Natasha Bluth

npb239@nyu.edu
Articles by Natasha Bluth

Scholars, journalists discuss kompromat in today’s setting

We self-generate kompromat all day long.

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Radoslaw Markowski presents research on Polish politics after the October 2015 election

The last Polish election might have been the last election in a normal, democratic context.

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Interdisciplinary humanities workshop addresses aspects of neoliberalism

We are still in a neoliberal society.

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Boris Groys on the Russian quest for biopolitical utopias

What would happen if biopower were to eliminate death entirely?

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Russian scholars explore the use of the term ‘biopolitics’ in Jordan Center-UCL workshop series

What work is biopolitics doing as a heuristic in the Russian field?

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Aleksey Burago humanizes Chekhov and his impact on the Moscow Art Theater

The most important quality of Chekhov is his sense of humor.

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Benjamin Nathans revisits the drama behind the Soviet dissident movement

We have the basic plot of the story, but we don’t know the drama behind the plot.

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James Andrews on how the Moscow metro tells the story of socialism

There were no fortresses, which the Bolsheviks could not overcome.

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Ada Dialla links Vereshchagin’s art to the rise of humanitarianism in 19th-century Russia

Contributing to a “humanitarian narrative,” Vereshchagin’s work helped craft a bond between those who suffer and those who empathize with that suffering.

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Elidor Mëhilli explores Albanian filmmaking across the 1960s Sino-Soviet split

Albeit brief, Albania was for a short while held up by China as a model for socialism.

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Samuel Casper studies letters to Mikoyan to understand rehabilitation after the Great Terror

Once you’re stigmatized, castigated, reviled for social identity, how do you crawl your way back up?

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Brandon Schechter looks at the Great Patriotic War Through Everyday Objects

The Soviet state reduced the soldier’s biography to the parameters that the army was interested in.

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Ilya Budraitskis on what the 1917 revolution means to contemporary Russia

The way we can discuss revolutions is a political choice.

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Diana Greene introduces her project on 19th-century Russian women’s novels

Why are there no canonical 19th-century Russian women novelists?

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Sergei Guriev’s data analysis looks at the post-Soviet transition

The “transition happiness gap” is finally closed after 25 years.

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Lucan Way argues that revolutionary origins led to Soviet durability

Revolutionary regimes have been among the most durable forms of authoritarianism in the modern era.

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Catriona Kelly approaches “period zapoya” through cinema

On May 13, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Tisch School of the Arts welcomed Catriona Kelly for the last colloquium of the Spring 2016 semester, entitled “Period zapoya: Alcohol and Cinema during the Brezhnev Era.” Kelly, who is a Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, was introduced by Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. The former president of Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and a prolific writer, Kelly spoke briefly about her ongoing project – a book on the Soviet cine underground, a history of film in Leningrad during the post-Stalin era.

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Panel on Russian-Ukrainian conflict urges constructive dialogue and a global perspective

On May 4, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Russian Club held a panel discussion entitled “Beyond Political Games,” dedicated to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict from the historic and cultural point of view. Panelists included Yanni Kotsonis, Director of the Jordan Center, Lucan Way, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative. The panel was introduced by Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU. “In my experience, [this is a topic] that doesn’t really encourage meaningful dialogue for the most part, which is precisely why it’s important,” Djagalov said.

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Slavic literary scholar Michael Holquist negotiates the many “Bakhtins”

On May 2, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Slavic literary scholar Michael Holquist for a lecture entitled “On a Footnote in Bakhtin.” Holquist, Professor Emeritus of Comparative and Slavic Literature at Yale and a Senior Fellow at Columbia University, was introduced by Ilya Kliger, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU. “You are all to a greater or smaller extent familiar with Professor Holquist’s incredibly broad ranging work, scholarly, pedagogical and – on behalf of a profession which I hope he will permit me to designate with its frequently forgotten, but proper name – philology,” Kliger said.

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Sergey Sokolov traces the history of republicanism in Russia’s political thought

On April 29, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Sergey Sokolov for a lecture on “The Emergence of Republicanism in Russia (18th – early 19th c.): from Historical Writings and Literature to Politics.” Sokolov, an Associate Professor at Ural Federal University, was introduced by Ilya Kliger, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU.

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