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Crime and Punishment in Today’s Russia

The following piece by  political scientists Gavin Slade (Freie Universitaet Berlin) and Matthew Light (University of Toronto) is reposted from The Monkey Cage . In conjunction with this post, the...

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Brutality and Silence in Slaboshpytskyiy’s The Tribe

In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov comes across his infamous murder weapon, as if fortuitously, gleaming from within a janitor’s darkened woodshed. He uses the axe to fell a gossamer-headed crone and...

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Sergei Antonov presents a history of counterfeiting in Imperial Russia

On February 5, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Sergei Antonov for a colloquium on “Criminal Capitalism in Imperial Russia: Counterfeiters, Merchants, and...

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A Soviet Theory of Broken Windows: Prophylactic Policing and the KGB’s...

The Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field. Participants come from universities across the country and abroad, and work in...

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The Story of Aleksei Balabanov’s Unfinished Film The American and Its...

Two tragedies coupled with a failed attempt at completing the film “The American”, broke the “rhythms and networks of meanings” that flowed through the Aleksei Balabanov's earlier films. The post The...

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