"The Russia That We Have Lost"

We talk to Pavel Khazanov about the delusional ideations of the generation that ended the Soviet Union…children of serfs who began to identify themselves with Russia’s old nobility.Pavel is a professor at Rutgers. He recently wrote a book that inspired our talk: The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse. A lot of our eps are for paying subscribers. Join the lying flat club with us! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe