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The Americans: "Take Your Daughter to Work" Day
Previously, on the Walking Dead…
The Americans: The Marriage Plot against America
Even if our heroes survive the season, their future looks bleak.
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...
Money Is Not Enough: The Role of Economic Incentives in Cooperative Nonproliferation Initiatives
The current main threats to Russian nuclear materials are determined insiders, coupled with a questionable commitment by Moscow to ensuring sustainability and improving security culture.
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.
Economic Sanctions on Russia and their Effects, Part II
In recent years, Russia’s economic performance has not been stellar. But how much of this disappointing economic performance can be attributed to sanctions?
Roaming Academics: An Immigrant Story
People ask me all the time where I will, or want to live when I finish my PhD, as if I am supposed to be able to answer that question.
The Panama Papers, Russia, and Us: A News Quiz
See how many you can get right, but the answers depend on the skills of your accountant.
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...
The Mediterranean as movement: Greeks and Russians in a contested space
On Friday, March 29, the Jordan Center was pleased to welcome a number of speakers to participate in a lively discussion on movements of Greeks and Russians of various sorts...
“Those crazy Americans, of course Pushkin’s not black!”
Last Friday, a group of scholars gathered in the wonderful space of NYU’s newly established Africa house to discuss connections of various forms between Russian and Africa. We were a...
Upcoming Columbia Event
In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov February 14th-16th 2013 Co-sponsored by the Bakhmeteff Archive, the Harriman Institute, the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia...
Will Russia’s economic turmoil affect its foreign policy?
How is the current financial crisis in Russia likely to affect Putin’s foreign policy choices in the short to mid-term future?
Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically
Dostoevsky was well aware of the power of the gothic.
Russia is Attacking Western Liberal Democracies
Russia is engaging in an orchestrated, strategic campaign whose purpose is to erode liberal democracy in Europe and the United States.
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...
What Were They Thinking? Russian intellectuals interpret the revolution, 1917-1922
Intellectual visions and destroyed dreams of the Revolution.
"On Narratives of Possibility and the Nature of Social Protest": A colloquium discussion with William Rosenberg
William Rosenberg discusses the multiplicity of narratives that shaped the Revolution.
Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War
The Soviet bloc’s inability to adapt to the global economic shocks of the 1970s played the decisive role in its collapse.
Tsar Nicholas Putin: Continuity or Coincidence?
On a cold December morning in the capital city a crowd gathered to protest Russia’s new ruler. Slogans and cheers sounded through the winter air as the people awaited the...