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The Passing of Stephen F. Cohen
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our friend and colleague, Stephen F. Cohen.
Rereading Akunin: A Conversation with Eliot Borenstein
Fandorin is just not a joiner. And specifically, if there’s one principle to which he’s committed above all others, it’s this notion of “personal human dignity” and the individual's prerogative...
Call for Submissions: AtR's Graduate Student Essay Competition
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and "All the Russias" are pleased to announce the inaugural Graduate Student Essay Competition! Get published in "All the Russias" and...
Interview with Sean Guillory, Part II
"I think we who either produce or engage with academic work need to seriously reconsider what we do, why we do it, and whom we do it for. I remember...
Interview with Sean Guillory, Part I
"The sorry state of public discourse around Russia has led me to try to provide the most eclectic range of topics on my podcast. The idea is to show my...
“There is Nothing Outside the Beast”: A Conversation with Kevin Rothrock
Тhe imagined reader should be someone who doesn’t care about what you're trying to tell them. So the flavor of what you’re writing should have a little something that holds...
Announcing Two New Features on “All the Russias”
Happy New Year, "All the Russias" readers! In my capacity as blog editor, I am pleased to announce two new features for 2019.
Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko’s “Sentimental Tales,” Part V
Before long Apollo Semyonovich Perepenchuk sank deep into poverty.
Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko's "Sentimental Tales," Part IV
The author pledges to his dear readers that when he recalls certain sentimental scenes—say, the heroine crying over a portrait, or the same heroine mending Apollo Perepenchuk’s torn tunic, or,...
Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko's "Sentimental Tales," Part III
“Why does man exist? Is there a purpose to man’s life—and if there isn’t, then is life itself not, generally speaking, in part senseless?” Of course, some assistant or full...
Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko's "Sentimental Tales," Part II
"In view of past misunderstandings, the writer notifies his critic that the person who narrates these tales, is, so to speak, an imaginary person."
Summer Reading Series: Mikhail Zoshchenko's "Sentimental Tales," Part I
"This book—this collection of sentimental tales—was written at the very height of NEP and revolution. And so the reader is, of course, entitled to demand certain things of its author:...
"Aspic" by Tatyana Tolstaya
Darkness comes early. There is a damp frost; you can see spiky halos around the streetlamps. You have to breathe through your mittens. Your forehead aches from the cold, and...
Call for Submissions
We welcome your short pitches and/or completed drafts of 500-1200 words on any topic relating to Russian, East European, and Eurasian politics and culture. Please see our submission guidelines for...
An excerpt from Alexandra Petrova's "Appendix" (2016)
I felt even worse about my appendix. Over and over, they’d told me: “Don’t swallow fruit pits, and make sure to shell sunflower seeds before sticking them in your mouth,...
Linor Goralik: Excerpts from "Biblical Zoo"
The rabbit conveys to you that you can’t even imagine how and what he pees and poops—but soon you will.
Linor Goralik: "She Said, He Said"
Like, here, I had this parrot, and you know, they live a long time. Well, he died, like, he was sitting on my shoulder and all of a sudden I...
On Cumulative Ideology
This past June — a moment since blotted out by geopolitical horrors large and small — Vladimir Putin sat down with NBC’s Megyn Kelly for an interview subsequently lambasted as...
Hacking, Heckling, and Conspiracy: Interview with Julia Ioffe
What you need is something we don’t have yet in the case of the election, and might never have, which is somebody from the inside saying, “Here’s how we did...
Wheel of Misfortune: Game Shows and Show Trials after Crimea
What does a Russian game show have to do with a Ukrainian prisoner?