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V.V. Andreev’s Velikorusskii Orchestra: National Identity and Music in Late Imperial Russia
Anya Shatilova writes about Vasily Andreev, “a self-taught balalaika player” who in 1888 organized the Society of Balalaika Devotees in order to “manifest the ‘Russian national idea’ in musical form.
Statement by feminist poet, artist, and activist Daria Serenko
We thought there would be no war, but the war came. And, for the first time in years, the nuclear threat is no empty threat.
Post-Soviet, Post-Industrial, Post-Future: Rethinking Space After the End of Communism
Images of decay across the territory of the former USSR – starkly physical symbols of the broken promises of communism – are one result of this economic collapse. While in...
Russian Symbolists and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Part I
“Absurd!” “Perverse!” “Puerile!” “Frantic trash!” Thus fumed London critics who attended the 1850 exhibition of the little-known Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. For the three young artists who dreamt of revolutionizing the Royal...
Russian Symbolists and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Part II
In painting, Mikhail Vrubel’s engagement with the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exemplifies a lifelong negotiation of Russia’s position on the map of European modernisms.
Reenactments of 1917 in Film: Conference Recap
In collaboration with NYU’s Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Cinema Studies, the Jordan Center welcomed speakers and guests November 17-18 for “Reenactments of 1917 in Film.” As...
Exhibition Review: Five Elements of War
Daria Marchenko and David Green's "Five Elements of War," currently on view at the Ukrainian Institute of America, consists of five politically-charged pieces featuring bold coloring and bullet casings from...
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...
Russian Colonialism, Eastern Europe, and Global Anti-colonial Struggles
Analogies between post-colonialism and post-socialism should not be drawn too hastily; doing so requires, at the very least, examining the region’s active participation in policing Europe's physical and symbolic borders.
Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Liberalism
Scholars discuss the roots of neoliberalism and how we can understand the spheres of economic and political liberalism.
New and Enduring Forms of Feminist Activism in Contemporary Russia
From the NGO-ized civil society environment that existed in the 1990s and early 2000s, a new pattern of informal activism has developed, often assisted by the use of social media...
Book Review: Yuri Tynianov's "Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory, and Film"
Despite his sizable contributions to Russian Formalism, Yuri Tynianov remains a largely understudied figure in the West. Whether a victim of canonization or cross-cultural barriers, his work continues to evade...
Save Ukrainian Cultural Heritage!
What we are doing in the virtual cloud depends on what happens there, on a battleground. There is a list of cities and towns currently under attack, and it is...
Unexpected Telegram: The Assassination of a Pro-Kremlin Blogger
Tatarsky's assassination signals that the internet and social networks are now far more than either a haven for anti-Putin oppositional voices or a dark space for Kremlin trolls.
Reflecting on the 1917 Revolution: Yanni Kotsonis gives a lecture on doubts about the "Great Event"
Yanni Kotsonis presents the question, Should we as historians be investing such meaning in the 1917 Revolution?
Julia Sweet discusses the role of collective memory in Putin's propaganda machine
Julia Sweet considers the Russian state's most effective propaganda strategies in maintaining anti-Ukrainian sentiment.
Technology, Ideology and Culture: Legacies of Soviet-African Relations
Historians and anthropologists discuss the impacts and legacies of Soviet-African relations of the 20th century.
An Interdisciplinary Study of the Russian Revolution
Scholars host a roundtable to discuss the multi-layered legacy of 1917.
Russia's Relations with the West one Year after the US Presidential Elections
One year after the US presidential elections, what is the current state of US-Russian/Eurasian relations and what can we expect for the future?
What Were They Thinking? Russian intellectuals interpret the revolution, 1917-1922
Intellectual visions and destroyed dreams of the Revolution.