Open Research Laboratory and Summer Research Laboratory alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Find below the 2023 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs:

 

Barbara Allen

Allen, Barbara. 2023. “Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution, edited by Geoffrey Swain et al., 139-153. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

 

Lyudmila Boltenko Austin

Austin, Lyudmila B. 2023. “As the Forest is Chopped, the Chips Fly: The Fall of Soviet Internationalism and Late Perestroika's “Refugee” Problem, 1988–1990.” Slavic Review 82 (2): 423-446. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.167

 

Roann Barris

Barris, Roann. 2023. Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art. New York: Routledge.

 

Dmitry Biriukov

Biriukov, Dmitry. 2023. “The specifics of the Palamite doctrine, its origins, and latest reception.” Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 6 (1): 79-102.

Biriukov Dmitry. 2023. “The Name-glorifying projects of Alexei Losev and Pavel Florensky: A question of their historical interrelation.” Studies in East European Thought. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-023-09555-9

Biriukov, Dmitry, and Artyom Gravin. 2023. “Palamism, Humboldtianism, and Magicism in Pavel Florensky’s Philosophy of Language”, Religions 14 (2): 197.  https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020197

 

Elizabeth Bishop

Bishop, Elizabeth. 2023. "The Great Industrial Project: Space, Sovereignty, and Production Cultures at Egypt's Aswan High Dam." In Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War, edited by Kristin Roth-Ry, 59-76. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Bishop, Elizabeth. 2023. “Wartime Schism in the Iraqi Communist Party: A Coded Letter to Moscow (1944).” In Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History, edited by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin, 188-193. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bishop, Elizabeth. 2023. “Arabs at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students: UGEMA in the USSR, 1957.” The Maghreb Review 48 (4): 424-442. https://doi.org/10.1353/tmr.2023.a911142

 

Rosalind P. Blakesley

Blakesley, Rosalind P. 2023. Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great. London: Lund Humphries.

Blakesley, Rosalind P. 2023. "Disrupting the Peredvizhniki: the Modernist Salvo of Elena Polenova and Emily Shanks." In A Blue Brick : Festschrift in Honour of John E. Bowlt/Sinij kirpich : Sbornik v chest' Dzhona Eh. Boulta, edited by Yuri Leving, 40-51. Frankfurt-na-Majne: Esterum.

 

Timothy Blauvelt

Blauvelt, Timothy, and Davit Jishkariani. 2023. “Deciphering the Stalinist Perpetrators: The Case of NKVD Investigators Khazan, Savitskii and Krimian.” In The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations, edited by Michael David-Fox, 152-185. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Sara J. Brinegar

Brinegar, Sara J. 2023. Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29. London: Bloomsbury.

 

Dovile Budryte

Budryte, Dovile. 2023. “‘A Decolonizing Moment of Sorts’: The Baltic States’ Vicarious Identification with Ukraine and Related Domestic and Foreign Policy Developments.” Central European Journal for International and Security Studies 17 (4): 82-105. https://doi.org/10.51870/YPIJ8030.

 

Nikolaos Chrissidis

Chrissidis, Nikolaos. "The Cassock Does Not a Monk Make. Or Does It? Fake and Real Monks from the Orthodox East in the Russian Empire (19th -Early 20th Сentury)” [Казак — не монах. Но так ли это? Мнимые и настоящие монахи с Православного Востока в Российской империи (XIXXX вв.)]. Istoriya/История 14 (3): 125. https://doi.org/10.18254/S207987840025202-1

 

Cassio de Oliveira

de Oliveira, Cassio. 2023. “Mark Twain on the Soviet Silver Screen: Stalinist Laughter and Anti-Racism in 'Tom Soier' (1936).” Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14 (2): 29-49. https://doi.org/10.5070/T814260958.

