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Out Of Odesa: Yefim Ladyzhensky And The "Odesa Text" Of Jewish-Soviet Culture, Beatrice Voorhees

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

This honors thesis analyzes the artwork of Odesan Jewish painter Yefim Ladyzhensky by incorporating information from his unpublished essay collection to contextualize selections from his body of artwork. Ladyzhensky was born in 1911 in Odesa, Russian Empire, and died in 1982 in Israel. He began his artistic career as a set designer, and branched into easel painting in the 1960s, later emigrating to Jerusalem. My project focuses on two major painting series of his, Odessa of My Youth, a collection of over two hundred paintings of childhood scenes, and Red Cavalry, based on Isaac Babel’s short story cycle of the …

Fostering Communist Elites: Cold War Czechoslovakia's Foreign Student Program, Emily Hackett

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

During the Cold War, educational policy became a strategic and consequential avenue of soft power. Countries on both sides of the East-West divide developed travel and study exchanges to cultivate relationships with other countries, and to prepare future generations for work in an increasingly internationalized world. Despite supporting a fear of foreigners and isolating people from travel outside of the Communist bloc, the Soviet Union sponsored select students from other countries to study in its institutions of higher education.

This thesis aims to provide insight into the structure and events of the Czechoslovak foreign student program with the Soviet Union …

Black October: The Migration Of Black Americans To The Soviet Union In The Interwar Period, Alice Volfson

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

Through an in-depth look at first-person accounts, primary documents, and archival research, this project broadens the scope of information available about the interwar migration of Black Americans to the Soviet Union for agricultural, industrial, and artistic initiatives which helped advance the Socialist Project. These men and women had different motivations for their emigration stemming from racial solidarity with various Soviet peoples, economic reasonings, and safety from American racism. This paper hopes to bring to life the stories of those whose legacies have been lost to history by uncovering their lives under communism, their achievements and recognitions, and that of their …

The Other Side Of The Coin: Russification Practices And Perestroika Policies (1985-1991), Lev Pushel

History Honors Papers

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Starry-Eyed: Elena Shvarts As "The Girl With One Hundred Forty-Eight Birthmarks, Laura Little

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

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Becoming An Andegraund Poet: Elena Shvarts And The Literary Environment Of The Late Soviet Era, Laura Little

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

My dissertation focuses on Elena Shvarts (1948-2010), a Russian-language poet of the “unofficial” culture that flourished alongside state-sponsored arts in the post-war USSR. I ask how Shvarts became a leading talent of her generation in 1960s-1970s Leningrad, producing a substantial and sophisticated body of work without access to traditional print audiences. Studying Shvarts’s strategies for self-realization enhances our understanding of the forces that shaped late Soviet literature and the cultural field of dissidence from within and without. I trace her formation and rise to recognition, interweaving discussions of the political, literary, and social environment of her youth and early adulthood …

Museum Representations Of Contested Spaces: The Kuril Islands, Emily Sandall

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a boom of museums focused on the Ainu cultural subject has emerged in both Russia and Japan. By conceptualizing museums as nonneutral and culturally embedded productions which attempt to convey knowledge of foreign spaces to home spaces, this thesis will analyze the ways in which various museum institutions in Russia and Japan, as well as those produced by Ainu activist groups, choose to tell certain stories about the disputed Kuril Island territories and the Ainu people, and to map those stories within the broader colonial framework of the Kuril Islands dispute and indigenous …

Skeletons In The Soviet Closet: The Last Tsar And His Family In The Early Soviet Era, 1918-1937, Olivia Chap

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

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Competing For The Motherland: Sports Spectacle And Nationalism During The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Tara Law

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

The Russian state guided the extended narration of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, and hence the reproduction of the Russian nation in the months preceding the spectacle. The Sochi Olympics proffered a vision of Russian national identity before a global mass audience, but also to the Russian nation itself. The Olympics courted the gaze of the Russian national audience, drawing its attention to the accomplishments of individual Russians. The image of Russia constructed during the Games was of a robust, modern nation guided by a strong state under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin. Combining athletic and artistic elements, …

