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Culinary Detente: How Recipes Helped Ease Tensions and Calm the Cold War
Although it may not have directly led to detente, food was one catalyst among many for the change of minds that would ultimately lead to the disintegration of the Soviet...
Culinary Detente: Pepsi in the USSR
As the New York Times reported in 1976, Russia-based Pepsi plants were on track to produce 216 million bottles of Pepsi per year as of 1978. While not everyone in...
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, Ukraine, and the Fantasies of War
Why should we surprised when the facts of the Ukrainian bloodshed prove so malleable in the media?
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...