The Annotated Diary of Lidia Makarovna Androsova
Introduction By crossing the western border of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Nazi Germany opened a second front at a turning point in...
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Jacob K. H. Bennett
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Russian influence in Central Asia is dead
It’s been a long time coming. Even in 1998, Geoffrey J. Jukes, Kiril Nourzhanov, and Mikhail Alexandrov, in an article entitled “Race,...
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Jacob Wagner
- Nov 8, 2022
- 7 min
Neocolonialism or Responsible Developer: The Nature of China’s Identity in the Modern Era
500 years of European imperialism and a persistent Eurocentric streak within Western scholarship has tended to downplay one of the most...
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Zach Johnson
- Nov 1, 2022
- 26 min
Interview with Vladimir Kara-Murza: The Russian Opposition and the Legacy of Boris Nemtsov
Zach Johnson and Taylor Ham interview Vladimir Kara-Murza on the state of the Russian opposition and the legacy of Boris Nemtsov.
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Audrius Rickus
- Nov 1, 2022
- 4 min
Review: Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
I have never seen a cleverer title for a book than Stalin: Paradoxes of Power. The title encapsulates the essence of Stephen Kotkin’s...
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Michelle Daniel
- Oct 17, 2022
- 4 min
Back to the Future: The United Auto Workers Take On the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Walter P. Reuther's letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson in protest of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Eliza Fisher
- Oct 14, 2022
- 27 min
Interview with Bruce Berglund: The Fastest Game in the World
For this episode of The Slavic Connexion, I spoke with Dr. Bruce Berglund, who is a historian and author, as well as a three-time...
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Zach Johnson
- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
A Kaleidoscope of Vulnerabilities: Real and Perceived Threats to the Russian State
From the initial days following the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the inauguration of President Vladimir Putin in May of 2000, the...
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Phoebe Zipper
- Oct 11, 2022
- 6 min
Enchanted Forms: Thoughts on Meaning in Kafka and Cézanne
To be a writer is to always arrive belated to the scene. Analytic in nature, the writer’s task is to take the fullness of experience and...
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Lera Toropin
- Oct 11, 2022
- 15 min
Dissenting Laughter: The Soviet Films of Comic Filmmaker Leonid Gaidai
The films of the King of Soviet Comedy Leonid Gaidai from Khrushchev's Thaw to early Perestroika.
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Eliza Fisher
- Oct 9, 2022
- 9 min
Warrior's Spirit: White Supremacist Visual Messaging in White Rex Merchandise
Symbols denote belonging. Universities, sports teams, companies, and countries have colors and logos, and wearing these symbols is the...
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Michelle Daniel
- Sep 27, 2022
- 3 min
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Review of Hiroshi Kitamura's 2010 book Screening Enlightenment on the effectiveness of Hollywood in post-war Japan cultural reconstruction
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Michelle Daniel
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War by Gregg Brazinsky (2017)
Book review of Gregg Brazinsky's 2017 release Winning the Third World.
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