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Civil Society, Demographics, Vestnik
23 August 2014
On the surface, the institution of Russian serfdom bears great resemblance to other forms of unfreedom, and contemporaneous Western slavery in particular. Like Western European and New World slave owners,…
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31 October 2016
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,…
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International Relations, Vestnik
24 September 2014
“I would like you to know that Serbia is Russia’s partner in the Balkans…Serbia loves you. And you deserved this love by the manner you rule Russia.” -President Nikolić to…
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International Relations, Vestnik
16 April 2015
Europe is divided by conflict yet again between the East and West, between the European Union (EU) and the Russian Federation, in a way arguably not seen since the fall…
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Economic Influencers, International Relations, Political Economy, Security, Theory, Vestnik
4 April 2016
In the wake of the 1990’s, the future of nascent post-Soviet Russia was in the hands of four groups of reformers, who were entrusted with applying a medicine known as…
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Economy, Political Economy, Vestnik
17 April 2015
A large part of Russian society, particularly its political elite, still cherishes the great dream of Russia as a powerful and economically strong global player. Against the backdrop of an…
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Economy, International Relations, Political Economy, Vestnik
20 April 2015
In the two decades since its independence from the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has maintained close ties with Russia, on which it remains economically dependent, while simultaneously reaching out to the…
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International Relations, Vestnik
24 August 2015
Former New York Times correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury worked in the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1953 and covered the 1955 U.S.-Soviet Agricultural Exchange, in which twelve Soviet agricultural delegates…
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Business, Civil Society, Demographics, Economy, Political Economy, Vestnik
28 August 2015
Just as the leadership, citizens, and politics of the USSR changed drastically between 1917 and 1991, so too the Soviet kitchen underwent innumerable changes from generation to generation. Every Soviet…
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International Relations, Vestnik
31 August 2015
April 26, 1986 began like any other day for the Soviet citizens of Pripyat, a little-known city of 50,000 in the Ukrainian SSR. At the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant,…
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Civil Society, Demographics, Vestnik
31 August 2015
The US-Russia Social Expertise Exchange program (SEE), under the auspices of the Eurasia Foundation, facilitates an exchange of knowledge, professionalism, and experience between the US and Russia, two countries with…
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8 April 2021
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,…
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GeoHistories
10 August 2008
The land of Siberia brims with mystery and silence. Nearly incomprehensible size, it brims with natural resources, diverse ecologies and a myriad of peoples. Near the center of the southern…
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Civil Society, Demographics, Health, Vestnik
4 April 2016
In this essay, I analyze political abuses of psychiatry in the Soviet Union by exploring Andrei Snezhnevsky’s diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia—a fictional branch of schizophrenia. Snezhnevsky used his false diagnoses…
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Security, Civil Society
6 April 2024
As someone who works in publishing and with student authors, I have had the opportunity to both work with generative AI and with students working with generative AI. Here, I…
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