Matthew Lenoe

Matthew Lenoe is an associate professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of Rochester and author of The Kirov Murder and Soviet History (Yale UP, 2010) and Closer to the Masses: Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution and Soviet Newspapers (Harvard University Press, 2004), along with numerous academic articles and essays in The Washington Post and the Boston Globe.

Constitution

Could America’s Covid and Race Crises Weaken the Union the way Chernobyl Broke up the USSR?

Matthew Lenoe

Rochester, NY (Special to Informed Comment) – An unforeseen health disaster with rapidly propagating domestic and international consequences strikes a superpower already wallowing in heavy seas. Overwhelmed by the surge, the ship of state floods, and begins to break up. The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in April 1986, and the subsequent disintegration of the USSR […]