How to Survive Authoritarianism: Dan Storyev on a Russian Phrasebook for America

Podcast: Keen On America · Andrew Keen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-03

“The United States is speed running into a more authoritarian model that the Russians have been living in for quite some time now.” — Dan Storyev How to survive authoritarianism in the United States? Maybe we can learn from the Russians. At least according to the Russian-American Dan Storyev, co-author (with Maria Kuznetsova) of How to Survive Authoritarianism, a phrasebook which provides a hundred Russian words for the nasty political things Americans can see but can’t yet name. Storyev’s premise is that America hasn’t got the vocabulary to describe its current pr...