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Music expert Michael Danilin presents the Russian rock bands of the 1980s
On February 12, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Michael (Misha) Danilin from the NYU Department of Russian and Slavic Studies to speak on...
Lost Diamonds, an Immigrant Story
In this story, who, really, is the precious object that was almost lost?
Peremen! I Want Change!
Last August was marked by ongoing mass protests in Belarus targeting the “last European dictator,” Alexander Lukashenko. This article discusses the song that became the soundtrack of these events: “Peremen!”...
The 40th Anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club, with Joanna Stingray
On March 2, Jordan Center’s Michael Danilin (MA, New York University) hosted Joanna Stingray, a California author and musician who brought Soviet underground music to the Western audience, for a...
Hacking, Heckling, and Conspiracy: Interview with Julia Ioffe
What you need is something we don’t have yet in the case of the election, and might never have, which is somebody from the inside saying, “Here’s how we did...
Women’s Gymnastics and the Cold War: How Soviet Smiles Won Over the West
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union produced a true world star: Olga Korbut, a young gymnast from Belarus who gained fame as the first smiling Soviet athlete.
Plight of the Living Dead: An Update on the Cinematic Saga of “Empire V”
Like its vampiric subjects, the beleaguered film adaptation of Victor Pelevin’s novel "Empire V" can perhaps best be described as neither fully dead nor fully alive. A year after the...
Experts debate The Global History of Sport in the Cold War - Day 1
On October 23, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia opened the New York session of “The Global History of Sport in the Cold War,” a...
Aleksey Burago humanizes Chekhov and his impact on the Moscow Art Theater
The most important quality of Chekhov is his sense of humor.
Excerpt from "Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders," Part III
Orbita’s activities are a concerted effort to deploy Russian language culture on the Latvian scene without reasserting the language of the occupier or reconstructing the official cultural geography of the Soviet era.