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Mr. Xi Goes to Moscow: Much Ado About Nothing?
A more nuanced appraisal of Russia’s relationship with China tells us a great deal about both how Russian elites define their country’s core interests and possible trajectories for Russian foreign...
“Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!”: celebrating political masculinity in Russia
A key element of Vladimir Putin’s legitimation strategy has been the cultivation of a macho image.
The Leviathan and the Gutter: Gefter.ru interviews NYU's Mikhail Iampolski (Part I)
There’s no law, Putin is absolutely impotent, he can’t do anything. That’s it. All that’s left is to sit there, like a medieval serf, and hope to God that you...
The Leviathan and the Gutter: Gefter.ru interviews NYU's Mikhail Iampolski (Part II)
It’s all very sad, I think. The capacity for thought has already disappeared, and now dignity is gradually being snuffed out, but I don’t see any solutions. People still depend...
In "Mr. Jones," Stalin’s Man-Made Famine Offers Lessons for the Present
What can the Holodomor teach us today about the importance of journalistic integrity and the dangers of historical revisionism?
Prison or War? Why Paperpaper.ru Readers Are Choosing to Stay in Russia, and What They Plan to Do Next
On the third day of mobilization in Russia, Paperpaper.ru’s investigative unit surveyed our readers to find out if they're trying to avoid being drafted, asking about their perceptions of the...
Levada Center Attacked for Doing Research with American Scholars
Social science will suffer as a result.
Russians are protesting! Why? A Monkey Cage Symposium
Do the protests that took place across 99 cities in Russia on Sunday signify that meaningful change in Russian politics is likely?
Colloquium Series: “Bashkiria’s Imperial World,” a discussion with Charles Steinwedel
Charles Steinwedel Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago joined the Jordan Center to discuss his soon to be completed book, Threads of Empire: Making the Russian Empire in...
Upcoming Columbia Event
In Search of Empire: the 400th Anniversary of the House of Romanov February 14th-16th 2013 Co-sponsored by the Bakhmeteff Archive, the Harriman Institute, the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia...
Marks and Angles: An Immigrant Story
You can tell from our left arms.
Alternate Histories: An Immigrant Story
I’m writing this essay rather than hoisting a Kalashnikov for a simple reason: my parents’ determination to leave the Soviet Union.
The Sudden Death of the Romantic (Akunin WQ 5)
As Chekhov taught us, if a whalebone corset appears in Chapter One, it’s bound to get stabbed in Chapter Five.
Lady's Choice (Turkish Gambit 6)
Fandorin sounds less like Akunin and more like Yuliya Latynina
The Abuses of Enchantment (Russia's Alien Nations)
Tolkien has been accused of many things, but subtlety is not among them.
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part II
This week, "All the Russias" is delighted to feature excerpts from Victoria Phillips' book, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," out in 2019 from Oxford University Press....
Go I Know Not Where, Bring Back I Know Not What: The Russian Folktale in Uncertain Waters
Though the hour grows late and the challenges are great, storytelling’s capacity for infinite, liquid change is really just our own – us at our resourceful best.
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.
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin: Geopolitics, Ideas, Power
Sept. 26, 2014, marked the first of the Distinguished Lecture series at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. As director Yanni Kotsonis pointed out, the lectures as...
Experts discuss Russian law and its trajectories
On October 16, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed several scholars to participate in a panel, entitled Russia’s Legal Trajectories: Law in Action and Question, 1830 to 2014. In her introductory...