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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...
ZERO Die In Russian Gay Night Club Shooting. You'll Never Guess the Reason Why.
It is because of the guns they used.
Parliamentary Daydreams in Belarus: When the Rubber-Stamp Really is Just a Rubber-Stamp
Belarus held parliamentary elections in November 2019, producing one of the most unsurprising electoral results in recent history, even by Belarusian standards.
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...
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.
Dostoevsky, Demons, and The Donald
It’s never a good sign when real life resembles a Dostoevsky novel.
Candid about the Camera: Tolstoy Scholars on Adapting Anna Karenina
Tolstoy can be so unforgiving with his ladies.
All the "Pravda" about International Women’s Day
Examining March-8th dispatches in Pravda between 1920 and 1991 reveals a gradual shift in the official feminine ideal: at first, women were glorified as fellow workers and builders of socialism;...
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...
Yelena Khanga, Belonging, and Blackness in Russia
Early in Episode 694 of the This American Life podcast, "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged," hosts Emanuele Berry and Ira Glass are watching clips from the 1936 Soviet...
Diary entry. Purim, March 17, 2022.
What is happening today is not the same fascism we have witnessed before. This is a new form of false consciousness, and it is important that we analyze it.