The four panelists argued that the elections reflect a country undergoing significant changes behind the scenes.
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Ben DaltonRoundtable Discussion on ‘Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union’, a book by Michael David-Fox
Heather Janson
The September 2016 Russian Duma Elections: What Happened and What Does it Mean?
Heather Janson
Day 2 – Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On February 27, 2015 the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the second part of its two-day workshop Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, convened by David Rainbow, a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, and co-sponsored by NYU Department of History, Global Research Initiatives (NYU Provost), the Harriman Institute, and the Humanities Initiative (NYU).
Experts discuss Russian law and its trajectories
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On October 16, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed several scholars to participate in a panel, entitled Russia’s Legal Trajectories: Law in Action and Question, 1830 to 2014. In her introductory remarks, Professor of History at NYU Jane Burbank stated that there are many perplexing ideas about law and Russia. Some commentators think that the rule of law is incompatible with autocratic or Communist governments; for them Russian law is an oxymoron. Yet, Burbank remarked, law has been important to government in Russia for many centuries. In addition, for the last 10 year or so many scholars have been rigorously scrutinizing the subject. This panel was meant to give its audience “a taste of new legal history” in four different presentations about law from the early 19th century, through the legal reforms of 1864, to the current day.
