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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...
Second World Problems (and their solutions)
I wanted to write about the plane crash in Kazan but I keep sneezing because my apartment is dusty.
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...
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...
Cyborgs, Weak Cosmists, and a Russian Planet
Is Cosmism becoming a new Eurasianism?
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.
Event Recap: The State of US-Russia Relations One Year into the Biden Administration
On November 29th, 2021, the Jordan Center and the Columbia University Harriman Institute hosted experts for a panel on “The State of US-Russia Relations One Year into the Biden Administration.”...
Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically
Dostoevsky was well aware of the power of the gothic.
Тhе Story of the Russian “Winnie the Pooh,” Part I
"A Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump…a Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a Hoffable Hellerump!"
Will Somebody Please Write This Novel?
The dependably inventive G. Willow Wilson has just come out with a novel called Alif the Unseen, which somehow combines gray hat Arab hackers, would-be Islamic terrorists, and troublemaking djinns...
Dzokhar Tsarnaev, Neil Gaiman and the Failure of Imagination
Forgive me for seeming to trivialize a tragic story that has already been overexploited, but I have to ask: has anyone out there noticed how much Dzhokhar Tsarnaev looks like...
CNN Interview | Russia facing strong economic sanctions
Rereading Akunin: An Introduction
Why reread Boris Akunin? For that matter, why read him in the first place? And, for God’s sake, why blog about it?
Sith Lords of the World, Unite! (Russia's Alien Nations)
The very last people who can determine what is universal bout such stories is the Anglo-Saxon audience.