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Searching for Missing Compassion: Serbia and the War in Ukraine
Some two decades ago, Serbs had bombs dropped on their heads, just like the Ukrainians right now. Yet some have displayed an obvious lack of sympathy for the current experience...
Rewriting Russian History Through Cinematic Representations of Revolutionary Terrorism
Russian revolutionary terrorism is a perennial subject for state-sanctioned historical reconstruction, receiving a wide variety of treatments in cinema from the early Soviet period to the present day.
Cold Snap (Part II): Russian Film after Leviathan
An auteurist orientation, therefore, is neither good nor bad, but it is certainly mismatched to an industry—especially during periods of robust growth—in which so-called “spectators’ cinema” [zritel'skoe kino] is in...
Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically
Dostoevsky was well aware of the power of the gothic.
Kompromat: Everything You Wanted to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask)
The logic is simple: If you know that “the services” have a file on you, with information that could get you arrested or destroy your career, you are not very...
Luck Be a Lady Tonight (Akunin WQ 4)
The Winter Queen is less a first installment than it is a prequel
Spring Reading Series: Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Beyond Tula," Part III
Darya Fyodorovna came in and asked whether to serve them dinner, but the co-op operator was loping dreamily around the room. A porcelain Easter egg was hanging in the corner...
Digital, Political, Prescient: New Directions in Russian Press History
Since the collapse of the Soviet regime three decades ago, the Russian press has experienced a revival that transformed it into an important forum for political discussion and debate in...
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...
From the Paris Committee to “Polish Carbonarism”: Conspiracy Mythology and the Political Imagination in Russia in the Age of Revolution
The idea of conspiracy by secret societies became a pivotal official myth in the Russian Empire from the 1770s on, shaping governmental discourse, diplomatic relations, ideology, and security policy.
Daniel Mellis and Eugene Ostashevsky recreate Vasily Kamensky’s Tango with Cows
On October 30, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed visual artist Daniel Mellis and Russian-American poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky to speak on their...
How Central Asian State Media Outlets Support Their Governments
To secure legitimacy from the public and hence stay in power, autocrats use "external regime legitimation," a process in which a state promotes a positive image of itself by engaging...