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Bryan Gigantino

@bryangigantino.bsky.social
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Historian, writer, researcher : USSR, Georgia, South Caucasus and Eurasia. Co-producer: Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reima… Lecturer @ Georgian-American University, Tbilisi.

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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We have many new episodes of Reimagining Soviet Georgia in the works - and today we’re happy to release one of them! Episode 49: History and Anti-Communism with Stefan Gužvica podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you missed it before, check out my review article in Kritika Journal - “Sabchota Sakartvelo: Entitled Nationhood, History and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia”
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Great article on the recent wildcat strike at the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine in Armenia, and what it can tell us about the country’s political economy and working class politics. lefteast.org/baron-helmsm...
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‘’Baron helmsmen, don’t spread lies’’: A miners’ strike brings attention to Armenia’s industrial exploitation problem - Lefteast
From January 31st to February 10th, workers at the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) in southern Armenia, the country’s largest mining company and its biggest taxpayer, went on a wildcat strik...
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Great stuff by @almutrochowanski.bsky.social on @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about foreign funding, NGOs and civil society jacobin.com/2025/02/west...
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Western-Backed NGOs: A Hollow Version of Civil Society
Donald Trump’s moves to dismantle USAID clearly aren’t driven by fears of infringing on other nations’ sovereignty. Still, we should recognize that Global South NGOs’ reliance on Western donors hinder...
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
After a two month winter break, an new episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia is up and ready! Episode 48: Marxism and Academia in Soviet Georgia with Bakar Berekashvili podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Had the pleasure of meeting Henri at his apartment in Paris one year ago, he gave me some books from his personal library and told me some stories. RIP.
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Colonizers, get out!” Georgian SSR, 1960 By Giorgi Firtskhalava
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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The new issue of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian is out featuring articles by Lewis Siegelbaum, Ann Komaromi; @faithhillis.bsky.social and @vhtroyansky.bsky.social; reviews by @bryangigantino.bsky.social and others. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53729
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Project MUSE - Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History-Volume 25, Number 4, Fall 2024
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My review article “Sabchota Sakartvelo: Entitled Nationhood, History and Memory in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia” is now out in Kritika - Fall 2024, Volume 25 Number 4
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Radio War Nerd @radiowarnerd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Radio War Nerd EP #483 — Georgia Elections & Precarious Neutrality, feat. Sopo Japaridze www.patreon.com/posts/radio-...
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Mark Ames @markames.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨🚨NEW Radio War Nerd up! We talk to Sopo Japaridze about Georgia's elections & endless political precarity in a targeted country amid US imperial decline. www.patreon.com/posts/radio-...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Meet this week’s guest! 🌟 @bryangigantino.bsky.social is a historian of the South Caucasus and Eurasia, who co-hosts 'Reimagining Soviet Georgia,' a podcast with the aim of recontextualizing Georgian history. Welcome to the Eurasian Knot, Bryan! patreon.com/posts/georgia-in-116245715
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What is the context for the recent crisis in Georgia? This week, we turned to @bryangigantino.bsky.social, co-host of podcast 'Reimagining Soviet Georgia,' to explain the complex issues that are shaping the country's social, political, and economic fate. patreon.com/posts/georgia-in-116245715
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New episode with @bryangigantino.bsky.social on the political crisis in Georgia. In it we talk about his excellent Jacobin article "In Georgia, a National Election Is a Geopolitical Struggle" jacobin.com/2024/10/geor... Listen! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Georgia in Crisis | The Eurasian Knot
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Here’s my interview with Artemy about the wonderful book euraknot.org/2018/10/13/d...
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Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan - The Eurasian Knot
Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The uprising against the dictatorship in Greece took place between the 15th and 17th of November 1973. 50+1 years later to the day, a three-part exploration of the most important events will be published on my Substack. This is the first instalment. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/the-1973-u...
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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
FT coverage of the EU’s seppuku continues. I’m sure this has happened before, but I note that today this point shifted from the opinion page to the news page.
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Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
jacobin.com/2024/10/geor... I got to this a little late, but this longish read by @bryangigantino.bsky.social offers a detailed, thought-provoking and nuanced overview of #Georgia's elections and the geopolitics behind them. Recommended.
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In Georgia, a National Election Is a Geopolitical Struggle
Georgian liberals hope Saturday’s election will see a shift toward pro-EU parties. Yet the Georgian state’s dependence on bigger powers is making the country’s politics part of a wider geopolitical co...
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Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
New Episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia Episode 30: Anti-Colonial Bolshevik Historiography with Alexey Golubev www.patreon.com/posts/92093928
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