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A Transnational History of Alaska by Susan Smith-Peter
The decision to sell and buy Alaska was informed by different types of empire each country chose to pursue.
New York Public Library Appoints Full-Time Slavic Curator
On October 15, 2018, Bogdan Horbal became the full-time Slavic curator at the New York Public Library. He holds a Ph.D. in history from University of Wrocław in Poland and...
Civil Society in 19th-Century Russia
Susan Smith-Peter discusses the shaping of Russian provincial identity amidst the Great Reforms.
Theater Review: Jonathan Leaf's "Pushkin," Now Playing at New York's Sheen Center
When I saw the Sheen Center's new Pushkin play (which runs until August 25), I came aware of both the reverence I should have felt were I Russian and the...
Guns for Lenin: A New Jersey Love Story
A family stands in a field. The woman has flowers in her hair and a revolver in her hand. The man stands proudly with a rifle beside him, while their...
What do Scholars of Russia owe Ukraine?
As scholars of Russia, we need to undertake a searching moral inventory to see the ways in which we have taken the Russian state’s point of view as a default.
Rethinking “The Archives” in the Aftermath of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Part I
Just as Europe must plan for an energy future without Russian fossil fuels, the field of history and related fields must plan for a future without access to Russian archives.
Rethinking “The Archives” in the Aftermath of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Part II
Instead of giving funding for travel to archives in Russia, funding should be determined by the project itself. Scholars should be able to propose travel to a variety of places...
Margaret Samu on the reception of the female nude in Imperial Russia
What does the reception of the female nude tell us about Westernization, art criticism and taste in Imperial Russia?
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...
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...
How Will Our Scholarship On Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture Change In Response To Russia's War On Ukraine?
On May 25, 2022, six scholars—all primarily Russia specialists—responded to the question of how scholarship on nineteenth-century Russian culture would change in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The present...
Edward Cohn explores “prophylactic policing” in the Soviet Baltics
On April 1, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Edward Cohn for a colloquium on “A Soviet Theory of Broken Windows: Policing and the...
Yanni Kotsonis shares the value of babushka stories at NESEEES
On April 2, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference (NESEEES,...
Diana Greene introduces her project on 19th-century Russian women's novels
Why are there no canonical 19th-century Russian women novelists?
Elidor Mëhilli explores Albanian filmmaking across the 1960s Sino-Soviet split
Albeit brief, Albania was for a short while held up by China as a model for socialism.
Ada Dialla links Vereshchagin's art to the rise of humanitarianism in 19th-century Russia
Contributing to a “humanitarian narrative,” Vereshchagin’s work helped craft a bond between those who suffer and those who empathize with that suffering.
James Andrews on how the Moscow metro tells the story of socialism
There were no fortresses, which the Bolsheviks could not overcome.
Getting One Thing Straight: “Postmodernists” Are Not the Problem
Discussions of Trump and Putin as “Postmodern politicians” come in many different forms and degrees of sophistication. My own modest contribution is intended only to dispel a bit of confusion...
A Push for Digital History in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
My research examines German prisoners-of-war (POWs) in the USSR from 1941 to 1956. My dissertation, which I am currently transforming into a book manuscript, treats the reasons that Soviets held...