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Life with the Russian Émigré Community of Australia
When I married a Russian Australian and moved to Sydney in 2019, my family friends shook their heads, as if to say, “Here we go, another one of our girls...
Marital Happy Endings and Cultural Politics in a Contemporary Australian Adaptation of Anna Karenina
In our time, there is a definite expectation that people know what they want and ensure their own happiness.
Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism
Professor Subotic analyzed the commonplace conflation of communism with fascism across Serbia, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, and other Eastern European states. “Many of the museums and memorials have begun depicting their...
In Defense of Russia’s Holocaust on Ice
Has “Springtime for Hitler” finally met its match?
Verbal Judo, or How Not to Commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day
The President's speech was targeted less at Holocaust deniers than at political opponents, who dare to dispute post-Soviet Russia's official scenario of power, which privileges its people's tragic, heroic, and,...
The Many Names for Mother: Bearing Lyric Witness to the Holocaust in the East
In anticipation of the birth of her son in 2015, Dasbach became convinced that her poetic focus would shift into the future. But the opposite happened, as “motherhood entrenched [her]...
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...
Russia's War Against Ukraine and the Paradigm of Empire in Historiography
After the fall of communism in Europe, a new generation of historians sought to overcome the East-West wall inside their own discipline. A history of East-West antagonisms was to be...
Eastern Europe, Humanitarian Parole, and US Civil Rights
A look at the voting records for the civil rights and immigration bills passed during Eisenhower's presidency reveals a remarkable but unsurprising consistency: those who opposed racial integration also opposed...
Russia is Attacking Western Liberal Democracies
Russia is engaging in an orchestrated, strategic campaign whose purpose is to erode liberal democracy in Europe and the United States.
Changes in the Kremlin’s Political Discourse from 2000 to 2019
Perspectives on Russia’s role in global affairs have differed. It has been portrayed as, respectively, an advocate of the status quo upholding the rule of law; a neo-revisionist actor aiming...
Black woman or Russian fashion accessory? Only her hairdresser knows for sure...
If you’re an art impresario, fashion designer, and related to two (count ‘em, two) Russian oligarchs by blood and by common-law marriage, it can’t be easy finding a new thrill....
Cultures of War: Homefronts
Saturday’s panel “Homefronts”, part of this past weekend’s international symposium Cultures of War: From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution, saw a lively discussion of the domestic experience of...
Putin's Game of Thrones
The poisoning of Aleksei Navalny is a grim reminder that Russian politics seems to operate by its own set of rules.
Announcing Upcoming Events Sponsored by 19v, a Working Group on Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture
Please join us on Zoom Wednesday, June 24, 12-2 pm EST, for an interdisciplinary roundtable on "What Is The 19th Century?" with panelists Alex Martin (University of Notre Dame), Rosalind...
Not Crimea: Stalingrad in 3-D
Stalingrad is a movie that meets a certain need—the need to be able to cheer wholeheartedly when an evil enemy gets blown up.
December 1989: An Immigrant Story
One could find bards at every immigrant gathering singing The Tales of What Could Go Wrong At the Interview.
Solidarity and Shelter: An Immigrant Story
She hid her university diploma, which she would need to start a new life, in a sealed stationary package.
Ilya Matveev reflects on the Russian economic crisis
On April 4, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Ilya Matveev from the European University in St. Petersburg for a lecture titled “Austerity and...
Ukraine’s ‘far east’: on the effects and genealogy of Ukrainian Galician reductionism
In the context of the current war, faith in the idea of national ‘purity’ often comes couched in rationalist terms, positing no known cure for the Soviet hangover in the...