By Eliza Frenkel, Graduate Student, Anthropology In the old Soviet comedy “The Diamond Arm” (1969) the following saying became very popular among Soviet citizens. — Будете у нас на Колыме, милости просим. — When you will be in Kolyma, you are so welcome.— — Нет уж, лучше вы к нам. — No, you’d better come to… Read more »
Tag: History
Reflections on the RSW Panel, Soviet Foreign Relations and the Late Cold War
By Kirby Fleitz, Undergraduate student at HLS On March 12th at 12 pm the Russian Studies Workshop hosted the second panel in the ongoing series Critical Conversations in Russian Studies. Led by IU professor Michael De Groot, the panel was centered around a discussion of Soviet Foreign Relations and the Late Cold War. The panel… Read more »
Reflections on the RSW panel, “The State of Human Rights in Russia Today”
This post is the first in a two-part series on this panel. Part 1: The Fall of Human Rights By Clare Angeroth Franks, REEI alumna On Friday, February 5, 2021 four experts on human rights in Russia gathered to discuss the state of human rights in Russia today as part of the Russian Studies Workshop’s… Read more »
Film Screening: Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov’s “Operation Wedding”
By Iain Viraj Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Recently, the Russian Studies Workshop screened the 2016 documentary film Operation Wedding, the story of a group of Jewish civilians attempting to leave their city of Riga to find a more accepting life and religious freedom outside of The Soviet… Read more »
Reflections on Nataliya Savelyeva’s Talk, “Parasite Organizations”
By Griffin Edwards, MA student, REEI Natalia Savelyeva’s recent lecture “Parasite Organizations: What the Evolution of Direct Sales Marketing in Russia can tell us about Contemporary Capitalism” discussed the reception of direct sales marketing organizations in post-Soviet Russia, from its original stigma to acceptance. Savelyeva’s research seeks to answer questions such as: what were the… Read more »
Reflections on Stanislav Budnitsky’s talk, “Russia’s Great Power Identity and Internet Diplomacy”
Written by Nicholas Ingersoll, Graduate Student, Department of History On November 11, 2020, Dr. Stanislav Budnitsky, a postdoctoral fellow at the IU Russian Studies Workshop, gave a presentation on “Russia’s Great Power Identity and Internet Diplomacy” and its implications for Russia’s approach to internet governance and diplomacy. Dr. Budnitsky’s work investigates how the national identity… Read more »
Tackling the Million-Ruble Question: The Lessons of Soviet Collapse
by Dima Kortukov, PhD student in Political Science This is the first in a special series on IU graduate students and their research, RSW Research Series. It is an opportunity for RSW colleagues and other readers to learn more about our students’ research projects. If you are interested in learning more about this research or connecting… Read more »
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 4, Developing a regional human rights network in Russia
This is the fourth in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Railroads, Tattooed Noblemen, and the Constitutive Other: A Reflection on Ivan Kurilla’s talk “Frenemies: U.S.-Russian Relations from a Historical Perspective”
Written by Stepan Serdiukov, PhD student in History What roles do U.S. and Russia play in each other’s public imaginations? This is what Ivan Kurilla, Professor of History and International Relations at European University in Saint Petersburg, focused on in his March 5 talk at Woodburn Hall 101. Dr. Kurilla started his career as an… Read more »
Reflections on “Hybrid Vigor: The Agency of Dogs in Space“
Written by Justin Monroe, undergraduate student at Indiana University. The first thing that made me interested in Russian history was when learning about the Soviet perspective of the “Space Race” while coming across a film centered around the dogs that the Soviets sent before sending up Yuri Gagarin and other cosmonauts. It was from this… Read more »