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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.
In Search of Russia's Archival Mystique
If you’re a Russian historian, one of the first questions you usually get from an informed outsider is about the archives. Has the opening of the archives resulted in blockbuster...
"Slavs Only": Housing Discrimination in Russian Cities
While searching for flats and rooms for rent in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, one comes across an occasional yet notable prerequisite: "Slavs Only" (tol’ko slavianie).
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 Christmas Comes But Once a Year
In the United States, the Christmas season is winding down — or concluded depending on whom you speak to. The “most wonderful time of the year” typically ends after the...
Day 2 - Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
On February 27, 2015 the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the second part of its two-day workshop Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in...
Tracing Communism’s Reach, 100 Years After the Russian Revolution: An Interview with Joshua Tucker
Was Fukuyama right? Did communism die with the Soviet Union? Your answer may depend, in part, on your definition of what it means for an ideology to be “living.” But...
Twenty-Seven Questions for Stephen F. Cohen from Russia’s Leading Opposition Newspaper
People who know me personally or my writings know that I never judge or lecture Russia, but these three inter-related features are objective, not my subjective opinion: the excessive concentration...
“Dead Men Don’t Read Tolstoy. A Philip Marlowe Mystery”
“And the students? Didn’t they deserve a little Nabokov?”
Eastern Europe, Humanitarian Parole, and US Civil Rights
A look at the voting records for the civil rights and immigration bills passed during Eisenhower's presidency reveals a remarkable but unsurprising consistency: those who opposed racial integration also opposed...
Love, Peace, and Developed Socialism: A Talk by Juliane Fürst
The first wave of hippies was indeed a community largely made up of urban and privileged children of elites, who were better connected to the West and therefore had more...
Kevin Platt explores the meaning of Russian “Near Abroad” in the case of Latvia
Neither national nor diasporic, never displaced but out of place nevertheless, Russian culture occupies distinctive and complex positions in Latvia.
Constantin Katsakioris on The Lumumba University and the promise of a Soviet-Third World alliance
Constantin Katsakioris assesses the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, both as an education institution and an experiment in international cultural policy.
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part II
Socialism “focused on political responses to disability, but with a specific ideological twist.”
The Eye of Sauron over Moscow, or, Revenge of the Orcs
Nothing says “Evil Empire” like the Eye of Sauron.
The Hobbit Menace (Russia's Alien Nations)
Fine, we'll be your evil empire.
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....
When Piety Goes Wrong: Russia, Athos, and the imiaslavie Controversy
The imiaslavie, or “Name-Glorifiers,” controversy emerged from ambiguities in Church teachings and believers’ growing desire to pursue piety and personal salvation.
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.
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...