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Spies Like U.S.: "The Americans" and the Americans
On the face of things, "The Americans" should be pressing all sorts of buttons in the American psyche: crypto-communists! danger in the suburbs! our neighbors hate our freedoms! Moreover, since...
The Americans: The Marriage Plot against America
Even if our heroes survive the season, their future looks bleak.
American Committee for East-West Accord urges debate on U.S.-Russian relations
On November 23, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, in collaboration with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, hosted a panel discussion organized...
American Fascism: Lessons from Russia
Putin is not a fascist, in part because he does not need to be. Trump ran a consistently fascist campaign.
America's New Cold War With Russia
With the full support of a feckless policy elite and an uncritical media establishment, Washington is slipping, if not plunging, into a new cold war with Moscow.
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part II
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
Going to America: Foreign Amity, Domestic Unrest, and the United States in 1860s Russian Literature
Placing Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky's references to the U.S., then engaged in a civil war, within historical context offers a new lens for understanding the authors' divergent visions of Russia's future.
Alexis in America: The Grand Tour of a Russian Grand Duke, 1871-1872
The story of the Grand Duke’s trip is more than just a tale of forbidden love, political intrigue and colorful characters. It also touches upon important developments and events in...
The Story of Aleksei Balabanov’s Unfinished Film The American and Its Potential Afterlife
Two tragedies coupled with a failed attempt at completing the film “The American”, broke the “rhythms and networks of meanings” that flowed through the Aleksei Balabanov's earlier films.
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part III
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities
Among the crucial questions rarely discussed in the US political-media establishment: What is the role of the “neo-fascist” factor in Kiev’s “anti-terrorist” ideology and military operations?
Early-Soviet Travelogues and Socialist Views of Race and Class in America
Mayakovsky, Kisch, and Il'f and Petrov's travelogues present the vulnerability of America's lower classes as deeply interconnected with racial discrimination, necessarily leading to advocacy for socialism as a viable alternative...
The Americans: "Take Your Daughter to Work" Day
Previously, on the Walking Dead…
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part I
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
“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...
Socialist Trauma and American Politics: Why Many Russians Vote Republican
In general, Russian-speaking Trump supporters seem to accept without question the image the former President promoted: that of a wealthy man who gave up his privileged life in a golden...
Will American Liquefied Natural Gas Change the Russian Sanctions Game?
When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the United States reacted with its first round of sanctions against the country, with the Obama administration levying additional sanctions in December of 2016...
Firebird: From Slavic Mythology to American Identity
Originally choreographed by Michel Fokine for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1910, Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird" has been restaged many times and remains a popular ballet around the world and especially in...
Meanwhile, Back in "The Americans"…
This is Cold War paranoia packaged for viewers who are secure in the knowledge that the two superpowers will definitely not blow each other up, and that nothing Felicity does...
Russian Riddles Unsolved by Americans
Russians don’t encounter many who speak Russian imperfectly, as a second language.