What remained of the Persianate literary tradition, after the vernacularizing projects of Soviet, Middle Eastern, and South Asian nation-builders? What remained of its rhetorical resources, after they had been deployed […]
Labor once enjoyed a pride of place in Soviet society. Even in Anglo-American Soviet historiography, labor history had a heyday in the 1980s and 90s. And in the sense of […]
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 […]
Since February 2022, the Russian state has attempted to mobilize its Muslim citizens—and Islam—as pivotal elements in support of the invasion of Ukraine. In turn, the war has confronted Muslim […]
World War II and its aftermath enabled hundreds of thousands of people to leave the USSR and settle permanently abroad. In previous instances of outmigration, the Soviet state had allowed […]
This lecture considers the problem of the cultural value of political mystifications, forgeries, and appropriations. In doing so, I will focus on the historical and ideological contexts (in particular, the […]
How do institutional reforms affect voter mobilization in weakly-institutionalized democracies? I examine the effect of decentralization on turnout and candidate diversity in local elections in Ukraine in 2015-2020. In 2014, […]
Since the beginning of Russia's war in Ukraine, Russian citizens' perception of the war has been one of the central issues discussed by scholars and the public alike. While quantitative […]
Georgian and Soviet investigates the constitutive capacity of Soviet nationhood and empire. The Soviet republic of Georgia, located in the mountainous Caucasus region, received the same nation-building template as other national republics […]
Please join us for another lecture in the Ukrainian Energy Studies series! The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has confirmed not only the centrality of energy to the war, […]
