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Black woman or Russian fashion accessory? Only her hairdresser knows for sure...
If you’re an art impresario, fashion designer, and related to two (count ‘em, two) Russian oligarchs by blood and by common-law marriage, it can’t be easy finding a new thrill....
‘Take me with you, Putin!’ Erotic Irredentism and the Struggle over Ukraine.
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.
With Russia’s War in Ukraine, Aeroflot Faces Unfriendly Skies, Part I
This blog post reflects on the historical significance of the sudden rupture in global aviation that took place after Russia invaded Ukraine, focusing on Russia and the US in particular....
With Russia’s War in Ukraine, Aeroflot Faces Unfriendly Skies, Part II
Yesterday's post addressed the new cold war in the skies, which has divided the West from Russia as a consequence of Russia's aggression in Ukraine. Sanctions against Russia’s aviation sector...
Gender Dynamics in the Russian Imperial Army during the First World War
Flagging commitment to masculinist patriotism, alongside resurgent patriarchal peasant ideals, may have accelerated mass desertion from the Russian Imperial Army in the First World War and hastened the revolutions of...
Moving Ideas, Static Systems?
In cooperation with the Hagop Kevorkian Center, the Jordan Center recently hosted another symposium in our ongoing Diasporas Series. On Thursday, March 14, the theme was “The Movement of Ideas,”...
The Red Balloon of Russian History: How American Media Misunderstood The Sochi Olympics Opening
Letting go of Communism and the Socialist dream was not the interpretation Russian audiences reached for. And that makes sense—ending a theatrical segment entitled “Dreams about Russia” with the fall...
More of the same: Why Russia’s equity market isn’t down by more
Critics of Putin’s recent tactics have suggested that this time, he has damaged investor confidence beyond repair.
Cyborgs, Weak Cosmists, and a Russian Planet
Is Cosmism becoming a new Eurasianism?
Trump, Russia, and "Rigged" Elections
Trump helps Putin most by depicting the U.S. electoral system as “rigged.”
Talking with Scholarly Publishers (Historia Nova Prize Part II)
What advice would you give a young scholar when submitting a manuscript to your press?
The Belarus Government is Largely Ignoring the Pandemic. Here's Why.
By officially denying the covid-19 danger while benefiting from other countries’ response to the coronavirus — and with Belarusians promoting social distancing despite Lukashenka’s denials — the Belarusian government has...
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...
Alien Rule and Famine in Ireland and Ukraine
In Ireland as in Ukraine, alien rulers in London and Moscow refused to suspend the export of grain and other foodstuffs and supply them to starving farmers in culturally distinct...
Evgeny Finkel applies Tocqueville to the 1861 and 1905 Russian reforms
On May 6, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, for...
Lucan Way argues that revolutionary origins led to Soviet durability
Revolutionary regimes have been among the most durable forms of authoritarianism in the modern era.
A Trial Against Racial Hatred: White Chauvinism and International Communism
On September 21st, Sean Guillory, host of the SRB Podcast and Digital Scholarship Curator in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, joined...
The Difficulty Of Ending a Story: On the ‘Thick Novels
On September 23rd Schamma Schahadat, of the University of Tübingen, joined the Jordan Center for another talk with 19v, a working group on 19th century Russian culture. She discussed Tolstoy’s...
It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia
On October 6th, Fabrizio Fenghi of Brown University joined the Jordan Center to speak about the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) and it’s legacy in his talk, “It Will Be Fun...