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Maria Galmarini-Kabala on “defective children” and the state that treated them
Historian Maria Galmarini-Kabala puts her lens on a 1920s children’s sanatorium in search of “norms, discourses and historiographical frames” of the period’s pedagogy.
The Periphery Strikes Back: The 2020 Khabarovsk Protests and Its Impact on Protest Movements and Regionalism in Russia
Russia’s provinces are becoming less accepting of Moscow’s domination, and the 2020 Khabarovsk protests in particular signal the increased willingness of Russia’s peripheral regions to push back.
How Central Asian State Media Outlets Support Their Governments
To secure legitimacy from the public and hence stay in power, autocrats use "external regime legitimation," a process in which a state promotes a positive image of itself by engaging...
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...
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...
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.
Russian scholars explore the use of the term 'biopolitics' in Jordan Center-UCL workshop series
What work is biopolitics doing as a heuristic in the Russian field?
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part I
It is precisely at the intersection of disability advocacy and its politicization in the face of the Cold War that we should trace the development of the international blind movement in the 1970s-1980s.
Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part II
Socialism “focused on political responses to disability, but with a specific ideological twist.”
Orthodox Awakening: The Fraying of Russia's Church-State Alliance
To conclude that the Russian Orthodox Church is nothing more than a bastion of extreme conservatives is to miss the many ways that change is being forced upon it.
Russia’s Grasp on Okhotsk Will Intensify South China Sea Tensions
The closing of the Sea of Okhotsk will also greatly exacerbate maritime tensions in the greater Pacific.
Teaching Race in Russia Part III: Sartre, Jazz, and the Cossack Dance
Sartre’s essay spends considerable time problematizing the intersection of communism and anti-racist politics, asking, “Can the black man count on a distant white proletariat-- involved in its own struggles?"
Teaching Race in Russia: Some Conclusions
I was giving the students a brief biography of Lorde and as soon as I said the phrase “black lesbian Feminist,” their eyes opened really wide. I don’t know if...
A Walk With(out) Svetlana
I write this homage to Svetlana Boym from afar. The news of Svetlana’s passing found me, as many of her friends, too abruptly and too far to pay our homage...
Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically
Dostoevsky was well aware of the power of the gothic.
Alexis in America: The Grand Tour of a Russian Grand Duke, 1871-1872
The story of the Grand Duke’s trip is more than just a tale of forbidden love, political intrigue and colorful characters. It also touches upon important developments and events in...
Of Course, We Didn’t Know: An Immigrant Story
So why not spend some time looking in their eyes?
What “Shooter” Gets Wrong about Russian Conspiracies: The Real Thing Is Way Worse.
To make a long story short, the Ukrainian President is shot in the face by a sniper, and Bob Lee is framed.
Linor Goralik: "She Said, He Said"
Like, here, I had this parrot, and you know, they live a long time. Well, he died, like, he was sitting on my shoulder and all of a sudden I...
Our Pushkin?
Pushkinists know that today is a holiday. The first graduating class of the Tsarkoe Selo Lyceum annually celebrated the anniversary of their first day of school by gathering, drinking, and...