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Khrushchevka: A Historical And Economic Analysis Of Russian Housing, Privatization, And Urban Renewal In Putin’S Russia, Victoria A. Faulkner Jan 2025

Khrushchevka: A Historical And Economic Analysis Of Russian Housing, Privatization, And Urban Renewal In Putin’S Russia, Victoria A. Faulkner

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The Moscow Urban Renewal Initiative (Инициатива обновления городов Москвы, 2017-) is the joint project of President Vladimir Putin (1999-2008, 2012-) and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin (2010-) to remove dilapidated housing structures in Moscow. Since 2017, the programme has already displaced about 20,000 Muscovites, with plans to displace 1.5 million more by its completion goal of 2032. These displacements have revealed significant economic deficiencies in the post-Soviet market economy of the Russian Federation. Delays in the programme due to the COVID-19 pandemic have only escalated issues further – as has the War on Ukraine. Understanding the importance of the Moscow Urban …


Rider Of The Black Horse, Theodore Schenck Jan 2024

Rider Of The Black Horse, Theodore Schenck

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This article explores the actions and ideology of the Russian revolutionary and terrorist Boris Savinkov through his final novel, The Black Horse. I argue that the book represents its author's attempt to come to terms with a world in which he feels politically homeless with the victory of his enemy, the Bolsheviks. Savinkov reckons with his fate through the liberal use of Biblical allusions and apocalyptic imagery.


Soviet Commemoration And Myth-Making Of The Nazi Extermination Camps: Case Studies On Treblinka, Sobibór, And Majdanek, Isaac Bluestein Jan 2023

Soviet Commemoration And Myth-Making Of The Nazi Extermination Camps: Case Studies On Treblinka, Sobibór, And Majdanek, Isaac Bluestein

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The Nazi extermination camps of Treblinka, Sobibór, and Majdanek, all located in Eastern Europe, are understudied, underdiscussed, and undermemorialized in public and scholarly memory. In this paper, I seek to conduct case studies of these three camps, their histories, and their commemoration efforts. Ultimately, four main factors prevented these camps from achieving the solemn recognizability they deserve and from having their victims’ stories adequately told; little remains of these camps compared to concentration camps in Germany, fewer individuals survived them to emphasize their importance, the Soviet Union possessed near complete control of their study and commemoration, which allowed for them …


Notes On Translation In The Slavic Field In The Last Twenty Years, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jul 2020

Notes On Translation In The Slavic Field In The Last Twenty Years, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Reactor Room: An Immersive Chernobyl Exhibition, José Vergara Apr 2020

The Reactor Room: An Immersive Chernobyl Exhibition, José Vergara

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

The Reactor Room: An Immersive Chernobyl Exhibition is a digital installation featuring the work of students in Professor José Vergara’s course Chernobyl: Nuclear Narratives and the Environment (Spring 2020) at Swarthmore College. Students designed this interactive exhibition to facilitate public engagement with the catastrophe. Students researched topics of their own choosing and produced outward-facing digital projects that investigate diverse aspects of Chernobyl’s cultural, environmental, social, and political consequences: maps that visually trace the radioactive fallout; biographies of key figures who experienced, survived, and perpetrated one of the worst nuclear disasters in history; audio-based works that engage with the sounds, silences, …


Chernobyl: Nuclear Narratives And The Environment (Russ/Litr 43) Syllabus, José Vergara Apr 2020

Chernobyl: Nuclear Narratives And The Environment (Russ/Litr 43) Syllabus, José Vergara

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

What really happened on April 26, 1986? This course will introduce students to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, its consequences, and its representations across a range of cultures. Texts will be drawn from (non-)fiction, poetry, film, TV, video games, VR, and other media, as we consider the labyrinth of Chernobyl's mythology through a comparative lens and as a global phenomenon. Culture meets ecology, science, history, and politics. Fields trips and guest speakers. The final class project will involve an installation at McCabe Library.


