Professor Kaganovsky’s study focuses on the contributions of the two early Soviet female directors: Esfir Shub and Elizaveta Svilova, “in order to make visible what has largely remained invisible – film editing as women’s work”
Continue reading...A Punk Prayer: a screening and discussion of Evgeny Mitta’s “Act and Punishment”
Daria ProkhorovaOrgasmic Communism?
Venelin GanevMatt Taibbi’s Not-So-Secret Russian Past
Eliot BorensteinLike the clueless expats they loathed, the editors treated Moscow and its residents as their playground.
Continue reading...Russian Women and the Myth of the “Right Man”
Anna ShadrinaAs in the West, the Russian nuclear family includes two adults raising the children; the difference is that, in the Russian case, those adults are often a mother and a grandmother.
Continue reading...Six Questions for Jenny Kaminer about her new book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture
Eliot Borenstein““Bad,” of course is a highly relative, historically contingent, and variable term. I try to shed light on how changing political, social, and cultural contexts shape the varying models of maternity that circulate in a given time period. “
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