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The Possessed Man
Diderot, Rousseau, and all the rest-eau.
Geography of Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia
How does protest activity in Russia vary by geography?
"For Eight Years They Sat There in Cellars Under Fire!" — On One False Narrative About Ukraine
Some of my Russian Facebook friends are seriously discussing the Putin narrative that claims that, over the past eight years, the Ukrainian military has subjected civilian populations in the so-called...
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.
Crime and Punishment in Today's Russia
Almost 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, crime and policy responses to it are critical to understanding the political dynamics of the region.
Spring Reading Series: Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Beyond Tula," Part I
"Beyond Tula" has a transparently insignificant plot: a young writer from the city comes to visit his engineer friend in the country for a couple of days, and everything ends...
Going to America: Foreign Amity, Domestic Unrest, and the United States in 1860s Russian Literature
Placing Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky's references to the U.S., then engaged in a civil war, within historical context offers a new lens for understanding the authors' divergent visions of Russia's future.
Russia's Relations with the West one Year after the US Presidential Elections
One year after the US presidential elections, what is the current state of US-Russian/Eurasian relations and what can we expect for the future?
Tolstoy's Double, Part II
Tolstoy was sensitive and impressionable, but if a war, a guillotining, an autopsy or a famine was happening nearby, he wanted to see it for himself.