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From the Volga to the San Saba: Two German Communities in the Frontier Space
Introduction In 1766, hundreds of German families sailed into Kronstadt from the cold Baltic Sea, seeing the Russian Empire for the first...
Nicholas Pierce
Nov 14, 202319 min read


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...
Phoebe Zipper
Oct 11, 20226 min read


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.
Lera Toropin
Oct 11, 202215 min read


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