How is the Gulag represented in the former Soviet Union? Many books have been published both by former prisoners who describe the day-to-day of Soviet concentration camps, and by numerous historians […]
Join us for another 19v seminar! "It is often the case that husbands kill their wives’s lovers; sons, their fathers, frequently conspiring with their mothers and friends after they had caught them […]
In 1961, construction of the industrial town of Darkhan started in the northern Mongolian steppes. The project was carried out through the joint effort of six socialist countries, among them […]
Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Russia’s war on […]
Tomila Lankina will present her book The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class (Cambridge University Press, 2022). The book argues that the Bolsheviks failed to obliterate […]
How do societies explain what happened during war, what they did and what was done to them? In the Soviet Union after World War II theater played a central role […]
In this talk, Mieka Erley will present selected episodes from her recent book, On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality. As a whole, the book takes an ecocritical approach to the place […]
The late 1940s are generally considered a time of notorious Soviet isolationism and anti-western hysteria, fomenting by Kremlin. Likewise, the Truman administration’s anxieties about containing communism touched off a series […]
Join us for another 19v seminar! This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Description to come.
Join us for another installment in our series of conversations hosted by Jordan Center Distinguished Journalist in Residence Dr. Yevgenia Albats. Throughout the year, Dr. Albats will be joined by […]
