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Hip-Hop Lifestyle Branding and Russian Ethno-Nationalism: The Case of Timati
On Vladimir Putin’s sixty-third birthday, Russian rapper and businessman Timur Yunusov — better known by his stage name, “Timati” — released a music video featuring the hook “My best friend...
“The Blood Will Grow Up Through the Earth:" Cathartic Reimagining in Oksana Vasyakina’s "Wind of Fury"
Vasyakina’s collective body (“our bodies weave together into one cruel black body”) is a nation of Amazons bound not by their subservience, but by their shared experiences and choice to...
Thesis Profile: The Eurovision Song Contest and Russia’s Place in the Fantasy of European Unity
Why should we care about Eurovision, a spectacle of glitter and camp that thumbs its nose at political protest? In order to argue for the significance of the contest, my...
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...
Price Tags for Wet Land: Resource-Making in Late Imperial Russia
On November 9, 2020, the Jordan Center hosted Katja Bruisch, Professor in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin, for a talk on the peatlands in late imperial Russia. By tracing...
Reading Nabokov in Greenwich Village (A Pedagogical Field Note*)
Forget Reading Lolita in Tehran--the strangest place I found myself reading Nabokov was in a Russian literature class.
The Bashkir Vanishes?
How Bashkirs endure the intense Russian nationalism characteristic of the last decade remains to be seen.
Passover 1934: An American Jewish Immigrant Story
As historians, most of the time we tell stories about strangers.
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part I
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
The Precarity of Shishkin’s Bear Cubs
Far from naively portraying an untroubled nature, Shishkin's "Morning in a Pine Forest" critiques the same industrialization that would later produce mass-marketed chocolates like “Clumsy Bear.” Although the bears have...
In Memory of Stephen Cohen
Earlier this year, our friend and colleague Stephen Cohen passed away. His contributions to the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies will be felt for years to come....
The Snowball Effect: An Immigrant Story
When I tell my story of immigration, which story do I tell?
Mali 2023: How Russia Made Its Way into Malian Life
Evgeny Prigozhin is dead, but Wagner’s mercenaries remain in Mali, and give no sign of leaving any time soon.