Review Of "State Of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, And Dissent After Stalin" By R. Reich, José Vergara Jan 2020

Review Of "State Of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, And Dissent After Stalin" By R. Reich, José Vergara

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Embodied Language Of Sasha Sokolov's "A School For Fools", José Vergara Jul 2019

The Embodied Language Of Sasha Sokolov's "A School For Fools", José Vergara

Russian Faculty Works

The present article investigates the tension between speech/thought and writing present in Sasha Sokolov's first novel, Shkola dlia durakov (A School for Fools). It maintains that the critical tendency to view the hero's narrative as an unstructured, unnatural speech or thought act tends to exaggerate its deviancy and obscures its peculiar status as a frenzied transcription of his ideas. As the first half of the article demonstrates, Sokolov uses visual markers inherent to a written text alone, along with readerly habits, to craft his tale about thought materializing on the page in concrete form. Furthermore, Sokolov deploys related body imagery …


Review Of "What We Saw From This Mountain: Selected Poems 1976-2014" By V. Aristov, Translated By J. Trubikhina-Kunina And B. Hulick, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jan 2018

Review Of "What We Saw From This Mountain: Selected Poems 1976-2014" By V. Aristov, Translated By J. Trubikhina-Kunina And B. Hulick, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Naming The Future In Translations Of Russian And East European Science Fiction, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jan 2018

Naming The Future In Translations Of Russian And East European Science Fiction, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


“Reader, Have You Not Heard?”: On “Writings From The Golden Age Of Russian Poetry”, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Nov 2017

“Reader, Have You Not Heard?”: On “Writings From The Golden Age Of Russian Poetry”, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Cat Painters: An Anthology Of Contemporary Serbian Poetry" Edited By D. D. Obradović And D. Djurić, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Oct 2017

Review Of "Cat Painters: An Anthology Of Contemporary Serbian Poetry" Edited By D. D. Obradović And D. Djurić, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Identifying Impressions Of Baba Yaga: Navigating The Uses Of Attachment And Wonder On Soviet And American Television, M. Armknecht, J. T. Rudy, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Apr 2017

Identifying Impressions Of Baba Yaga: Navigating The Uses Of Attachment And Wonder On Soviet And American Television, M. Armknecht, J. T. Rudy, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

The rise of Baba Yaga on international television provides an excellent case study for analyzing viewing practices associated with identification and allegiance. In analyzing Baba Yaga’s presence on Soviet and American television, we argue that viewing wonder tales leads to deep and lasting identification, attachment, and allegiance. Baba Yaga’s presence and popularity on Russian and American television allows us to explore how forming such deep impressions of a traditional character on television can provide trans-cultural viewers with tools to navigate between imagination and reality, thus helping them to better understand the ambiguities of life, including transnational cultural politics.


Rhetoric, Translation, And The Rhetoric Of Translation, R. S. Valentino, J. Emery, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, T. Kuzmanović Jan 2017

Rhetoric, Translation, And The Rhetoric Of Translation, R. S. Valentino, J. Emery, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, T. Kuzmanović

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of Selected Poems By M. Savka, M. Savka, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, M. Kalyna, B. Pechenyak Jan 2017

Translation Of Selected Poems By M. Savka, M. Savka, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, M. Kalyna, B. Pechenyak

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of Selected Poems By H. Kruk, H. Kruk, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, M. Kalyna, B. Pechenyak Jan 2017

Translation Of Selected Poems By H. Kruk, H. Kruk, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, M. Kalyna, B. Pechenyak

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Excerpt From Novel "The Tale Is Fresh" By I. Grekova, Translated By Sibelan Forrester, I. Grekova, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Apr 2016

Excerpt From Novel "The Tale Is Fresh" By I. Grekova, Translated By Sibelan Forrester, I. Grekova, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Occulted Woman In Russian Silver Age Decadent Poetry, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jan 2016

