News and blog

This is now my main website. I have moved the information from the past project website popularmobilization.net to this site. 

For information about the supervised machine learning analysis from an earlier project on Russian media propaganda, please see my co-authored past papers on Ukraine and Russia and website of Kohei Watanabe, the data whiz behind the project.

The Russia protest event dataset is available from here.

Here is the link to the LSE Research for the World blog about how the social outcomes of the Bolshevik Revolution challenge present-day economistic prescriptions about levelling society.  

Read here a discussion of my Estates Origin book in Russian published in the Russian magazine Republic.


Access here the Quality of Government (QoG) podcast discussing my book with Victor Lapuente.

Here is my contribution to the LSE IQ podcast on the Future of Capitalism.


Image credit: Constantine Neklutin collection, Cammie G. Henry Research Center at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.