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All the Russias is taking a holiday
In solidarity with out brothers and sisters in the Russian Federation, All the Russias will be taking a long holiday break.
All the Russias in today's Huffington Post!
The Russian government has gotten back into the story business. This is bad news for people who like to tell stories of their own, but good news for people who...
All the Russias: A Transnational Approach
A new approach underpins "Transnational Russian Studies," edited by Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings, just published by Liverpool University Press. Our book opens up the map of Russian...
All or Nothing: The Literary Significance of Proper Names
The philosopher Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) had a habit of naming each object he owned. According to émigré theologian Vladimir Lossky (1903-1958), Soloviev’s satchel was named "Grigory" and his pencil "Andrey."
All the King's Horses: Ukraine, Russia, and Gogol's Troika
What the rest of the world perceived as a quaint cultural mascot had additional layers of meaning for the Russian public that were overlooked in western media coverage of the...
Change is coming to All The Russias
I am stepping away from most of my editorial duties for the blog
All Blushes of Autumn: Russia’s Evolving “Red Lines” in the War on Ukraine, Part I
By 2023, the West had discovered that neither increasing the supply of weapons to Ukraine nor Moscow’s loss of annexed territories had prompted any serious response from Russia—as if its "red lines" were shifting or were not actually there at all.
All Blushes of Autumn: Russia’s Evolving “Red Lines” in the War on Ukraine, Part II
Has the West has already crossed Russia’s red lines? This possibility is unlikely: If Russia’s red lines had been crossed, then Russia would have escalated the conflict.
All the "Pravda" about International Women’s Day
Examining March-8th dispatches in Pravda between 1920 and 1991 reveals a gradual shift in the official feminine ideal: at first, women were glorified as fellow workers and builders of socialism;...
All Dogs Go to Heaven (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 5)
Perhaps we’re all in some mirror universe episode of Scooby Doo, and Pelagia is Velma?
Immigrant Stories: A New Rubric at All the Russias
It seems like a good time to take pride in the diverse immigrant roots of our field by gathering immigrant stories.
Rus! Where are you blogging? or, Calling all Russianists
The Russian state may not be expansionist, but the Russian blogosphere certainly is. To be convinced, all you need to do is go onto LiveJournal (an ironic name for a...
Ballet in the Cold War: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 Tour of the Soviet Union
On February 5th, the Jordan Center welcomed Professor Anne Searcy for a talk on the exchange of Soviet and American ballet troupes for cultural diplomacy during the Cold War. In...
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.
Fall Reading Series: Sergei Gandlevsky's "Illegible," Part I
In contemporary Russian literary life, Gandlevsky’s stature as a poet is indisputably great; he is less well known as a prose writer, although his novels and essays have been critically...
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 second annual Graduate Student Essay Competition! Enter for a chance to get...
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...
Fall Reading Series: Sergei Gandlevsky's "Illegible," Part III
Krivorotov tried to cause a jealous scene, but Anya would have none of it. “I have one jailer, my aunt, and that’s enough,” the young woman said to him. “If...
Fall Reading Series: Sergei Gandlevsky's "Illegible," Part II
Sergey Gandlevsky has written that his very first childhood poem, written on the occasion of the transfer to another school of the “beautiful, stern” little girl he had a crush...
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...