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Book Review: Sophie Kotzer's "Nationalism and the Soviet State During the Gorbachev Years, 1985-1991"
Sophie Kotzer’s "Nationalism and the Soviet State During the Gorbachev Years, 1985-1991" (Routledge, 2021) examines the changing relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), the state, and society through the...
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...
Homophobia, Denial, and Propaganda: The HIV/ AIDS Pandemic in the 1980s Soviet Union
Although the Western media began discussing the AIDS epidemic as early as 1981, it was not until 1983 that Soviet outlets mentioned the issue for the first time.
Refugees: the challenge of being in between past, present and future
On Thursday, April 25, the Jordan Center hosted a discussion session with Professor Peter Gatrell from the University of Manchester. Gatrell is a specialist on Russian social and economic history,...
Roaming Academics: An Immigrant Story
People ask me all the time where I will, or want to live when I finish my PhD, as if I am supposed to be able to answer that question.
Expanding the ‘Mental Phone Book’: Unconscious Bias and Diversity in Conference Panels and Edited Volumes
An editor or panel organiser cannot involve every participant from their immediate, instinctive ‘mental phone book’ every time.
Linor Goralik: Excerpts from "Biblical Zoo"
The rabbit conveys to you that you can’t even imagine how and what he pees and poops—but soon you will.
All the Russias: A Transnational Approach
A new approach underpins "Transnational Russian Studies," edited by Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings, just published by Liverpool University Press. Our book opens up the map of Russian...
Sources or Theories? On a False Dichotomy in the Study of Russian Literary History, Part II
In my view, the unavoidability of what amounts to a choice between knowledge and interpretation has had a particularly detrimental effect on research in nineteenth-century literature.
Excerpt from Łukasz Stanek's "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War," Part I
Eastern European architectural labor in West Africa and the Middle East was both postcolonial and socialist. It was postcolonial in the sense that independence fundamentally changed the conditions of architectural...
Excerpt from Łukasz Stanek's "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War," Part II
The controversies around socialist labor point to what might be the main dilemma of this book: the relationship between the studied architectures and the project of socialism. This relationship was...
Trade, Trust, and De Facto State Conflicts: Abkhazia’s International Economic Engagement
Abkhazia’s economic interactions with Russia, with Georgia proper, and with the EU demonstrate that the interrelation between trade and trust is more complex than often assumed. Trade does not necessarily...
“Those crazy Americans, of course Pushkin’s not black!”
Last Friday, a group of scholars gathered in the wonderful space of NYU’s newly established Africa house to discuss connections of various forms between Russian and Africa. We were a...
Day 1 - Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
On February 26, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a two-day workshop on the topic of racial categorizations in Russia. The event, titled Russia’s...
Impeachment – From the Ukrainian Perspective
Amid the ongoing impeachment scandal, the perspective from Ukraine has largely gone unnoticed. On January 23rd, as part of its New York City -- Russia Public Policy Series in collaboration...