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Xenia Cherkaev – Gleaning for the Common Good: Personal Property, Mutual Aid and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment
Please join us on Monday, April 15th for a workshop by Xenia Cherkaev of MIT. This event is part of the Colloquium series and is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. From Xenia: "Gleaning for the Common Good is a historical ethnography of the idiosyncratic Soviet property regime – of “socialist” and “personal” property – that was legislated to dissolve the conflict between public policy and private interest, and to thereby, in the communist future,…
Find out more »Dace Dzenovska – School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia
Please join us on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 for a talk by Dace Dzenovska of the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society; Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Oxford. This event is part of the Occasional Series and is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In the 1990s, the global victory of liberalism as the blueprint for organizing economic and political life seemed certain. Today it no longer does. Governing elites in…
Find out more »Juliet Johnson – Monumental Politics: The Power of Public Memory in Putin’s Russia
Occasional Series | Thursday, April 18th | 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Find out more »Wendy Z. Goldman-Starvation and Survival on the Soviet Home Front during World War II
Please join us on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 for a talk by Wendy Z. Goldman of Carnegie-Mellon University, drawn from her forthcoming and exhaustively researched book, Fortress Dark and Stern. Life, Labor, and Loyalty on the Soviet Home Front during World War II (Oxford University Press). This event is part of the Elihu Rose Lectures in Modern Military History and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Wendy Z. Goldman is the Paul Mellon Distinguished…
Find out more »Book Talk with Stephen F. Cohen: War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
Please join us on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, for a book talk with Stephen F. Cohen and commentary from Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University . This event is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of our New York City-Russian Studies & Policy Event series and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and Columbia University's Harriman Institute; Russia, Eurasian,…
Find out more »Daria Ezerova – Post-Soviet, Post-Industrial, Post-Future: Rethinking Space After the End of Communism
On Wednesday April 24th, please join us for "Post-Soviet, Post-Industrial, Post-Future: Rethinking Space After the End of Communism", a talk by Daria Ezerova of Davidson College. This event is part of the Occasional Series and is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In 1989, the writer Viktor Erofeev pronounced Soviet literature dead. Two years later it was the Soviet Union itself that had met its demise. But the art and ideology of the former regime,…
Find out more »Vanessa Voisin-“Blind Justice”? Domestic, International and Legal Dynamics of Soviet War Purges, 1942-1955
Please join us on Friday, April 26, 2019 for a talk by Vanessa Voisin associate researcher at the CERCEC (EHESS/CNRS). This event is part of the Elihu Rose Lectures in Modern Military History and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Soviet justice is overwhelmingly considered by the scholarship as sham justice, serving any goals except the rule of law.This presentation will focus on a specific type of political cases, namely the trials of presumed…
Find out more »Eugene Finkel – Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Occasional Series | Wednesday, May 1st | 12:30-1:50 PM
Find out more »Sheila Puffer-Hammer and Silicon: The Soviet Diaspora in the US Innovation Economy
Please join us on Monday, May 6, 2019 for a book talk by Sheila Puffer of Northeastern University. This talk is part of the Occasional Series and is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. A book signing will follow this event. Please note: the NYU Bookstore off-site event sales are credit/debit card or exact change cash only!! This deeply personal book tells the untold story of the significant contributions of technical professionals from the former…
Find out more »Bathsheba Demuth-The Value of Blubber: Soviet Whaling and the Cold War
Please join us on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 for a talk by Bathsheba Demuth of Brown University. This event is part of the Elihu Rose Lectures in Modern Military History and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This talk traces the history of whaling in the North Pacific from the early 1930s until the 1980s, where the Soviet Union's desire to exploit whales clashed with the growing American view of cetaceans as deserving preservation.…
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