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Excerpt from Joanna Stingray's "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground," Part III
Yuri, Viktor, and I were like The Three Musketeers.
Excerpt from Joanna Stingray's "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground," Part I
There was no one as pure, as transcendent, as irresistible as Boris Grebenshchikov.
Excerpt from Joanna Stingray's "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground," Part II
One of my favorite Pop Mechanics concerts at the Rock Club wasn’t one in which I sang, but one where I saw Sergey produce performance art at its fullest.
The 40th Anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club, with Joanna Stingray
On March 2, Jordan Center’s Michael Danilin (MA, New York University) hosted Joanna Stingray, a California author and musician who brought Soviet underground music to the Western audience, for a...
Sergei Eisenstein and Immersion in Nature
On October 23, 2020, the Jordan Center hosted Joan Neuberger, Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin, for a talk on Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein’s...
Passover 1934: An American Jewish Immigrant Story
As historians, most of the time we tell stories about strangers.
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...
Steve Jobs, iPhones, and Gay Propaganda
Is it possible to make official Russian homophobia even more laughable? There’s an app for that.
Running from the Reds: An Immigrant Story
This was my heritage: cultured, formerly wealthy Russians trying to make it in New York.
Reintroducing Russia
Show of hands by all the Russia watchers out there: in any of the scenarios in which Russia not only returned to the news, but became a cultural flashpoint, did...
Cold Snap (Part II): Russian Film after Leviathan
An auteurist orientation, therefore, is neither good nor bad, but it is certainly mismatched to an industry—especially during periods of robust growth—in which so-called “spectators’ cinema” [zritel'skoe kino] is in...