Konstantin Mitroshenkov - about the book by Kirill Ospovat “Pugachevshchina” Pugachev's uprising has long been described in historiography as a chaotic popular movement, devoid of articulated goals and indiscriminate in means. Kirill Ospovat's new book attempts to revise this approach and rewrite the history of the Pugachev era from the point of view of its direct participants, rather than the enlightened elites who suppressed the rebellion.

Excerpt from Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer's book Hyposubjects Timothy Morton, who taught us about hyperobjects, decided not to stop there and, in company with the American anthropologist Dominic Boyer, wrote the book “Hyposubjects. In becoming human." With the permission of the publishing house "Gile Press" we publish a small excerpt from this work. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarity, violence and lies.

About Polina Barskova’s book “Luminophors: Notes on Siege Culture” The narrative about the siege of Leningrad, heroically endured by the residents of the city on the Neva, was an important part of Soviet post-war history, and even in our time it comes up again. Meanwhile, Polina Barskova (declared a foreign agent by the Russian authorities) believes that the daily life of people who survived the horror of the blockade still remains little studied, if not rejected and forgotten.