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June 2019 v. 59, n. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Who’s Laughing Now?: What Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2 Presidential Win May Mean for Ukraine Studies War on the Academy: The Hungarian Government’s 8 Crackdown on Research Freedom

14 2019 Research Grant Recipients

Cohen-Tucker Dissertation 16 Research Fellowship Recipients 21st-Century Approaches to 18 Copyright Law

22 Affiliate Group News

24 Publications

28 Personages

29 In Memoriam

30 Institutional Member News

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William Jay Risch GEORGIA COLLEGE

It was not supposed to happen this way in Ukraine.

Comedian and entertainer Volodymyr Zelensky, a man with no political experience whatsoever, defeated incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, a prominent figure in Ukrainian politics for the past two decades. He won despite Ukraine being five years in a hybrid war with Russia that has cost at least 13,000 lives by late February 2019 and has led to as many as 1.8 million people still being registered as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as of July 2018.1

It was not a defeat. It was a blowout. In the second round of voting held April 21, 2019, Zelensky defeated Poroshenko by an astonishing 73.22 percent to a mere 24.45 percent.2 On the electoral map, Zelensky led in all regions of Ukraine where voting could take place, except for western Ukraine’s Lviv Region.3

Television Crusader

Nationwide television had made Zelensky famous. In 2003 he started his television

NEWSNETJune 2019 2 company, Kvartal 95 (Block 95), candidates for president, Zelensky’s Kolomoisky gave Zelensky not only which has produced television campaign strategy was bizarre. As air time through the 1+1 channel, but programs, films, and live shows for he began his campaign in January also provided security and logistical not just Ukraine, but the post-Soviet 2019, Zelensky, going by the brand support to Zelensky’s campaign sphere and Eastern Europe. Their name of “Ze,” said idea crowdsourcing team. Andriy Bohdan, Kolomoisky’s television comedy show, Vecherniy and popular referendums would personal lawyer, became Zelensky’s Kvartal (Evening Channel), has been determine his political program.6 legal counsel.7 a hit with audiences since 2008. The Zelensky held few live political rallies. television series Svaty (The In-laws), He did not engage in any ambitious Russian president Vladimir Putin which has completed six seasons, had billboard campaign. Instead, he became Zelensky’s second suspected the highest ratings for three of them performed with his comedy team. puppet master, largely through a in Ukraine. In 2012-14, the Monte His campaign team used the social subtle smear campaign. Euromaidan Carlo Television Festival considered networks and YouTube to broadcast Press claimed that Zelensky’s it among the top three comedy campaign messages. The television campaign program bore an eerie series viewed worldwide, next to network hosting Zelensky’s shows, resemblance to that of the Russian The Big Bang Theory and Desperate 1+1, gave Zelensky a venue for Liberal Democratic Party of Vladimir Housewives.4 appearing as a president on Servant of Zhirinovsky. A website known for the People, narrating a documentary intimidating journalists and political The show that gave Zelensky the on the life of Ronald Reagan (another opponents, Myrotvorets’ (Peacemaker) most political clout was the television actor who became a president), and – called simply a “non-governmental series Sluga Naroda (Servant of greeting viewers with the New Year at organization” by some media – the People), which premiered on midnight, during a spot traditionally claimed that it had intercepted emails Ukrainian television in 2015. Servant reserved for the President of Ukraine. proving that a former pro-Russian of the People is about a struggling high Donbas militant, owner of a crypto- school history teacher in provincial Due to his amorphous campaign currency trading platform, had Ukraine who, frustrated with his rhetoric and his past comedy acts, organized the transfer of cash from country’s political system, delivers an Zelensky seemed like a clown, Russia’s FSB to the Zelensky campaign. impromptu speech against corruption someone else’s puppet. One suspected Euromaidan Press reported this news, that a student films in class. The puppet master was Ihor Kolomoisky, while being unable to verify the student’s video goes viral on YouTube a prominent oligarch who supported information completely.8 Yet at least and gets Zelensky’s character, Vasyl the Euromaidan protests and, some suggested, rightly, that this kind Holoborodko, elected president. after Russia’s military intervention, of Russian support was negligible, Servant of the People is about more funded volunteer battalions to given the enormous resources than just a novice president battling defend Ukraine. While this led to Kolomoisky and his 1+1 television corruption. The series portrays him becoming governor of the channel provided.9 ordinary Ukrainian citizens complicit Dnipropetrovsk Region in Ukraine’s in this culture of corruption, from southeast in 2014, his relations with Still, experts warned that Zelensky’s housewives urging their husbands President Poroshenko soured, and victory would doom Ukraine because to accept bribes so that they can buy he was out of office the next year. Putin would take advantage of his fur coats to neighbors who abuse one The owner of 1+1, Privatbank, and lack of political experience. Alexander another yet will go out of their way to other assets, Kolomoisky allegedly Motyl claimed that Servant of the please government ministers.5 embezzled some $5 billion from People episodes suggested Zelensky Privatbank, causing the Poroshenko was “dangerously pro-Russian.” He Zelensky Hysteria administration to nationalize the argued that Zelensky’s show treats bank in 2016. Kolomoisky left Ukrainian nationalists, not Russia, At first it looked like Zelensky had Ukraine and claimed that the forced as the main threat to the country. no chance of winning. Out of 40 nationalization of his bank was illegal. Zelensky, if elected, may make all kinds

