With the collapse of the Soviet state, many of the criminals began entering elite positions. The infectivity of the authorities allowed for criminality to roam freely on the streets: terrified and outgunned, police would often patrol for no more than fifteen minutes.
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Professor Kaganovsky’s study focuses on the contributions of the two early Soviet female directors: Esfir Shub and Elizaveta Svilova, “in order to make visible what has largely remained invisible – film editing as women’s work”
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The new Russian avant-garde poetic cohort’s blend of a socialist past with global egalitarian ideas challenges both the discourses of the Russian authorities and the major opposition .
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Professor Harsha Ram’s paper primarily focuses on the poetics, the literary theory, and the politics surrounding the Russian Revolution, and how the particular “convergence of literature and politics can help rethink the problem of world literature.” Focal to Ram’s research are poet Velimir Khlebnikov and artist Vladimir Tatlin, whose unconventional work presented a utopia imbued with a new vision of geopolitics.
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Two tragedies coupled with a failed attempt at completing the film “The American”, broke the “rhythms and networks of meanings” that flowed through the Aleksei Balabanov’s earlier films.
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A colloquium talk on how the Russian Empire subtly stepped into the modern age in the year 1837.
Continue reading...Professors Hilary Appel and Mitchell A. Orenstein discuss a new approach to examining post-communist Eastern European economic policies offered in their book “From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries”.
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Call it a new cold war or a “hot peace,” US-Russia relations are terrible, yet within recent memory the two countries still cooperated on a range of issues. To answer which side is to blame for current tensions, Stephen Cohen debated Michael McFaul at Columbia University.
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A historical sociolinguistic study of social groups in early 20th century Russia reveals particular social dialects among peasants.
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Exclusive state support for a single religion does necessarily mean that the faithful are blasé. Pauline Jones offered a theory explaining why certain kinds of religious regulation lead to different responses from the public.
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“Collective euphoria” may explain the surge in support for Putin that followed Russia’s annexation of Crimea, said Graeme Robertson.
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Surprising no one, Vladimir Putin secured his fourth and possibly final presidential term in an election last March. A panel of scholars discussed what the next six years of Putin could mean for Russia and the world.
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Susan Smith-Peter discusses the shaping of Russian provincial identity amidst the Great Reforms.
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Rachel Applebaum discusses the development and narrativization of Soviet-Czechoslovak relations through the 20th century.
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Filmmaker and Visiting Fulbright Scholar Alexander Markov spoke of the line between propaganda and art that Soviet documentarians walked in Africa.
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The shaping of Communist ideology in the midst of 20th-century geopolitics informed Stalin’s domestic policies as well as the Soviet Union’s role on the world stage.
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Jessica Pisano spent 15 years learning why everyday Russians and Ukrainians choose to participate in “theatrical” elections. She found coercion, but also individual agency.
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Research from Russia suggests that financial disclosure requirements may dissuade corrupt incumbents from seeking re-election.
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