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Poor Liza and Russia’s Sentimental Marketplace
On December 11, 2020, the Jordan Center welcomed Prof. Kirill Ospovat for a talk on links between narrative modes and visions of economy that defined Russian sentimentalism. Through a close...
The Fridging of Poor Liza (The Winter Queen - The Final Chapter)
So much for the nineteenth century’s exquisite taste.
The New Cold War is Cold-Blooded: Mass Hysteria and Sex Lizards in Space
We are on the verge of a new era. The world’s first Earth-orbiting sex lizard satellite has been launched by the Russians – and they’ve already lost all contact with...
The Power Practices of Neutrollization and Trickstery in International Digital Society
The design of the two Russia-linked disinformation campaigns exposed by Facebook reveals a peculiar mix of neutrollization and trickstery in action.
The Orc-Song of Mikhail Y. Elizarov (Russia's Alien Nations)
The song is an implicit call for the renewal of Orc pride.
Film Editing as Women’s Work: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova, and the Culture of Soviet Montage
Professor Kaganovsky’s study focuses on the contributions of the two early Soviet female directors: Esfir Shub and Elizaveta Svilova, “in order to make visible what has largely remained invisible –...
Post-Soviet Transformations as a Shame-Mediated “Civilizing Process”: Neoliberalization, Academia, and the War in Ukraine
I recently attended a workshop where each participant presented their observations about the state of national identity in the Baltic States. One of my arguments in the workshop was that...
Putin's Mobilization and the Crimean Tatars: What Can We Expect?
Putin’s decision to mobilize Crimean Tatars may backfire. He has underestimated them just as he completely misunderstood Ukraine.
Evolution of Latinization in Turkic states: From Sovietization to Nationalization
Central Asia's current process of Latinization is strongly linked to the legitimization of power, the construction of postcolonial identity, and the search for geopolitical balance between Russia and Turkey. At...
Charting religious regulation and mobilization in Central Asia
Exclusive state support for a single religion does necessarily mean that the faithful are blasé. Pauline Jones offered a theory explaining why certain kinds of religious regulation lead to different...
Narratives of Childbirth in Tolstoy’s "War and Peace"
I started to wonder if the very fact that there is not much to Liza’s birth scene might precisely be the point. Because, while a birth scene can be understood...
The Americans: "Take Your Daughter to Work" Day
Previously, on the Walking Dead…
The Snowball Effect: An Immigrant Story
When I tell my story of immigration, which story do I tell?
The Incels and the Injured: Dostoevsky Against Toxic Masculinities
No shortage of contemporary horrors were prophesied by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works: The Brothers Karamazov presages totalitarianism; Demons—terrorism; Diary of a Writer, the author’s ongoing, raw, dialogic polemic—Twitter. Although the author’s...
The Americans: The Marriage Plot against America
Even if our heroes survive the season, their future looks bleak.
Progress: Threat or Menace? (WQ 15)
We can all learn something from villains.
Prison or War? Why Paperpaper.ru Readers Are Choosing to Stay in Russia, and What They Plan to Do Next
On the third day of mobilization in Russia, Paperpaper.ru’s investigative unit surveyed our readers to find out if they're trying to avoid being drafted, asking about their perceptions of the...
Russians are protesting! Why? A Monkey Cage Symposium
Do the protests that took place across 99 cities in Russia on Sunday signify that meaningful change in Russian politics is likely?
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...
Life with the Russian Émigré Community of Australia
When I married a Russian Australian and moved to Sydney in 2019, my family friends shook their heads, as if to say, “Here we go, another one of our girls...