Faith VanVleetNov 28, 202312 minCentral & Eastern EuropeWhat is Poland? Changes in how Polish Writers for the Literary Magazine Kultura Viewed Nationality “A backward country inhabited by millions of superstitious, fanatically religious peasants.” This depiction candidly illustrates how...
Nicholas PierceNov 14, 202319 minCultureFrom the Volga to the San Saba: Two German Communities in the Frontier SpaceIntroduction In 1766, hundreds of German families sailed into Kronstadt from the cold Baltic Sea, seeing the Russian Empire for the first...
Faith VanVleetOct 24, 20237 minLiteratureBabi Yar Through the Eyes of Soviet PoetsIn September of 1941, Nazi forces in Ukraine committed the largest mass murder of Jews in all of World War II. Over 100,000 people were...