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"Aspic" by Tatyana Tolstaya
Darkness comes early. There is a damp frost; you can see spiky halos around the streetlamps. You have to breathe through your mittens. Your forehead aches from the cold, and...
The Politburo Goes Hunting: Masculinity, Nature, and Power in the Soviet Union
Characterized by informality, a tendency to personalize official relationships, and, perhaps above all, by a desire to assert strength and power through a display of manliness, Soviet diplomacy often required...
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.
Is Slavic ready for Minorities?
Very often I’m asked how Slavic Studies can attract more minorities. I’ll tell my own story.
The Road to Serfdom (Russia's Alien Nations)
The New Russian offers a vision of social stratification that uses capitalism as a way station to serfdom
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...
Russian-Speaking Patriotism in Ukraine: Under-Researched and Misunderstood, Part I
Five factors explain the failure of Putin’s “New Russia” project and clarify why Ukraine did not disintegrate in 2014 despite pressure from the Russian military and hybrid warfare.
Circle Games (Unstuck in Time)
Voting Putin back into the presidency made the equation between past and future more literal
The Future is Feudal (Unstuck in Time)
The medieval future, far from being always dystopian, might not even be that bad.
Review: "I Want a Baby and Other Plays" by Sergei Tretyakov, Translated by Robert Leach and Stephen Holland
This new collection of plays by Sergei Tretyakov, translated by Robert Leach and Stephen Holland, attempts to solidify Tretyakov’s role in the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde Canon. In his introduction, Leach...