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Fighting Post-Soviet Anxiety with Childhood Portraits
The Russian convention of keeping one’s emotions in check is one of the reasons why, in “official” contexts like group or class photos, even children don’t smile. But the photographs...
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...
Putin’s Y2024 Problem
There is no doubt that Putin has a succession plan – but he has not yet revealed what it is. During his June 2018 call-in program, Putin said in response...
Neoliberalism and Other Dirty Words (Russia's Alien Nations)
I have never liked the term “neoliberal,” because it is not a term one speaks; rather, it is a term that speaks itself through the person who utters it.
Destruction or Hope? Past or Present? Postmodern Unity in Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso no. 1
For the majority of listeners, Andrei Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" (1979) is not the first cinematic association that comes to mind when they experience Alfred Schnittke’s "Concerto Grosso no.1" (1977). (The...