Gender In The Everyday Life Of The Russian Home, Jyoti Arvey

Slavic Studies Honors Papers

Despite significant shifts in Russia’s social and political spheres since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, traditional gender norms within the domestic sphere have remained generally constant to the present day. The home is a crucial site of gender identity construction due to its importance in Russian culture as a space that has long functioned as a refuge from public life and official discourse. Based on ethnographic interviews with twenty residents of Ufa about their daily practices in the domestic sphere, this study aims to illuminate the domestic social structures within the Russian home in order to achieve …

Klassnaya Gazeta No. 6, Petko Ivanov, Nadiya Hafizova, Bo Martin, Leland Sidle, Val Svystun, Katherine Theiss, Kenan Wan, Gabby Wang

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

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Klassnaya Gazeta No. 5, Petko Ivanov, Jyoti Arvey, Kayla Cogle, Nadiya Hafizova, Tara Law, William Martinsky, Leland Sidle, Gabby Wang

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

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Klassnaya Gazeta No. 4, Petko Ivanov, Jyoti Arvey, Kayla Cogle, Clayton Hillyer, Tara Law, William Martinsky, Leland Sidle, Gabby Wang

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

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Klassnaya Gazeta No. 3, Petko Ivanov, Jyoti Arvey, Dagna Bilsky, Kayla Cogle, Ivan Ivanich, Tara Law, William Martinsky, Leland Sidle, Gabby Wang

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

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Klassnaya Gazeta No. 2, Petko Ivanov, Jyoti Arvey, Dagna Bilsky, Kayla Cogle, Ivan Ivanich, Tara Law, William Martinsky, Leland Sidle, Gabby Wang

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

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Klassnaya Gazeta No. 1, Petko Ivanov, Jyoti Arvey, Dagna Bilsky, Kayla Cogle, Clayton Hillyer, Ivan Ivanich, Tara Law, William Martinsky, Leland Sidle, Gabby Wang

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

No abstract provided.

(Review) Polish Literature From 1918 To 2000: An Anthology, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

The article reviews the book "Polish Literature From 1918 to 2000: An Anthology," edited and translated by Michael J. Mikoś.

(Review) Polish Literature From 1864 To 1918: Realism And Young Poland, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

The article reviews the book "Polish Literature From 1864 to 1918: Realism and Young Poland: An Anthology," edited and translated by Michael J. Mikoṡ.

(Review) Miedzy Psem A Wilkiem, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

Reviews the book "Miedzy psem a wilkiem," by Sasha Sokolov and translated by Aleksander Boguslawski.

(Review) Alienated Women: A Study On Polish Women's Fiction, 1848-1918, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

Reviewed work(s): Alienated Women: A Study on Polish Women's Fiction, 1848-1918 by Grażyna Borkowska

(Review) The Familiar Letter As A Literary Genre In The Age Of Pushkin, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

Reviews the book 'The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin,' by William Mills Todd III.

Canonizing The Wieszcz: The Subjective Turn In Polish Literary Biography In The 1860s, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

Part of a forum on the work of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. The writer examines the radical change in the presentation of poets' biographies in Polish textbooks of literature during the 1860s. She contends that this change coincided with the stabilization of a Polish romantic literary canon and involved, among other things, the subject's personal life, contributions to the national cause, and subjective experiences and feelings. This subjective turn in literary biography demonstrates the relationship between canon building and nation building, she argues, in the respect that it served to unite millions of people living under different political systems. Moreover, …

(Review) Olesha's Envy, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

Reviewed work(s): Olesha's Envy: A Critical Companion by Rimgaila Salys

(Review) Rewriting Capitalism: Literature And The Market In Late Tsarist Russia And The Kingdom Of Poland, Andrea Lanoux

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

Reviewed work(s): Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland by Beth Holmgren

Balkan Slavic Literatures: Reading List And Bibliography, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Predictability And Artistic Freedom In Bilovský'S Homiletic Writings, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Controversial Saints: Representations Of Cyril And Methodius In Modern Slavic History: Chronology And Theses, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Death Of Władysław Warneńczyk As Literary Fact: Review Of Primary And Secondary Sources, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Aleko Konstantinov: An Intellectual Profile, Petko Ivanov, Valentina Izmirlieva

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

'The Light-House Keeper' By Henryk Sienkiewicz: An Interpretation, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.