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Passover 1934: An American Jewish Immigrant Story
As historians, most of the time we tell stories about strangers.
Mark Konecny shares unexpected history of Russian art in America
On Sept. 18, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Mark Konecny, Associate Director and Curator of the archives and library of the Institute of...
The Contingent Problem: A Counter-Narrative on Race and Class in the Field of Slavic Studies
There is no doubt that the recent focus on diversity and race in our field has had a positive impact, providing much needed–but hitherto absent–institutional support for mentoring and recruiting...
Governing Religion, Mobilizing Faith: Conference Recap
The Jordan Center's first all-day conference of the fall on Friday October 18th: "Governing Religion, Mobilizing Faith"
Race, Diversity, and Our Students in Russia
If we can get students of diverse backgrounds to stay in our classrooms, we then face the challenge to get them to travel abroad.
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...
Energy Aesthetics: Force, Flow, and En-tropy in Russian Culture
Literature, visual arts, popular science brought together Russian scholars in fields ranging from visual arts to literature to anthropology. The aim of the interdisciplinary symposium was to examine “energy as...
Testicles vs. Trunks, or, The Discreet Charms of Public Hooliganism
Testicles, titanic trunks, tourists, and pickled corpses. I offer these words up as the answer in a Russia-themed round of Jeopardy. The question is, of course, "What can be found...
A New Companion for Readers of Dostoevskii
Today, "All the Russias" features an interview with the editors of "A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts," a new volume out this month from Academic Studies Press.
Socialist Trauma and American Politics: Why Many Russians Vote Republican
In general, Russian-speaking Trump supporters seem to accept without question the image the former President promoted: that of a wealthy man who gave up his privileged life in a golden...
How the Female Russian Nihilist Became a Tenacious Archetype
A sensational story about a Russian nihilist bomb plot gripped the imagination of the French reading public for a week in the autumn of 1906. The biggest mass-circulation newspapers published...
Dostoevsky, Demons, and The Donald
It’s never a good sign when real life resembles a Dostoevsky novel.
Julia Sweet discusses the role of collective memory in Putin's propaganda machine
Julia Sweet considers the Russian state's most effective propaganda strategies in maintaining anti-Ukrainian sentiment.
Boys Just Want to Have Fun: Just How Queer are the "Satisfaction" Videos?
The Satisfaction supporters are definitely fighting for something, but it is not LGBT rights
New-Generation Warfare and the Fringe Right: How Russian Interference Impacts Right-Wing Extremism in the US, Part II
It is difficult to say whether anyone, Russia included, could purposely engineer another QAnon movement. However, QAnon is a masterclass in manipulating an audience by playing to its expectations and...
The McCold War: Everything Old Is New Again
The 1990 opening of McDonald's in Moscow hardly heralded the "end of history," not did it usher in an era of peace and prosperity. But it did indicate that Soviet...
Upcoming Columbia Event
In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov February 14th-16th 2013 Co-sponsored by the Bakhmeteff Archive, the Harriman Institute, the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia...
Distorting Russia: How the US Media Misrepresent Sochi, Putin, and Ukraine
American media on Russia today are less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological than when they covered Soviet Russia during the Cold War.
Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Language, or Just say "Ы"!
Lately, it has not only been the vowels that have been hard to stomach in Russia.
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...