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The Path to "Healthy Conservatism”: Values-Based Regime Legitimation in Putin’s Russia
As the Kremlin's definition of conservatism evolved, it moved from privileging stability, to emphasizing control, to, finally, understanding conservatism as traditionalism. These shifts were both gradual and reactive, responding to...
Sergei Eisenstein and Immersion in Nature
On October 23, 2020, the Jordan Center hosted Joan Neuberger, Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin, for a talk on Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein’s...
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...
Reconstructing Stalingrad: The Struggle to Rebuild and Redefine the "Hero City" After 1943, Part II
On Tuesday, June 15, 1943, the front page of "Stalingradskaia pravda" ran a letter to the editor, penned by a group of nineteen women led by a one A. M....
Micromanaging Russia's Elections
The message from the Kremlin is clear: Challenge the regime at your own risk
The Competing Campaigns of the Russian Opposition
Next year, opponents of the Kremlin are hoping to recreate the success they achieved during the 2017 municipal election in Moscow — this time in Russia’s northern capital, St. Petersburg....
Spring Reading Series: Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Beyond Tula," Part I
"Beyond Tula" has a transparently insignificant plot: a young writer from the city comes to visit his engineer friend in the country for a couple of days, and everything ends...
Local Elections and the Durability of Illiberal Regimes in Hungary and Poland
Democratic backsliding is a global malady, with political and institutional challenges to liberal democracy and the rule of law becoming widespread. Central Europe, in spite of European Union requirements that...
Trump, Russia, and "Rigged" Elections
Trump helps Putin most by depicting the U.S. electoral system as “rigged.”
Russians will be voting on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know.
Seven things to know about the coming election.
Excerpt from "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time," Part I
Only through self-commemoration could the Stalinist memory regime complete the intergenerational chain of memory, assuring individuals that their community possessed not only an ancient past, but also a limitless future.
Vladimir Putin and the Great Patriotic War in the “Russia — My History” Museum
During Putin’s “restoration of patriotism,” separating out those who question the heroism of the Great Patriotic War has become an essential aspect of defining who truly belongs to the national...
Noncompetitive elections and dissent: Evidence from the USSR
Sept. 12 marked the opening of the Jordan Center’s Fall 2014 Colloquium Series with a presentation by Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor at the NYU Department of Politics, whose current research...
Between Soviet Homeland and Yiddish Cosmos: Yevgeniy Fiks at the Stanton Street Shul
Yevgeniy Fiks’ solo exhibition “Himl un erd: Yiddish Cosmos” at Stanton Street Shul in New York (on view Sundays from 1–6pm, Mondays & Wednesdays from 4–7 pm, November 18–December 16)...
Stuck at a Crossroads? Bulgaria After the October 2022 General Elections
On October 2, 2022, Bulgarians voted in general elections for the fourth time in eighteen months. At 39%, turnout was the lowest since 1990 – and the electoral race produced...
Tsar Nicholas Putin: Continuity or Coincidence?
On a cold December morning in the capital city a crowd gathered to protest Russia’s new ruler. Slogans and cheers sounded through the winter air as the people awaited the...
Will Russia’s economic turmoil affect its foreign policy?
How is the current financial crisis in Russia likely to affect Putin’s foreign policy choices in the short to mid-term future?
The Bashkir Vanishes?
How Bashkirs endure the intense Russian nationalism characteristic of the last decade remains to be seen.
When does Russian propaganda work — and when does it backfire? Here’s what we found.
After examining Russia’s 2014 disinformation campaign in Ukraine, we found that Russian propaganda has very uneven effects. Whether it sways individuals to vote for pro-Russian candidates — or backfires, and...
Parliamentary Daydreams in Belarus: When the Rubber-Stamp Really is Just a Rubber-Stamp
Belarus held parliamentary elections in November 2019, producing one of the most unsurprising electoral results in recent history, even by Belarusian standards.