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For Victory in Freedom: Why Ukrainian Resilience to Russian Aggression Endures, Part I
The overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are determined not only to remove Russia from their land, but also to become a thriving democracy, honoring and avenging their significant collective losses and sacrifices.
For Victory in Freedom: Why Ukrainian Resilience to Russian Aggression Endures, Part II
The increasing toll of the war has not dampened Ukrainians’ support for freedom. The suffering has engendered a clearer understanding of the importance of continued fighting by building a sense of shared sacrifice and raising the value of freedom.
The Cold War’s End Between Contingency and Crowds
Taken together, Mary Sarotte's "The Collapse" and Serhii Plokhy's "The Last Empire" offer insights into the world’s geopolitical revolution of 1989-91, how developed states fail, and the limits of U.S....
In Putin’s Vision of Ukraine’s Past, A Warning About Russia’s Future
On 12 July 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published a historical essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” He frames the essay as a follow-up to a...
How Will Our Scholarship On Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture Change In Response To Russia's War On Ukraine?
On May 25, 2022, six scholars—all primarily Russia specialists—responded to the question of how scholarship on nineteenth-century Russian culture would change in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The present...
Writing around War: Parapolemics, Trauma, and Ethics
One striking strategy employed by Ukrainian writers across various genres is what literary historian Kate McLoughlin calls "parapolemics"—that is, focus on the spatial or temporal "outskirts" of war.
Panel on Russian-Ukrainian conflict urges constructive dialogue and a global perspective
On May 4, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Russian Club held a panel discussion entitled “Beyond Political Games,” dedicated to the...