Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 19/03/2025We 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... 152
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 26/02/2025If 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” 131
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Great 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...lefteast.org‘’Baron helmsmen, don’t spread lies’’: A miners’ strike brings attention to Armenia’s industrial exploitation problem - LefteastFrom 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... 000
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Great stuff by @almutrochowanski.bsky.social on @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about foreign funding, NGOs and civil society jacobin.com/2025/02/west...jacobin.comWestern-Backed NGOs: A Hollow Version of Civil SocietyDonald 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... 065
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 07/02/2025After 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... 141
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Had 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. 020
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024“Colonizers, get out!” Georgian SSR, 1960 By Giorgi Firtskhalava 162
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoAlex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 26/11/2024The 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/53729muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History-Volume 25, Number 4, Fall 2024 095
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 21/11/2024My 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 4 020
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoRadio War Nerd @radiowarnerd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Radio War Nerd EP #483 — Georgia Elections & Precarious Neutrality, feat. Sopo Japaridze www.patreon.com/posts/radio-...patreon.comRadio War Nerd EP #483 — Georgia Elections & Precarious Neutrality, feat. Sopo Japaridze | Radio War NerdGet more from Radio War Nerd on Patreon 1244
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoMark 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-...patreon.comRadio War Nerd EP #483 — Georgia Elections & Precarious Neutrality, feat. Sopo Japaridze | Radio War NerdGet more from Radio War Nerd on Patreon 3347
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoThe Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Meet 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 044
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoThe Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024What 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 172
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoThe Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024New 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...nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.comGeorgia in Crisis | The Eurasian KnotGet more from The Eurasian Knot on Patreon 082
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoThe Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Here’s my interview with Artemy about the wonderful book euraknot.org/2018/10/13/d...euraknot.orgDecolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan - The Eurasian KnotGuest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press. 1113
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoEmile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Since 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 426584
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoPavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The 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... 23414
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoAaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 15/11/2024FT 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. 0215
Reposted by Bryan GigantinoLaurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social · 28/10/2024jacobin.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.jacobin.comIn Georgia, a National Election Is a Geopolitical StruggleGeorgian 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... 032
Bryan Gigantino @bryangigantino.bsky.social · 01/11/2023New Episode of Reimagining Soviet Georgia Episode 30: Anti-Colonial Bolshevik Historiography with Alexey Golubev www.patreon.com/posts/92093928patreon.comEpisode 30: Anti-Colonial Bolshevik Historiography with Alexey Golubev | Reimagining Soviet GeorgiaGet more from Reimagining Soviet Georgia on Patreon 050