What happened to class, labor and inequality after the fall of the Soviet Union? My new book revisits Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’s transitions — from Soviet rule and the 1991 revolutions to neoliberal restructuring and the rise of the far right in times of war. Out in March with Manchester UP!

The new book now has a cover. The Myths of 1989: Origins, Realities, and Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Eastern Europe rethinks the free-market turn through thirteen country case studies uncovering its contested intellectual and political origins. Out early 2027 with Purdue University Press

My co-edited book with Kayhan Valadbaygi, Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism, is now out with Bristol University Press. The book reopens the mode of production debate and its historiographical stakes. 50% off in the January sale. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/mode-of-prod...

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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...

A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism

Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...

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👋 Giving Bluesky a try, let’s see how it goes. If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇 Happy to share links if you can’t access them.

I'm pleased to serve as Division Chair for Politics, Economics and Environment at the 30th Biennial AABS Conference, to be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Next year’s theme explores the genealogies of Baltic diasporas worldwide. More at: aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at...

Our Midterm Workshop 'Critical Political Economy at the Time of Monsters' has come to a close Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together! And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki! See you all again next year!

I’ll be giving a talk this July as part of the summer lecture series “The Baltic Sea as a Scene for Turning Points, Crises and Possibilities” at the University of Greifswald. Looking forward to taking part in the program and hearing from others working on the region.

New issue out now! Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.

Call for Participation: How Financial Interests Shape Democracy - Lessons from Central Eastern Europe’s Democratic Transition The workshop will take place in a hybrid format on 17 June 2025 at King’s College London, (Strand Campus, Bush House NE1.02). Deadline: 4 April 2025.