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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.
A Conversation with Julia Phillips, Author of "Disappearing Earth"
Phillips set out to create a work of fiction for American readers set in what, for them, is exotic landscape. She devoted her time in Kamchatka to meeting people, traveling,...
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part I
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part II
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part III
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
No Netflix, No Chill: Russia’s Culture Minister Would Rather Purge than Binge
In the West, we’ve long been familiar with the clear and present danger of Netflix.
A Spectre is Haunting Russia, or A Chilling Journey from Ulyanovsk to Silicon Valley, Part I
How does the Airpod-sporting, Tesla-obsessed Ulyanovsk teen compare to Eugene Onegin with a bust of Napoleon in his study?
A Spectre is Haunting Russia, or A Chilling Journey from Ulyanovsk to Silicon Valley, Part II
As near-daily news articles expose American tech leaders’ unethical business practices and shifts into neoconservativism, we are more in need than ever of creative means for limiting their power. Maybe...
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
Virtual Historical Mapping: Physical Spaces and Interactions Featured in “Harlem and Moscow”
I figured that I was going to school in Harlem, but learning Russian for my degree, so why not mesh the two topics together? Ultimately, the class was a rewarding...
“Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!”: celebrating political masculinity in Russia
A key element of Vladimir Putin’s legitimation strategy has been the cultivation of a macho image.
Russians React (to Trump's election)
“Just looking at their outward appearances, both are extremely unattractive.”
On Not Talking about Gender in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
As a graduate student in Russian literature, I wrote a dissertation and eventually a book about the body and the grotesque in nineteenth-century realism. As I look back, I can’t...
"Aspic" by Tatyana Tolstaya
Darkness comes early. There is a damp frost; you can see spiky halos around the streetlamps. You have to breathe through your mittens. Your forehead aches from the cold, and...
Putin: the man who arranges the blocks
The entirely brilliant Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris by Pig With The Face Of A Boy, encapsulates what we could call Russia’s long...
Does Ethnicity Matter? The Case of the Tsarnaev Brothers.
Could we really be so sure that the ethnic and religious background of the Tsarnaev brothers was completely irrelevant? Are we really doing ourselves any favors when, in our desire...
Teaching Race in Russia Part II: From Harlem to the “Soviet South”
My students, like Vladimir Nabokov before them, were surprised at how sexualized American racism was and how often black men were lynched for charges of even looking at white women.
Cold Snap (Part I): Russian Film after Leviathan
This essay provides context for roughly thirty-five current and upcoming Russian films, loosely clustered around four topics: directors; debuts; economic health; and dominant industry trends.
Notes from the Bathroom
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory may not be as good at riding horses topless, swimming in Siberian lakes, and flying with cranes, but his ability to bend logical reasoning almost...
RT: Influence, Persuasion, and Effects
Without evidence that a previously held attitude has changed as a result of RT’s message, we are not talking about persuasion.