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Yesterday at Jordan Center MA and Undergraduate Research Symposia. Join us today at 19 University Place, Room 102!

Yesterday on the blog, Javadbay Khalilzade: “In post-Soviet Azerbaijan, the state has moved from religious neglect to active management of faith communities, balancing control over foreign influence with promotion of “traditional” religious expression.” shorturl.at/HcXQX

Today on the blog, William D. Prigge and Marius Tăríţă: “Khrushchev’s quiet attempts at replacing the older generation of Party leaders played out differently in two Soviet republics on the USSR's western borderlands.” shorturl.at/1uCTm

Join us for the 2025 Annual North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (NESEEES) Conference! It will take place on Saturday, April 5, at NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (19 University Place, 2nd Floor, NY, NY). More info: jordanrussiacenter.org/events/2025-ne…

On April 1 on the blog, Anton Shirikov et al.: “Formerly communist countries have undergone such dramatic transformations since 1991 that it's unclear if ‘post-communism’ remains a meaningful analytical category.” shorturl.at/8Bolx

Today on the blog, Alevtina Tsvetkova and Natalie Kononenko: “Folklore adapts to lived circumstances and living folk traditions are different from those of the past precisely because they are alive and suit their circumstances.” shorturl.at/pS7cT

Today on the blog, Stylianos A. Sotiriou: “ When it comes to Rare Earth Elements, China dominates the global supply, with Russia holding a strategic, though still secondary, niche.” shorturl.at/Uy88U

Today on the blog, Tomislav Z. Longinović: “Through four case studies from the former Yugoslavia and its cultural legacy, I interrogate both canonical and marginal forms of the ethnopornographic imaginary.” shorturl.at/OIHwn

The Jordan Center is now accepting entries for our 5th Annual Grad Student Essay Competition! Win up to $500 and get published on our blog. Open to all MA/PhD students in the U.S. Deadline: April 18, 2025. More info: jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/the-fifth…

Today on the blog, Stefan B. Kirmse: “In March 1879, in the Georgian city of Kutaisi, then part of the Russian Empire, nine Jewish men stood trial for allegedly killing a Christian child.” shorturl.at/VqZFH

Today on the blog, Stefan B. Kirmse: “When the Jewish defendants in the 1879 Kutaisi trial were finally acquitted, the judges’ decision was met with sustained applause in the courtroom.” shorturl.at/vWOpW

Today on the blog, Valery Dzutsati and Dinara Rakhmatullayeva: “In Central Asia, more Internet content creation—e.g., posting and blogging—is associated with higher trust in the government and a higher likelihood of election participation.” shorturl.at/yZWdl

Today on the blog, Dijana Mitrović: “Since November 2024, massive student-led protests against government corruption have roiled Serbia, inspiring a nationwide movement demanding systemic change.” shorturl.at/IIiMO

Yesterday on the blog, David Brandenberger: “The Stalin-era Short History of the USSR subordinated both its critique and endorsement of empire to the celebration of state-building on either side of the revolutionary divide.” shorturl.at/TwM5L

Today on the blog, Morena Skalamera: “Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are at the forefront of regional efforts in renewable energy investment, while also being the largest oil and gas-producing nations of Central Asia.” shorturl.at/7klnW

Today on the blog, Emily Wang: “Some of Pushkin’s contemporaries associated Russian serfdom with American slavery—and hence, the poet’s youthful liberalism with his African ancestry.” shorturl.at/vCZKQ

Read the new article by our postdoc fellow James A. Nealey published with the Contemporary European History on the efforts to improve socioeconomic conditions in the USSR during the late 20 century: "The Shchekino Method" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Today on the blog, Tyler Kirk: “The Putin regime sees the archives Gulag survivors and their children have built as a threat because they lay bare Soviet crimes, juxtaposing these with the state-sponsored cult of the ‘Great Patriotic War.’” shorturl.at/N0Rsp

Today on the blog, Alexander Libman: “Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its surprisingly strong economy has enabled the government to continuously replenish its military forces without implementing unpopular mass mobilization.” shorturl.at/6zT8u

Today on the blog, Leora Eisenberg: “My study of some 120 WWII-era Jewish evacuees to Uzbekistan sought to learn whether their experiences could be framed as a success of the Soviet doctrine of ‘friendship of the peoples.’” shorturl.at/vcKez