The Russian threat is much more dangerous inside Russia.
Continue reading...Russian Meddling and Fake News, Part Four: The Curse of Glory
Vasily Gatov
Russian Meddling and Fake News, Part Three: The Counter-Counter-Counterintelligence State
Vasily Gatov
Unlike the USSR, Russia is not a treasure trove of intelligence talent (which is needed to produce powerful active measures), nor does it espouse an ideology that distinguishes friends from foes (another crucial component)
Continue reading...Russian Meddling and Fake News, Part Two: Fearless Hybrid Defense
Vasily Gatov
Putin walks down the lines of computers staffed with guys in uniform and directs them personally: “Hurt Hillary more! Spur racial discord further! Support Trump!”
Continue reading...Russian Meddling and Fake News, Part One: Sell Me More Diapers and Napkins, Please
Vasily Gatov
“Russian affairs” have became a hot topic taken up by writers who lack the proper expertise or necessary restraint
Continue reading...Russia’s Relations with the West one Year after the US Presidential Elections
Daria Prokhorova
One year after the US presidential elections, what is the current state of US-Russian/Eurasian relations and what can we expect for the future?
Continue reading...Enabling Russian Paranoia: A Response to Thomas Weber
Eliot Borenstein
We may not be colluding with Russia, but we are handing over propaganda victories free of charge
Continue reading...Julia Sweet discusses the role of collective memory in Putin’s propaganda machine
Daria ProkhorovaJulia Sweet considers the Russian state’s most effective propaganda strategies in maintaining anti-Ukrainian sentiment.
Continue reading...Is “fake news” fake news?
Eliot Borenstein
Images against Words: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at War, 1941-1945
Natasha Bluth
Russia is Attacking Western Liberal Democracies
Roman Gerodimos, Fauve Vertegaal and Mirva Villa
Russia is engaging in an orchestrated, strategic campaign whose purpose is to erode liberal democracy in Europe and the United States.
Continue reading...Russian Propaganda and the Return of the Repressed; or, Why the Cheese Never Stands Alone
Eliot Borenstein
The Paleo Diet has finally been knocked from its perch as the stupidest food trend of the twenty-first century, replaced by an even stranger phenomenon: the Russian government’s mass, televised destruction of banned imported food.
Continue reading...Irina Sandomirskaja discusses cultural significance of Russian icon in Soviet context
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On March 13, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of Cultural Studies at Södertörn University, to present a paper entitled “Originating in Return: Russian Past, Soviet Legacy, and Critical Cultural Heritage Theory.” After a brief introduction by Professor Anne Lounsbery, chair of the NYU department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Sandomirskaja stated that in the past she has worked extensively on the relationship between image and word; now she has set off to study the object. In particular, she focused her study on the Russian Orthodox icon and its re-appropriation in Soviet cultural politics.
The media game: Putting on the Cold War goggles
Ilaria Parogni
As the tension between Russia and the West turns into a deeper rift in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis, many have been tempted to declare the beginning of a new Cold War. The English-language media – both Western and Russian – has taken the approach a step further. Flicking through the pages of newspapers or scrolling down a webpage, the tendency towards interpreting current events as a permanent confrontation between Russia and the West is evident: Journalists have put on their Cold War goggles and seem set on keeping them on.
Continue reading...Stephen Norris discusses Boris Efimov and Soviet cartoons
Anastassia KostrioukovaOn October 10, 2014, the Jordan Center welcomed Stephen Norris, a professor of history at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University of Ohio, to speak about his book project, entitled “Communist Cartoonist: Boris Efimov.” Norris’s talk was second in the Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series, which, as Director Yanni Kotsonis explained, encourages scholars to present their ongoing projects in order to receive feedback and comments from the audience.
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin: Geopolitics, Ideas, Power
Anastassia Kostrioukova
Sept. 26, 2014, marked the first of the Distinguished Lecture series at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. As director Yanni Kotsonis pointed out, the lectures as well as the Center itself are meant to “protect conversations about Russia. If one wants to speak of Russia these days, you need protection; if one wants to speak against, you also need protection.” He added: “The only criterion here is intelligence.”
Noncompetitive elections and dissent: Evidence from the USSR
Anastassia Kostrioukova
Sept. 12 marked the opening of the Jordan Center’s Fall 2014 Colloquium Series with a presentation by Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor at the NYU Department of Politics, whose current research focuses on authoritarian states, electoral competitions and statistical methodology. Rozenas presented a paper on the nature of Soviet elections, which he had written several years ago and currently wishes to revive with newly gathered data from the KGB and Communist Party archives in Lithuania.
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