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Rereading Akunin: A Conversation with Eliot Borenstein
Fandorin is just not a joiner. And specifically, if there’s one principle to which he’s committed above all others, it’s this notion of “personal human dignity” and the individual's prerogative...
A Look Back: The Long Year 2012
The year 2012 saw an unprecedented explosion of dialogue between the public and the regime in Putin’s Russia, a place that, up until then, seemed like one ruled by stagnation...
Panel Discusses Russia, Ukraine, and the Crimean Crisis
In light of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the Jordan Center welcomed several distinguished guests to discuss the events at Maidan, Russia’s involvement in the Crimean referendum for independence, and...
New Book, New Blog: Unstuck in Time
Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny, will begin serialization on Thursday
"Radiant Futures" conference brings Soviet science fiction and fantasy out of the periphery
On April 8, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a conference entitled “Radiant Futures: Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction.” The conference was convened by...
Researching Russian Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump
A funny thing happened to me while I was writing my book on conspiracy theory and contemporary Russia: my obscure little corner of Russian cultural studies suddenly threatened to become...
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...
Announcing Two New Features on “All the Russias”
Happy New Year, "All the Russias" readers! In my capacity as blog editor, I am pleased to announce two new features for 2019.
Spaces of Movement: Moving Away from the State or Moving the State
It was a lively and diverse symposium that took place on Friday, March 15, when the Jordan Center in cooperation with the Hagop Kevorkian Center brought together four prolific scholars...
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...
The Post-Soviet Uncanny (Unstuck in Time)
The uncanny, c'est nous!
How Will Our Scholarship On Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture Change In Response To Russia's War On Ukraine?
On May 25, 2022, six scholars—all primarily Russia specialists—responded to the question of how scholarship on nineteenth-century Russian culture would change in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The present...
A Note from the Editor
Welcome to "All the Russias," the multimedia blog of the Jordan Center for the Study of Russia at New York University. This blog represents the first step in the Jordan...
Rus! Where are you blogging? or, Calling all Russianists
The Russian state may not be expansionist, but the Russian blogosphere certainly is. To be convinced, all you need to do is go onto LiveJournal (an ironic name for a...
Six Questions for Jenny Kaminer about her new book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture
"“Bad,” of course is a highly relative, historically contingent, and variable term. I try to shed light on how changing political, social, and cultural contexts shape the varying models of...
Talking with Geoff Cebula, Author of "Adjunct"
I knew from the beginning that I didn't want her to be a Slavist.
Time of Troubles; or, The Trouble with Time (Unstuck in Time)
The outcome of a Time of Troubles is a foregone conclusion
Time Out of Joint (Unstuck in Time)
The manipulation of Russian historical precedent for present-day political gain is rather clear-cut
Circle Games (Unstuck in Time)
Voting Putin back into the presidency made the equation between past and future more literal
Quantum Leaps or Quantum Entanglement? (Unstuck in Time)
No one is at all bothered by the idea of paradoxes resulting from the deaths of butterflies, grandfathers, or Hitlers