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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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »Ben Peters-The Soviet Internet: Beyond the Book
Please join us on Friday, April 12th for “The Soviet Internet: Beyond the Book”, a talk with Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa . This event is part of the Occasional Series, co-sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and Steinhardt| Media, Culture, and Communication. Friday, April 12th Steinhardt| Media, Culture and Communication 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet officials and scientists made numerous attempts to network their nation--to construct a nationwide…
Find out more »Betty Banks: Socialist Internationalism between the Soviet Union and Mozambique
Please join us on Friday, April 12th for, “Socialist Internationalism between the Soviet Union and Mozambique”, a workshop by Betty Banks, New York University. This event is part of the Colloquium Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In the second half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of newly independent African states adopted socialist politics after the end of empire. In response dozens of Soviet institutions provided aid, political support and technical expertise to…
Find out more »A Lecture and Q&A with Vladimir Kozlov: Russian Cultural Underground, from late 1980s to now
Please join us on Thursday, April 11th for a lecture and Q&A with Vladimir Kozlov entitled, "Russian Cultural Underground, from late 1980s to now". This event is part of the Occasional series and is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Vladimir Kozlov is a Russian writer and filmmaker, surveys the intriguing landscape on the late-Soviet and post-Soviet underground culture, from Siberian punk rock to Pussy Riot. Vladimir Kozlov was born in 1972 in Mogilev, in…
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