In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralized control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition. Russians have a word for the periods of turmoil: smuta. Wagner […]
Author Archives: Danica Jenkins
Danica Jenkins is a postdoctoral teaching and research fellow at the University of Sydney. She holds a PhD in European studies, and her research areas are the intellectual and cultural history of Russia and eastern and southeastern Europe.