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James Andrews on how the Moscow metro tells the story of socialism
There were no fortresses, which the Bolsheviks could not overcome.
A Trial Against Racial Hatred: White Chauvinism and International Communism
On September 21st, Sean Guillory, host of the SRB Podcast and Digital Scholarship Curator in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, joined...
The More I See of Men, the More I Love My Dog (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 4)
R.I.P. Zakusai. You’ll be missed. Well, only by Marya Afanasyevna, but still.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Pelagia? (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 1)
Yes, who is Pelagia, really? A flibbertijibbet? A will o’the wisp? A clown?
The Devil Went Down to Zavolzhsk (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 2)
Bubentsov is going to make this provincial town matter, whether the town wants it or not.
Plato’s Republic of Zavolshsk (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 6)
We’ve wandered onto territory somewhere between the Beiils Affair and the Pussy Riot trial
Heads, Lost and Found (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 8)
For a “tasteful” novel about a nun, Pelagia and the White Bulldog has a surprising predilection for dismemberment
The Devil Is No Match for Procedural Liberalism (Pelagia and the White Bulldog (Conclusion))
The rule of law is boring, but necessary
The Dog Days Are Over (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 3)
Underneath a veneer of coziness lies the potential for violence and exploitation.
Pelagia Descending into the Underworld (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 9)
Pelagia impersonates herself
All Dogs Go to Heaven (Pelagia and the White Bulldog 5)
Perhaps we’re all in some mirror universe episode of Scooby Doo, and Pelagia is Velma?
Provincial Purity vs. Capital Crimes (Pelgaia and the White Bulldog 7)
Capitals destroy the soul.
Off-White like Dzhokhar
What do Americans see when they look at the faces of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev? And do Russians see the same thing?
Interrogating the Declining Significance of Pushkin’s Blackness: Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, and Literary Nationalism (with Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang)
On October 14th, Professors Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang, both of Notre Dame, joined the Jordan Center to speak about their collaborative work on race and literature in talk entitled...
Slavic Studies' Heart of Whiteness
SEELANGS may have finally turned me into a Ukrainian nationalist.
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.
New-Generation Warfare and the Fringe Right: How Russian Interference Impacts Right-Wing Extremism in the US, Part III
The white supremacist fascination with Putin’s Russia is not alarming only because it represents a distasteful admiration for anti-democratic and authoritarian values but also because it presents a direct threat...
Expanding the ‘Mental Phone Book’: Unconscious Bias and Diversity in Conference Panels and Edited Volumes
An editor or panel organiser cannot involve every participant from their immediate, instinctive ‘mental phone book’ every time.
Gender Trouble in The Double: Masculinity in Dostoevsky’s Novella and Ayoade’s Film
Right from the outset, Ayoade’s film establishes the presence of a masculine hierarchy.
Journalists discuss the role of race in US-Russia relations
"The alt-right has found a natural ally in Russia's current zeitgeist."