Dr. Alexander Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires, and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, including Pidsumky imperii (2009); Puti imperii (2004); Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001); Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (1999); Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism (1993); and The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919–1929 (1980); the editor of 15 volumes, including The Encyclopedia of Nationalism (2000) and The Holodomor Reader (2012); and a contributor of dozens of articles to academic and policy journals, newspaper op-ed pages, and magazines. He also has a weekly blog, “Ukraine’s Orange Blues.”
Putin's forces bombed Kyiv for 11 straight hours, killing at least 20 civilians. In this searing analysis, Rutgers professor Alexander Motyl argues the barrage...
Pavel Gubarev, the former neo-Nazi paramilitary who declared himself People’s Governor of the Donbas in March 2014 and helped ignite Russia’s war against Ukraine,...
Key Points and Summary – Vladimir Putin’s regime is “brittle” and “headless,” not strong. Evidence for this includes the “overheated” reaction of jailing 18-year-old...
Key Points and Summary – Vladimir Putin’s information strategy relies on selling inevitability: Russia wins because Russia says it wins. That narrative strains under...