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The Cold War’s End Between Contingency and Crowds
Taken together, Mary Sarotte's "The Collapse" and Serhii Plokhy's "The Last Empire" offer insights into the world’s geopolitical revolution of 1989-91, how developed states fail, and the limits of U.S....
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Hacker: Russia and the U.S. Economic Espionage Act
An improved Economic Espionage Act would address not only the jurisdiction of hacks, but also the definition of hacking.
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...
Excerpt from "Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders," Part III
Orbita’s activities are a concerted effort to deploy Russian language culture on the Latvian scene without reasserting the language of the occupier or reconstructing the official cultural geography of the Soviet era.
Excerpt from "Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders," Part I
After 1991, Russians in the non-Russian republics, regardless of their stance toward Soviet power or its sudden vanishing, lost their privileged status of being “at home” everywhere in the USSR.
Excerpt from "Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders," Part II
The physical disposition of the books in the crowded space of the Russkaia biblioteka in Riga, Latvia corresponds to the relative relevance of its holdings for readers.
Excerpt from Brandon Schechter's “The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects"
This book tells the story of that dramatic change—from a desperate, retreating band to a victorious army—as experienced by soldiers. The years 1941–1945 replayed in real life a universal tale...
New Book, New Blog: Russia's Alien Nations
As some of you know, I spent a couple of years writing the first draft of "Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism" on my blog (plotsagainstrussia.org). Now that...
Talking with Scholarly Publishers (Historia Nova Prize Part II)
What advice would you give a young scholar when submitting a manuscript to your press?
Excerpt from Anne Lounsbery's "Life Is Elsewhere," Part I
This week, All the Russias is delighted to feature excerpts from Anne Lounsbery's "Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917," just out from Cornell Press. The below...
Excerpt from Anne Lounsbery's "Life is Elsewhere," Part II
This week, All the Russias is delighted to feature excerpts from Anne Lounsbery's "Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917," just out from Cornell Press. The below...
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
On September 17, Professor Tatiana Linkhoeva of NYU History joined the Jordan Center and the Center for the Humanities for the virtual launch of her book, Revolution Goes East (Cornell...
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part I
It is precisely at the intersection of disability advocacy and its politicization in the face of the Cold War that we should trace the development of the international blind movement in the 1970s-1980s.
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part II
Socialism “focused on political responses to disability, but with a specific ideological twist.”
Excerpt from “Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny”
Chaadaev interprets Russia’s imperial expansion as a compensation, or even a "cover-up," for a lack of autonomous identity.
Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
Since 2010, Orbán’s government has induced a radical transformation of grand corruption patterns in Hungary: a shift from oligarchic or economic state capture toward political state capture, in which complex corrupt networks are professionally designed and managed by the very top of the political elite.
Cyborgs, Weak Cosmists, and a Russian Planet
Is Cosmism becoming a new Eurasianism?
Does Stephen Cohen Have the Right to Be Outspoken? Does the ASEEES Board Have the Right to Remain Silent?
I am a member of ASEEES, a historian of the Russian Empire and the USSR, and I direct a center that is an institutional member of ASEEES. Surely I can...
Russian Women and the Myth of the “Right Man”
As in the West, the Russian nuclear family includes two adults raising the children; the difference is that, in the Russian case, those adults are often a mother and a...
Levada Center Attacked for Doing Research with American Scholars
Social science will suffer as a result.