NEWSNET June 2019 3 of concessions to Putin, including at all levels of state administration, not students, pensioners, mothers ceding the country’s sovereignty.10 it perpetuated it. A 2018 Gallup on maternity leave, or those disabled Such experts stressed the importance poll found 91 percent of Ukrainians and unable to work) left Ukraine for of Poroshenko winning reelection. claimed government corruption employment abroad.15 The sharp Adrian Karatnycky of the Atlantic was widespread. Ukraine’s national drop in Ukrainians’ living standards, Council said this would protect government was the least trusted in made worse by austerity, has hardly Ukraine from Russian interference the world (9 percent), far below the been the prosperity of the “European running rampant during the median for former Soviet republics dream” shared by Euromaidan elections, and would keep it safe from (48 percent) and the global average activists and their supporters more further Russian military aggression. (56 percent). Even the Yanukovych than five years ago. Quoting Ukrainian historian and administration, overthrown by public intellectual Yaroslav Hrytsak, protests in February 2014, did not Ukraine’s cultural and intellectual Karatnycky concluded that it was have such a low rating, though establishment, while grumbling just a matter of time before Ukraine’s admittedly confidence in thatabout such corruption and educated elite backed Poroshenko government was also extremely weak economic hardships, chose to and thus guaranteed his victory at (no higher than 24 percent).12 Rather side with Poroshenko to the end. the polls: “The main decision for than overcoming the arbitrariness Poroshenko’s presidency reinforced liberals today is whether to support and lawlessness of past regimes, myths they shared and perpetuated Poroshenko in the first round or wait Poroshenko’s encouraged a “culture (sometimes with Western help) until the second.”11 of impunity” where crimes remained about the Euromaidan protests unpunished or uninvestigated, and Ukraine’s war with Russia. The Day of Reckoning security organs detained and Euromaidan protests were about tortured citizens, and far-right a civilizational choice. They were Hrytsak’s liberals did not determine vigilante groups freely intimidated a contest of wills between the the outcome of the presidential race. and assaulted their opponents.13 “tolerant ones” (tolerasty), those Zelensky’s electoral victory was a In late February 2019, investigative who adhered to human rights, rule direct indictment of them and the journalists claimed the son of one of of law, democracy, and European view of Ukraine that they and their Poroshenko’s close business partners values, and the “Soviet ones” (sovky), Western partners shared. extorted millions of dollars from the those who blindly followed their state’s military industries by selling post-Soviet leaders and feared Educated elites most active in the them parts smuggled from Russia at change.16 Marci Shore and Timothy Euromaidan protests of 2013-14 grossly exaggerated prices.14 Snyder have been the most fervent tied that revolution’s fortunes to the Western perpetuators of such Poroshenko presidency. Poroshenko Despite greater openness with the myths. The protests represented a himself played an active role in European Union, including visa- “rebirth of metaphysics” for not just supporting the protests, through free travel, continued economic Ukraine, but Eastern Europe, where his television channel, Channel 5, decline and the Donbas war had the values of Europe acquired real and through his own intervention in ruined people’s standard of living. meaning in acts of resistance on key events that led to the toppling The value of the hryvnia to the US Ukraine’s Independence Square.17 of President Viktor Yanukovych in dollar plummeted from 8 to 27 (as The Ukraine crisis occupied center February 2014. of 2018). In 2015, the average salary stage in a global war for the “truth” of Ukrainians was 190 US dollars a and liberal democracy.18 Such The Poroshenko presidency, despite month (a little over 6 US dollars a day). myths transformed those who attempted reforms, ushered in yet From 2014 to 2017 (before even visa- were indifferent to the Euromaidan another cycle of systemic corruption. free travel with EU countries began), protests, who refused to support the Rather than breaking with a system over 25 percent of all working age, protests, or who openly opposed of bribes, graft, and embezzlement economically active citizens (those them into people who were culturally,