The Occulted Woman In Russian Silver Age Decadent Poetry, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

The article outlines the cultural context of Russian women who contributed to the development of decadent poetry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most now forgotten or “occulted” (eclipsed, crowded out). Given the importance of gender theories and “feminine” discursive space in the Silver Age, this phenomenon must be examined; it is not just a typical example of women written out of literary history. The article suggests reasons why decadence may have appealed to women as well as why Russian women who adopted a specifically decadent position might not have been taken seriously. It ends by suggesting why …


Review Of "The Modernist Masquerade: Stylizing Life, Literature And Costumes In Russia" By C. Mcquillen, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Oct 2015

Review Of "The Modernist Masquerade: Stylizing Life, Literature And Costumes In Russia" By C. Mcquillen, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of "Conversations In The Realm Of The Dead" By M. Stepanova, M. Stepanova, Sibelan E. S. Forrester , Translator Oct 2015

Translation Of "Conversations In The Realm Of The Dead" By M. Stepanova, M. Stepanova, Sibelan E. S. Forrester , Translator

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts And Contexts, Sibelan E. S. Forrester, M. Kelly Jan 2015

Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts And Contexts, Sibelan E. S. Forrester, M. Kelly

Russian Faculty Works

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation―many of them translated especially …


Review Of "Soviet Heroic Poetry In Context: Folklore Or Fakelore" By M. Ziolkowski, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jan 2015

Review Of "Soviet Heroic Poetry In Context: Folklore Or Fakelore" By M. Ziolkowski, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of Selected Poems By K. Balmont, K. Balmont, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jan 2015

Translation Of Selected Poems By K. Balmont, K. Balmont, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of "The 'Metropol’ Affair" By V. Erofeev, V. Erofeev, Brian R. Johnson , Translator Jan 2014

Translation Of "The 'Metropol’ Affair" By V. Erofeev, V. Erofeev, Brian R. Johnson , Translator

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of "On Prose" By V. Shalamov, V. Shalamov, Brian R. Johnson , Translator Jan 2014

Translation Of "On Prose" By V. Shalamov, V. Shalamov, Brian R. Johnson , Translator

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Retracing Images: Visual Culture After Yugoslavia" Edited By D. Šuber And S. Karamanić, Sibelan E.S. Forrester Jul 2013

Review Of "Retracing Images: Visual Culture After Yugoslavia" Edited By D. Šuber And S. Karamanić, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Introduction: From "Nauchnaia Fantastika" To Post-Soviet Dystopia, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, Y. Howell Jul 2013

Introduction: From "Nauchnaia Fantastika" To Post-Soviet Dystopia, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, Y. Howell

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Translation Of Selected Poems By M. Stepanova, M. Stepanova, Sibelan E. S. Forrester , Translator Jan 2013

Translation Of Selected Poems By M. Stepanova, M. Stepanova, Sibelan E. S. Forrester , Translator

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Baba’S Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies Of Ukrainian Settlers In Western Canada" By M. Mucz, Sibelan E. S. Forrester Jan 2013

Review Of "Baba’S Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies Of Ukrainian Settlers In Western Canada" By M. Mucz, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Evans's 'The Turducken' And Chekhov's 'The Seagull', Brian R. Johnson Dec 2012

Evans's 'The Turducken' And Chekhov's 'The Seagull', Brian R. Johnson

Russian Faculty Works

In his article "Evans's The Turducken and Chekhov's The Seagull" Brian R. Johnson approaches The Turducken as a travesty of The Seagull, examining six iconic scenes from The Seagull, in order to explore the satirical effect of the altered scenes. In December of 2008, Bedlam Theatre of Minneapolis presented The Turducken, "a holiday dinner theater spectacular inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Seagull." Playwright Josef Evans takes Chekhov's 1895 work and turns the classic piece into a musical and farcical satire. The plot of The Turducken follows the plot of The Seagull, and some scenes in The Turducken are recognizable as …