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Jeremy Morris

@jeremymorris.bsky.social

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Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.

Jeremy Nigel Morris is a British historian, Church of England priest and academic. He specialises in church history. From 2014 to 2021, he was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Previously, he was Dean of Trinity Hall from 2001 to 2010, and Dean of the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge from 2010 to 2014. .. more

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Mar 23

Reminder that this is now out in hardback and softback as well as ebook formats. Link in the next post.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6h

postsocialism.org/2025/10/16/i...

Is ‘Putinism’ a coherent ideology? Do Russians identify with it?

Laruelle admits, the vast majority of Russians sense a lack of a state ideology. Her jobs then is to try to reconstruct something resembling a coherent set of beliefs or a world view and show how i…

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6h

New post - a mammoth, though partial, review of Marlene Laruelle's new book on Putinism as ideology. I find a lot to like in her 400 page meticulous treatment, but also a bit of a gap between her final thesis and her evidence. Link in the next post.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

Re-uping

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=icO5...

Is It Okay to Like Russia? | Russia Unfiltered #1

YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

So we decided to do a YouTube. Three guys talking about Russia.
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 12d

great example of alternative data science

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 13d

In our new issue, @jeremymorris.bsky.social explains how the Kremlin manufactures and enforces consent for a war that benefits few Russians.

Maintaining the IllusionRussian Society After Three Years of War

Well into the fourth year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian society remains largely compliant, even though few have benefited from the conflict. The working poor who make u...

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d

The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...

The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia

Irritation and isolation is the flipside of the ‘comfort’ culture. And perhaps what partly feeds demand for it. Most of all, though, war supporters feel lonely.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

By this decommunization logic, anyone who did any cultural production which saw the light of day between 1917-1991 is a collaborator with a colonial authority? Jeez, good luck with your postcolonial nation building!

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

Like, no shit, Sherlock! Nowhere can the article admit that Shepitko was not just a Soviet filmmaker, but one of global stature in the 20thC. What a shame on (and for) Ukraine.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

Ukrainian nationalists - aren't you going to run out of 'bad' Soviet Ukrainians soon? photo-lviv.in.ua/u-lvovi-demo...

"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"

У Львові демонтували меморіальну дошку радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько • Фотографії старого Львова

У Львові, на вулиці Ковжуна, 8, демонтували меморіальну таблицю, присвячену радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько. Ця подія стала результатом піврічної

photo-lviv.in.ua

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 15d

Volodya Z, you say?

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 16d

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2025.2483712

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 16d

Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 16d

From www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia

Russia is a global forerunner in cryptocurrency adoption. This paper explores how cryptocurrency, as a techno-economic actant, informs the way Russians strategize their lives and imagine alternativ...

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 16d

Current reading: Crypto in Russia:
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 17d

Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…

Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 18d

less than in inch between that wank and anti-miscengenation laws.

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 18d

'How cultivated and sensitive -or how superficial - must his Anglo-Saxon readers be, to have accepted this fascinating artist.' - Stefan Napukski

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 18d

Conrad's conviction that British tolerance, even if it is sometime naive, is better than foreign extremism and foreign cynicism. Wonderfully revealed through the mouth of an exasperated Russian aristocrat in The Secret Agent. (lack of open repression makes Britain the mockery of Europe)

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 18d

Re-Reading Conrad and always struck by his eternally contemporary relevance: the British are 'a people which has made a bargain with fate and wouldn't like to be rude to it.'

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 20d

We did an author meet and book exchange yesterday in salubrious surroundings. Bonus was the cosplay Peaky Blinders bloke. From some angles he looked like Lenin.

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia

Recent revelations of Russia’s espionage activities involving individuals associated with higher education highlight a troubling reality: the restrained curiosity within Western academia about Russ...

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«Sam•Forsythe» @polymetis.bsky.social · 22d

terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d

"Kuzminov had an element of authoritarianism, but he invited people to HSE who were able to object to him. And, even if later, for various reasons, such people were relegated to less noticeable positions..." Yakovlev provides cover for the myth of HSE as 'like any Western one'.

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d

Obviously I don't agree with some of it, but it's at least a chink of light on how the narrative of Russian universities as bastions of liberal freedom was always a self-exculpating narrative. Like this pabulum t-invariant.org/2023/10/andr...

Андрей Яковлев: «По линии ФСБ Вышку передали из ведения службы экономической безопасности в ведение службы по защите конституционного строя и борьбы с терроризмом» - Т-инвариант / T-invariant

Почему среди всех новых знаменитых вузов, возникших в постсоветской России, Высшая школа экономики оказалась в худшем положении? В какой момент в вузе началась эпоха солидарности с государственной иде...

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d

Well overdue article: "The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia" by Sanshiro Hosaka

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d

The dangers of pundits and self-congratulatory analysis.(Yes, this is an Ian Bremmer subtweet).
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 26d

Re-upping because the algo punishes links. Saturday coffee/other beverage reading about how postmodern authoritarianism is not about hard coercion or regime ideology but far more insidious.

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 27d

Comfort is maintained by a neocolonial service class. But it’s also about the ‘doxa’: the naturalized and inevitable order: everyone has their labour price, and if yours is low, it’s the Red and White for you.
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...

‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II

Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 27d

‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II

Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one

postsocialism.org