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Excerpt from “Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny”
Chaadaev interprets Russia’s imperial expansion as a compensation, or even a "cover-up," for a lack of autonomous identity.
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...
Istanbul, Not Constantinople (Turkish Gambit 12)
The Turkish Gambit was first published in 1998, the year before the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
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...
It’s Raining New Men (Russia's Alien Nations)
The idea of the New Man is fundamentally utopian, based on the common utopian anthropology of human malleability.
Lady's Choice (Turkish Gambit 6)
Fandorin sounds less like Akunin and more like Yuliya Latynina
Can't Anyone Here Play This Game? (The Turkish Gambit, Conclusion)
Russian literature is "no worse than English or French.”
Re-Introducing Fandorin (Turkish Gambit 2)
he Turkish Gambit appears to be as much an ironic sequel to Anna Karenina as it is the literal sequel to The Winter Queen.
A Hard Day's Arabian Night (Turkish Gambit 5)
As mistakes go, it’s a brilliant one.
Our Stupid Heroes (The Turkish Gambit 10-11)
One expects a mystery to have a red herring or two, but The Turkish Gambit has enough to field an entire army.
Locked Rooms (Murder of the Leviathan Part I)
If the Leviathan were the Titanic, all of the characters would easily find their way to a lifeboat, caring not a whit whether or not Kate Winslet’s heart will go...
The Descent of Soviet Man (Russia's Alien Nations)
“Homo Sovieticus” is not just Latin; it’s a biological term that suggests both an evolutionary process and even the rise of separate species.