 

Benedict DeDominicis

DeDominicis, Benedict. 2023. “US, China and the Russo-Ukraine War: The Conditions for Generating a Mutually Perceived Hurting Stalemate and Consequent Ceasefire in Moscow and Kyiv.” International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology, 11 (4): 177-191. https://doi.org/10.17703/IJACT.2023.11.4.177

DeDominicis, Benedict. 2023. “The Failure of the Twentieth Century European Perpetual Peace Project: The Social Construction of the West Via Opposition to Russia.” Global Journal of Business Research, 17 (1): 55-91. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4707270

DeDominicis, Benedict. 2023. “The Social Identity Dynamics of the Europeanization of Bulgaria: Reconstructing Gramscian Hegemony in a Post-Neocolonial Balkan Nation-State.” International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, 16 (1): 49-88. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4707296.

 

Sylvain Dufraisse

Dufraisse, Sylvain. 2023. Une histoire sportive de la Guerre froide [A sports history of the Cold War]. Paris: Nouveau monde éditions.

Dufraisse, Sylvain. 2023. "Franchir la frontière de l’URSS et ne pas revenir. Les conditions de la politisation des défections d’athlètes" [Crossing the border of the USSR and not returning. The conditions of the politicization of athlete defections]. Relations internationales, 195 (3): 85-98. https://doi.org/10.3917/ri.195.0085

Dufraisse, Sylvain. 2023. "La supériorité sportive féminine soviétique, un enjeu de guerre froide" [The superiority of Soviet female athletes, a challenge of the Cold War]. Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, 57 (1): 113-131. https://www.cairn.info/revue-clio-femmes-genre-histoire-2023-1-page-113.htm?contenu=article

 

Boris Gorshkov

Gorshkov, Boris. 2023. The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children’s Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

 

Tomasz Grusiecki

Grusiecki, Tomasz. 2023. Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Grusiecki, Tomasz. 2023. "Rethinking the So-Called Polish Carpets." Journal of Art Historiography, 28: 1–16.  https://doi.org/10.48352/uobxjah.00004266.  

Grusiecki, Tomasz. 2023. "Sarmatia Revisited: Maps and the Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth." In Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, edited by Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis, 113–135. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

Maria Hristova

Hristova, Maria. 2023. “Post-Soviet Filmic Depictions of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Tests” in Energy/Waste: Approaches to the Environment in Contemporary Post-Soviet Cultures, edited by Maria Hristova, Alyssa DeBlasio, and Irina Anisimova, 65-90. Bergen: Slavica Bergensia. https://doi.org/10.15845/slavberg.21.c132

 

Irina Ivliyeva

Ivliyeva, I. V. 2023. "Принципы лексикографического описания терминологии словообразовательного синтеза  (на материале глаголов звучания русского языка)” [Principles of lexicographic  description for word formation synthesis terminology (on the material of verbs of sound in the Russian language)].  Интерактивная наука/Interactive Science, 6 (82): 7-15. https://doi.org/10.21661/r-560185.

 

Agnès Kefeli

Kefeli, Agnès. 2023. "In the Land of Giants: Eco-Mythology and Islamic Authority in the Post-Soviet Tatar Imagination." Slavic Review 82 (1): 137-158. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.97

Kefeli, Agnès. 2023. "New-Age Islam in Russia Enchantment and Alternative Healing among the Volga Tatars." Geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger 157/158: 137-168. https://doi.org/10.1553/anzeiger157-1s137

 

Elitza Kotzeva

Kotzeva, Elitza, Sona Gevorgyan, Nairy Bzdigian, Lilit Khachatryan. 2023. “Rhetorical Resilience and Righteous Discontent in Eurasia: Female Students Leading the Way.” Peitho 26 (1).

 

Melissa L. Miller

Miller, Melissa L. 2023. “Sex.” In Chekhov in Context, edited by Yuri Corrigan, 71-77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

Miller, Melissa L. 2023. “Learned Neighbors and Hypnotic Seances: On Chekhov’s Darwinist Parodies.” In Reading Darwin in Imperial Russia: Literature and Ideas, edited by Andrew M. Drozd, Brendan G. Mooney, and Stephen M. Woodburn, 257-278. Boston: Lexington Books.

