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The Art of Empathy: An Interview with Russian Graphic Artist Victoria Lomasko
What we need right now in Russia are some hybrid forms of journalism that can address the problems with actually existing journalism.
Victoria's Open Secret (or Russia Embraces Granny Panties)
If there is one topic that is all over the Russiasphere news right now, it is underpants. Ladies' underpants.
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part I
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....
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....
Excerpt from Victoria Phillips' "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy," Part III
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....
"Fantasy is Not History": Historian Victoria Smolkin Assesses Putin’s Claim that Modern-Day Ukraine is a "Gift" from the Bolsheviks
To understand the scholarly merits of Ukrainian and Soviet history as presented by Mr. Putin, "Meduza" turned to Dr. Victoria Smolkin, a historian at Wesleyan University who studies Communism, the...
One Year Ago: Historian Victoria Smolkin Assesses Putin’s Claim that Modern-Day Ukraine is a "Gift" from the Bolsheviks
As a historian, what struck me most about the historical narrative of Vladimir Putin’s speech was not only what “historical facts”—to borrow his terminology—Putin used, but also what he left...
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...
Revolution vs. Pedagogy: Arkady Gaidar and the Making of Soviet Children’s Literature
Gaidar’s revolutionary anti-pedagogy aimed at releasing the uncontrollable energy of childhood and yet turned out to be a surprisingly successful mediator between this energy and order, myth and social reality.
Paralysis of Complicity in Dmitri Prigov and Beyond: How to Do Things With Metaphors Now?
For many of us who feel complicit—through language, citizenship, or background—in the crimes Russia is carrying out in Ukraine right now, it feels necessary to reassess the metaphors we have...
Utopia Interrupted
When I was designing "Utopia Interrupted," my main goal was to foreground the diversity of voices and forms of difference of Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture that is often...
Socrates in Russia, Part I
The story of Socrates has long been a vessel for interpretation. Philosophers, writers, and artists in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Soviet and post-Soviet space have actively participated in this process,...
Day One of “Hegel to Russia and Back”: Master, Slave, Falling Stones and Russian Hegelians
April 12 marked the opening of the two-day conference “Hegel to Russia and Back,” sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, CUNY, and the Jordan Center. The very first panel, “Wrestling with...
Distorting Russia: How the US Media Misrepresent Sochi, Putin, and Ukraine
American media on Russia today are less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological than when they covered Soviet Russia during the Cold War.
The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities
Among the crucial questions rarely discussed in the US political-media establishment: What is the role of the “neo-fascist” factor in Kiev’s “anti-terrorist” ideology and military operations?
It's the economy, durachok! A Snapshot of the Current Mess
Foreign policy is completely related to the economy. Internationally Russia has been finding itself less and less capable, less able to exert lasting influence.
“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.
By Misunderstanding Crimea, the West Is Pushing Russia Further Away
On the recent anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea, residents of the peninsula came out on the streets to celebrate waving flags, cheering and clapping. There was music and...
Obama and the US Miscalculation on Russia
American policy makers, the media, and social media feel the need to perform their values at someone’s expense, and calculated wrongly that there would be no consequences if that someone...
Lenin Lives: An Exhibition at the Van Every Gallery, Davidson College
Artists and politicians alike recognized the symbolic significance of Lenin’s public image.