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Professor Natalia Levina Speaks on Ukraine at an NYU Community Discussion
If you are wondering what you can do to help them, I am sure the people of Ukraine appreciate all the donations coming their way. Thank you from the bottom...
One Year Ago: Professor Natalia Levina Speaks on Ukraine at NYU
I grew up in Kharkiv. Countless memories are tied to the main city square, which has now been bombed. Almost a year ago, I learned that my own childhood home...
Demographic Messaging in Russian Television Films After 2008: “I Am Happy” (2010) and “The Millionaire” (2012)
On 15 August 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order reinstating the Mother-Heroine medal. The original award, conferred in USSR between 1944 and 1991, rewarded mothers of ten or more living children with a medal and various privileges
The Reception of Russian Poetry by Russian-American Bilingual Children
The number of US-based private schools, studios, and weekend classes offering Russian as a heritage language has increased in recent years. The question of whether poetry should be part of...
Open Letter in Support of DOXA
We demand that the charges against Natalia Tyshkevich, Vladimir Metyolkin, Armen Aramyan, and Alla Gutnikova be immediately dropped and that all four be released, and we express our wholehearted support...
Speak, Memory: The Case of Yuri Dmitriev, Part II
Historian Yuri Dmitriev’s initial arrest came on December 13, 2016. It was the beginning of a nightmare involving months of pre-trial detention, two psychological examinations, and finally an acquittal –...
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...
Interrogating the Declining Significance of Pushkin’s Blackness: Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, and Literary Nationalism (with Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang)
On October 14th, Professors Korey Garibaldi and Emily Wang, both of Notre Dame, joined the Jordan Center to speak about their collaborative work on race and literature in talk entitled...
The Hobbit Menace (Russia's Alien Nations)
Fine, we'll be your evil empire.
Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part I
In 2009 the former chair of the Donetsk Strike Committee recalled in an interview to the newspaper "Segodnia," “We never pursued the goal of Soviet collapse. We were against the...
Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part II
By describing the benefits the mine accrued thanks to its specialists and white-collar employees, the "Izvestiia" article points to the intellectual nature of work performed by those striking miners called...
Baltic Orthodox Monasticism
On 26 August 2018, an icon procession left the red-brick gates of the Pühtitsa convent, eastern Estonia: nuns in jet-black habits, priests in aqua vestments, and choristers in crimson velvet...
Save Ukrainian Cultural Heritage!
What we are doing in the virtual cloud depends on what happens there, on a battleground. There is a list of cities and towns currently under attack, and it is...
Writing around War: Parapolemics, Trauma, and Ethics
One striking strategy employed by Ukrainian writers across various genres is what literary historian Kate McLoughlin calls "parapolemics"—that is, focus on the spatial or temporal "outskirts" of war.
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.
Red-Colored Glasses: Review of "Everyday Soviet" at Rutgers' Zimmerli Museum
"Everyday Soviet: Soviet Industrial Design and Nonconformist Art" (1959-1989) is on view until May 17, 2020 at Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The Story of the Russian “Winnie the Pooh,” Part II
Zakhoder’s Vinni Pukh tends to make snarky comments that speak directly to adult reality.
Dispatches from NYU Libraries
Digital, Political, Prescient: New Directions in Russian Press History
Since the collapse of the Soviet regime three decades ago, the Russian press has experienced a revival that transformed it into an important forum for political discussion and debate in...
Rewriting Russian History Through Cinematic Representations of Revolutionary Terrorism
Russian revolutionary terrorism is a perennial subject for state-sanctioned historical reconstruction, receiving a wide variety of treatments in cinema from the early Soviet period to the present day.