 

Arkadiusz Mironko

Mironko, Arkadiusz. 2023. "Unici I prawosławni na emigracji w Stanach Zjednoczonych" [Uniates and the Orthodox in Exile in the United States], in Unia Brzeska: Zwodnicza iluzja zjednoczenia chrześcijan Wschodu i Zachodu [The Union of Brest: the Deceptive Illusion of Uniting Christians of the East and West], edited by Abel Popławski and Jerzy Pańkowski, 211-219. Warszawa: ChAT Wydswnictwo Naukowe. https://chat.edu.pl/app/uploads/2024/02/unia_brzeska_final.pdf

 

Erika Monahan
Monahan, Erika, and Matthew P. Romaniello. 2022. "Early Modern Trade in the Caspian Sea Region." Russian Studies in History 60 (1–4, 1–7): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2022.2117467

Monahan, Erika. 2023. “What did Müller Know? Remezov’s Maps and the ‘Father of Siberian History.’” in Muscovy and the World: An Empire in Search of Limits, edited by Michael S. Flier, Nancy S. Kollmann, Daniel Rowland, and Erika Monahan, 147-176. Bloomington, IN: Slavica.

Monahan, Erika. 2023. “Tents or Towns: The Limits of Sovereignty in the Russian North in the Seventeenth Century.” in Picturing Imperial Russia, edited by Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov and Joan Neuberger, 84-92. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Mark Eliot Nuckols

Nuckols, Mark Eliot. 2023. Travels with Ferdinand and Friends: A Centennial Journey through Austria-Hungary. Philadelphia: Hidden River Press.

 

Timothy Pogačar

Pogačar, Timothy. 2023. “Literary Translations Foster an Educated Immigrant Community: The Newspaper Prosveta and Czech-American Comparisons.” Dve domovini / Two Homelands 57: 91–108. https://doi.org/10.3986/dd.2023.1.05

 

Sean Pollock

Pollock, Sean. 2023. “‘The Duty of Perfect Obedience’: The Laws of Subjecthood in Tsarist Russia.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 24: 753-790. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2023.a910976.

 

Andriy Posunko

Posunko, Andriy. 2023. “Chapter 2: The Projects of Cossack Reform in the Russian Empire (1810s-1840s): Unification versus Flexibility” in Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes: Studies in Interdisciplinary and Comparative History of Russia and Eastern Europe, edited by Andrei Cusco and Victor Taki, 47-75. Budapest: Central European University Press.

 

Sabrina Petra Ramet

Ramet, Sabrina P. 2023. East Central Europe and Communism : Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991. Abingdon (UK): Routledge.

 

Danko Šipka

Šipka, Danko. 2023. Water, Whiskey, and Vodka: A Story of Slavic Languages. Georgetown (US): Georgetown University Press.

 

Susan Smith-Peter

Smith-Peter, Susan. 2023. “Pozharskii’s Grave and the Search for the Russian Nation in the Nineteenth Century,” Slavic Review 82 (1): 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.96.

 

Nicole Svobodny

Svobodny, Nicole. 2023. Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, the Writer Dances.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

 

Sergei Zhuk

Zhuk, Sergei. 2023. “'Academic Imperialism:' Writing Soviet and Post-Soviet History without Ukraine,” in Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship: Bias and Prejudice in Journalistic, Expert, and Academic Analyses of East European and Eurasian Affairs, edited by Taras Kuzio, 61-85. New York: Columbia University Press.

Zhuk, Sergei. 2023. "Спецоперації КДБ, споживання культури й молодіжна культура в Радянській Україні, 1968–1985" [KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption, and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine, 1968–1985]. Україна Модерна [Ukraina Moderna] Подолання минулого [Overcoming the Past] (special issue): 1-15. https://uamoderna.com/backward/spetsoperatsii-kdb-spozhyvannia-kultury-y-molodizhna-kultura-v-radianskiy-ukraini-1968-1985/.