In this, its 22nd issue, Vestnik explores issues as diverse as literature, sports, film, and prisoners of war. Many of these articles focus on these subjects as they intersect politics and social values.
In “Good Health and a Clean Conscience: Constantine Levin as Body and Spirit in Anna Karenina,” Elizabeth Ray, who holds a B.A. in Russian and History from Wellesley College, discusses Levin’s philosophical and spiritual evolution towards happiness, which holds a lesson for us all.
“When Football Mattered: Yugoslav Resilience and the Tito-Stalin Split, 1948-1952” by Garrett Lewis, a graduate student majoring in History and European Studies at Bowling Green State University and Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, examines how football became an expression of national independence and triumph within difficult social, political, and economic contexts.
“Culture & Propaganda: POWs from the Russian Empire in Austro-Hungarian WWI Camps” Nicole “Nika” Cooper, a 2024 graduate of Kenyon College, with degrees in History and German language, looks at how Austria-Hungary used the ethnic identities of its prisoners of war to show itself as virtuous and enlightened while sowing seeds of discontent in the Russian Empire.
Meanwhile, “You’re Next: The Cold War in American Horror Films,” by Liv Whitmore, a rising senior majoring in history and the Russian language at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sees the changing relationship between the American public and the government mirrored in two generations of Cold-War-themed horror films.
Lastly, in “Behind the Mask: Safety, Stigma, and Self-Expression in the Ice Hockey’s Goalie Mask,” Ana de la Llave, an undergraduate studying psychology at the University of South Carolina, examines the storied history and long evolution of the ice hockey mask – mostly in America, but also abroad.
Vestnik was launched by SRAS in 2004 as one of the world’s first online academic journals focused on showcasing student research. We welcome and invite papers written by undergraduates, graduates, and postgraduates. Research on any subject related to the broad geographic area outlined above is accepted. If you have written solid research eligible for publication according to the guidelines listed here, please submit it.
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Issue 22:
- Good Health and a Clean Conscience: Constantine Levin as Body and Spirit in Anna Karenina
- When Football Mattered: Yugoslav Resilience and the Tito-Stalin Split, 1948-1952
- Culture & Propaganda: POWs from the Russian Empire in Austro-Hungarian WWI Camps
- You’re Next: The Cold War in American Horror Films
- Behind the Mask: Safety, Stigma, and Self-Expression in the Ice Hockey’s Goalie Mask
