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Anna Karenina, Runway Diva, or, Vengeance is mine, saith The Gap
All fashionistas are alike; all fashion victims are victims in their own way.
Anna Arutunyan explains the Putin mystique
On Nov. 5 journalist and author Anna Arutunyan joined Russia expert and Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Mark Galeotti in conversation for an...
Candid about the Camera: Tolstoy Scholars on Adapting Anna Karenina
Tolstoy can be so unforgiving with his ladies.
Marital Happy Endings and Cultural Politics in a Contemporary Australian Adaptation of Anna Karenina
In our time, there is a definite expectation that people know what they want and ensure their own happiness.
Wright's Wrongs: Filming and Failing Anna Karenina
They couldn't have reproduced all of Tolstoy's intricate balance, but they could certainly have tried harder.
Love (Not Death): A Postmodern Tolstoy in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina
Despite flaws of both execution and interpretation, this most recent adaptation displays a genuinely intelligent understanding Tolstoy’s novel.
Breaking Taboos by Injecting the Personal: Anna Starobinets and the Tradition of Solzhenitsyn
In Russian culture, the writer often acts as a missionary, charting new paths in public discourse by broaching previously unmentionable topics. In 2017, Russian fiction writer Anna Starobinets (pictured above)...
Women Soldiers: Anna Krylova and Soviet Gender Categories
Elizabeth Banks is a Graduate Student in NYU's History Department. “God blessed Vasilisa with the greatest courage of all” Last Friday the Jordan Center joined with the NYU History Department’s...
Excerpt from Joanna Stingray's "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground," Part III
Yuri, Viktor, and I were like The Three Musketeers.
Excerpt from Joanna Stingray's "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground," Part I
There was no one as pure, as transcendent, as irresistible as Boris Grebenshchikov.
Excerpt from Joanna Stingray's "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground," Part II
One of my favorite Pop Mechanics concerts at the Rock Club wasn’t one in which I sang, but one where I saw Sergey produce performance art at its fullest.
The Sochi Citrus Project: a discussion with Johanna Conterio
Friday afternoon February 7th at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, Harvard PhD candidate Johanna Conterio presented her paper at an event made possible by the History of Science Working...
The 40th Anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club, with Joanna Stingray
On March 2, Jordan Center’s Michael Danilin (MA, New York University) hosted Joanna Stingray, a California author and musician who brought Soviet underground music to the Western audience, for a...
Why no mass protests in Russia? Sociologist Greg Yudin Demonstrated Against the Invasion and Ended up in the Hospital. He Says We’re Living in a New Era.
The whole world is already realizing that February 24 marked the end of an entire huge postwar period, and now we’re living in a new era.
Do anti-corruption campaigns work? David Szakonyi presents evidence from Russia.
Research from Russia suggests that financial disclosure requirements may dissuade corrupt incumbents from seeking re-election.
Tolstoy's Double, Part II
Tolstoy was sensitive and impressionable, but if a war, a guillotining, an autopsy or a famine was happening nearby, he wanted to see it for himself.
Tolstoy's Double, Part I
When Tolstoy wrote fiction he became alive to himself, conscious and capable of accessing otherwise obscure depths and fields of thought and feeling. Writing Anna Karenina continually unsettled him.
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
War and Pestilence: The Epidemiological Motif in L. N. Tolstoy's Historical Epic
In the motivic structure of "War and Peace," the “mythical” French "grippe" of Anna Petrovna Scherer occupies a unique position. It is a simultaneously socio-linguistic, satirical, historical, moral, and providential...
Reconceiving the Center: Correcting Our View of “Great” Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
By the end of the nineteenth century, fifteen percent of Russia's professional writers were women. If we are now rethinking the canon, a major step is to restore them to...