Semantics, not anti-Semitism, may be behind Putin’s gaffe.
Continue reading...Society of Thieves. Protection of the Socialist Property under Stalin
Elena Borzenkova
Stealing public property was a mechanism for coping with the Socialist realities
Continue reading...Oksana Mykhed discusses the role of the plague in the making of the Ukrainian border
Ilaria Parogni
On November 6, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed historian Oksana Mykhed to present a lecture titled “A Plague on your Borders: Public Health and the Making of Russian Imperial Boundaries in Ukraine, 1762-95.” The lecture was based on a chapter from her upcoming book on the history of incorporation of Right-Bank and Central Ukraine into the Russian Empire between 1762 and 1860. As explained by NYU Professor Anne O’Donnell in her introduction, Mykhed defended her PhD dissertation at Harvard University in 2014 and was previously affiliated with the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Day 1 – Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
Ilaria Parogni
On February 26, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a two-day workshop on the topic of racial categorizations in Russia. The event, titled Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union and convened by David Rainbow, a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, was co-sponsored by NYU Department of History, Global Research Initiatives (NYU Provost), the Harriman Institute and the Humanities Initiative (NYU).
Why Conspiracy Theories Take Hold in Russia
Eliot Borenstein
All it takes is an hour or two of Russian state television to learn that someone is plotting against Russia. Watch for a few more hours, and you’ll find that everyone is plotting against Russia. Watch for a few more days, and the truth comes out: Russia is plotting against Russia.
Continue reading...Protocols of the Elders of Ukraine
Kathryn David
The flyer played upon the fears that continue to plague Jews around the world: unstable governments will ultimately turn their forces on the Jews, especially countries with long histories of anti-Semitism.
Continue reading...Crimea and the Jewish Problem
Eliot Borenstein
When the words “Russia” “Ukraine” and “Jews” appear in the same English-language sentence, I prepare for the worst.
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