more about the book: bit.ly/47aPhet #SovietHistory #EasternEuropean #MigrationStudies
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Happy to see the @newyorker.com got the description right. We’re in the middle of an outright assault on Higher Ed. Trump’s vindictive and illegal campaigns to destroy the best of our society are not “crackdowns,” they’re assaults, attacks, onslaughts.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Another reminder that it’s worth thinking about dissent in as many ways as possible these days. Resistance is always possible
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Great news! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I got to talk with Maria Lipman about my book last week. Check it out!
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Totally normal headline
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Masked agents kidnapping civilians, hanging 50 ft banners of the leader’s face, declaring war on an American city — that anyone can’t see this is evil is just insane
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Masked agents kidnapping civilians, hanging 50 ft banners of the leader’s face, declaring war on an American city — that anyone can’t see this is evil is just insane
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This guy says he wants universities to focus on the truth. Why wasn’t the question asked whether it bothers him that the political movement he has aligned himself with is based on a rigorously enforced lie?
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Universities: before you capitulate, remember that you’re up against a weak-willed petty tyrant who wasn’t able to face a stock market dip for more than a weak. He gives up all the time. He gives in all the time. He loses interest even more. Stand up. You’re stronger than this.
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Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Pretty much all US news items right now
Meme of Britta from the TV show community with the caption "I can excuse fascism but I draw the line at damaging the economy"
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I think this might actually be right
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If a pediatrician talking about children dying “might be perceived as anti-government,” maybe the problem is not with the pediatrician
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AAUP @aaup.org · 24/03/2025
TODAY @ NOON ET in NYC: COLUMBIA PROFESSORS TO HOLD EMERGENCY VIGIL AGAINST ADMIN CONCESSIONS TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Columbia gates at 116th & Amsterdam Ave (Not Broadway) • Hands Off Our Students, Faculty, & Research • Defend Science • Defend Academic Freedom • Defend Freedom of Speech
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Today is the official pub date for my book, Cultural Capitalism. Get out there and protest extra-judicial arrests, the concerted destruction of expertise and knowledge creation, the defunding of social services, the attack on freedom of movement, and the gentle compliance of the Democratic Party.
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Cultural Capitalism by Bradley A. Gorski | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Cultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bes...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
There is no word for this other than evil. Ukraine is being bombed daily by a leader who has engaged in war crimes. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Makes me want to read the whole collection cover to cover!
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I’m as disgusted as anyone with T&V’s behavior yesterday. But I don’t think Zelenskyy is getting his due. He wasn’t just the adult in the room. He handled himself with incredible dignity. He was walking into a trap. He knew it. He was prepared. And he refused to either back down or take the bait.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.
Office desk without any personal items or decor
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 30/01/2025
Random cover from the TBR pile: The Beasts by Leslie Garrett (1966) This first novel about a nice young man who gets involved in satanic orgies was selected as the "Maxwell E. Perkins Commemorative Novel" by Scribers. "Sorry about that, Maxwell," quipped one reviewer.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
To be fair, with equal evidence, I assumed it was because a lush is in charge at the pentagon and all government employees (including FAA) are scared for their livelihoods.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
What’s amazing about this is how narrow the band is. Record lows and highs are only 12 pts apart.
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Olga Skabeeva and pundit Spiridon Kilinkarov surmised that Donald Trump owes his presidency to Russia and should in return let them have all of Ukraine. youtu.be/tfF8VqKDs4I
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State TV says Trump owes his presidency to Russia
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@microsoft.com is charging you for AI you never wanted and didn’t ask for. If you don’t want to pay for this BS you need to go into your Office365 account and change your subscription to the cheaper option without AI. You were “upgraded” automatically.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I made a book! It’s about the wild Russian book industry as the Soviet Union fell; it’s got interviews with authors, publishers, and critics, close readings and bestseller stats—all while showing how capitalism emptied out Russian culture and how it might be coming for us next.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’m honestly scared after yesterday. I don’t see how democracy survives the next four years. But it’s more than that. We have a retributive police state with a self-fashioned messiah at its head. This is so obviously terrifying that the cheers behind the executive actions yesterday just ring evil.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ann Telnaes resigns after WaPo kills cartoon. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I have $200 to spend at Cambridge University Press. What should I get? Self-promotion welcome!
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Heading to #ASEEES in Boston in a couple of days! Anyone going to be there? Friday at 1:30, I’ll be chairing a discussion of our book Red Migrations (tinyurl.com/mwdj88) Sunday at 8am, I’ll be helping to launch the New Cambridge History of Russian Literature (tinyurl.com/5h7sy9ew).
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I picked up AS Byatt’s Possession without knowing anything about it. Started reading. And: what was going on in the 1980s that literary books about books and scholars could be bestsellers? Like what were we going through as a culture?
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Konstantin Sonin @ksonin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Across the Globe, thousands participated in marches against the Russia-Ukraine war and Putin's criminal regime organized by Yulia Navalny, Ilya Yashin, and other leaders of the Russian opposition today. In Chicago, hundreds showed up to say "Stop Putin, stop the war!"
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Moved here from that other place. ISO: -heated literary throw downs -juicy archival morsels -some sense of community that hasn’t (yet) been co-opted by fascism-curious billionaires
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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Slavic Nihilism By Artyom Trakhanov
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Organizing a series of conferences on perestroika and just blown away by the number and quality of submissions. Enough great papers for double to spots we have. Many from young scholars. The time seems ripe for reexamining the end of history.
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Bradley Gorski @bgorski.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Reading Intermezzo deliberately slowly. Savoring. But I think that’s not how Rooney works.
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