The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics
In the last decade, culture and art have become arenas of forceful political controversy in Russia. Bringing together an international group of scholars from various disciplines – Russian media studies, the history of ideas, political science, literature and gender studies – this book combines assessments of Russian cultural policies, political ideologies and intellectual trends with case studies on Russian literature, film, rap and memory culture.
Irina Anisimova, University of Bergen; Ingunn Lunde, University of Bergen; Jardar Østbø, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies; Ulrich Schmid, University of St Gallen; Kåre Johan Mjør, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/University of Bergen; Dinara Yangeldina, University of Bergen; Johanne Kalsaas, University of Bergen; Stehn Aztlan Mortensen, University of Bergen
Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research — Open Access Journal
Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research offers scholars from Russia and other countries an international platform to publish results of their empirical studies across social sciences. The journal seeks to assist Russian scholars with integration into the international scientific field, as well as to promote in Russia contemporary work by foreign researchers. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research is a bilingual publication printing articles in Russian and English.
Russia File is a blog of the Kennan Institute offering insights into Russia’s politics, history, culture and society, and its relationship with the surrounding region and the Unites States.
The Slavic Humanities Index is a research database in the field of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European Studies. This comprehensive database provides access to scholarly and cultural periodicals published in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
The SRB Podcast’s mission is simple: to provide a space for the many, many interesting thinkers who do amazing work to express their views, discuss their work, and contribute to the larger public discussion on the region. The show also seeks to give the public access to the wonderful and growing body of research that rarely reaches a broad audience but is crucially important, especially as tensions with and in the region flare. It is my hope the SRB Podcast will make a modest contribution to paint a picture of Eurasia in all its complexity and the spread knowledge about it to an interested public.
The project’s main aim is to improve the understanding of Russia and the U.S.-Russian relationship among America’s policymakers and concerned public. It does so by showcasing the best expertise on Russia and its relationships with the rest of the world by providing top-notch analysis, relevant factual data and related digests of news and analysis. Initially, the project’s contributors and institutional partners will be primarily U.S.-based and its main platform for pursuing its goals will be this website.
The specific aims of Russia Matters are to help:
U.S. policymakers and the general public gain a better understanding of why and how Russia matters to the United States now and in the foreseeable future and what drivers propel the two countries’ policies in areas of mutual concern;
Ensure that U.S. policies toward Russia are conducive to the advancement of long-term U.S. vital national interests, but that they also improve cooperation in areas where interests converge and mitigate friction in areas of divergence;
Foster a new generation of Russia experts.
Russia Matters likewise endeavors to build bridges between academe and the policymaking community.
It is our sincere hope that this endeavor will help advance a viable, analytically rigorous U.S. policy on Russia guided by realism, verifiable facts and national interests without sacrificing opportunities for bilateral cooperation.
Russia Matters does not take collective positions. All Russia Matters publications represent only the views of their authors.
Browse and adapt hundreds of standards-aligned lesson plans for K–12 classrooms. Lessons encourage students to make local connections to global news stories, while strengthening skills such as critical thinking, media literacy, and communication.
Violence Overload? Promoting Sensitivity to Human Suffering: The Case of Bosnia
Subject: Social Studies/History, Political Science, Media Themes: Genocide, Human Rights, Memory, Balkans Time: 11 (50-minute) class periods Target Audience: High School Students, Community College, or Supplementary to Collegiate Survey Courses Workshop Developed by: Judith Pintar, Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, UIUC
Rob Whiting, Course Mentor, General Education: Geography, Western Governor’s State University
Elana Jakel, PhD in the Department of History, UIUC Lesson Plans Developed by: Adam Schmitt, Social Studies Teacher at Lincoln Junior High School, Naperville, IL
This module has been designed to help secondary school teachers and community college faculty develop curriculum material that addresses crimes of genocide. Reflecting on the case of the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the module will explore the challenge of teaching students to think about the complex social and psychological dynamics of national, ethnic, and religious violence in a way that avoids reinforcing stereotypes about the social groups involved, and that promotes sensitivity to human suffering.
The Edward and Helen Mardigian Reference and Research Library at NAASR is composed of more than 20,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, and documents, primarily in Armenian and English, dating as far back as the late eighteenth century. The collection encompasses a broad range of topics including history, literature, art and architecture, linguistics, as well as law, anthropology, and natural sciences.
Two circumstances led to the establishment of a library at NAASR. The first was the donation of books on Armenian subjects by NAASR members and their families; the second was the increasing number of requests to NAASR by students, the media, and individuals for information on Armenian topics. The library has become a center for scholars, undergraduates, high school students, and the general public, who have benefited from NAASR’s unique holdings.
Through the years, numerous important and valuable collections have been donated or willed to NAASR and form the heart of the Armenian language collection, and NAASR continues to accept donations. The largest of these collections is the Ani and George Bournoutian Collection of more than 3,000 titles. Other major collections donated to NAASR include those of Hagop Atamian, Dickran Boyajian, Dr. John A. C. Greppin, George Kolligian, Harry Kolligian, Alice Odian Kasparian, Samuel Toumayan, and Manoog S. Young.
The library also contains several important collections of personal papers, including those of the late Avedis Derounian (aka John Roy Carlson), the Rev. Charles Vertanes, Emmanuel P. Varandyan, Haigazn Kazarian, Marderos Deranian, Dicran Simsarian, and others, which represent a substantial source of information for future researchers.
Highlights of the library include a large number of histories of now-destroyed Armenian villages and towns, Armenian dictionaries of many different types, a copy of virtually every title published in English over the past half century, and an enormous trove of newspapers and periodicals, including scholarly journals.
The Mardigian Library's fully searchable catalogue can be accessed by clicking here: NAASR Library Catalogue.
Please note that the NAASR follows Library of Congress transliteration rules for Armenian, Russian, Persian and other languages. We suggest omitting diacritical marks when searching.
Established on April 22, 1929 with the support of the "father of Soviet literature," writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia gazeta is a landmark publication in Russia's cultural heritage. With its focus on literary and intellectual life, Literaturnaia gazeta allowed Soviet Russia’s preeminent authors, poets, and cultural figures a particular podium for commentary, affording perhaps fewer restrictions than might be possible in other publications. Literaturnaia gazeta was considered the most open among newspapers of the Soviet era, and it remains popular among the intelligentsia in today’s Russia.