NEWSNET June 2019 4 intellectually, and even spiritually Zelensky in the first round and even lacking. This was especially true for in the second, Ukrainian intellectuals residents of the Donbas region, who, warned that a Zelensky victory according to Hrytsak, were allegedly would be a disaster for Ukraine. too skeptical, too materialist, and too As many as 26 representatives of spiritually deprived to appreciate the Ukrainian intelligentsia–mostly the altruism of the Euromaidan writers, academics, and former protesters.19 Such myths ignored the Soviet dissidents–claimed Zelensky’s fact that the Euromaidan protests election would make a mockery never gained support from half of of Ukraine.25 Western champions the country – mostly residents of of Ukraine and the Euromaidan the east and south – and that the protests joined in the jeremiads violence that eventually brought against a possible Zelensky win. down the Yanukovych regime only Bernard-Henri Lévy, who had spoken polarized public opinion further. to the Maidan in early February 2014 Moscow Patriarchate. Poroshenko Only the threat of Russian military and claimed that the Europe he was later went on a tour across Ukraine aggression ensured national unity.20 proud of stood before him, warned with the document, known as the a Kyiv audience in late March 2019 Tomos, claiming that Ukraine had As it failed to produce reforms that Zelensky was a “leap into the achieved spiritual independence that benefited ordinary citizens, unknown.”26 from the Russian world at last.22 the Poroshenko administration Poroshenko voiced support for a used the threat of Russian military Fear and Loathing of the 25 (Or law strengthening the use of the aggression, and nationalist tropes, Less) Percent Ukrainian language in education to bolster Poroshenko’s reelection and government. Parliament passed bid. “Army, Language, Faith” became The jeremiads did little more than the law shortly after Poroshenko’s his campaign slogan. Poroshenko echo among the faithful. When the electoral defeat.23 guaranteed strong defense against results of the first, and then the Russian military aggression. When second, rounds of voting came in, Ukrainian cultural and intellectual Russian naval forces seized three intellectuals and public figures who figures lined up behind Poroshenko. Ukrainian naval vessels and 24 sailors supported the Euromaidan were At a late January 2019 rally in in November 2018 and closed the furious. They took out their anger the Kyiv International Exposition Sea of Azov off to Ukrainian shipping, against the vast majority who had Center, writers, actors, musicians, Poroshenko with Parliament’s voted for Zelensky. and politicians joined Poroshenko approval temporarily imposed to express their support for his martial law in 10 regions along Volodymyr Viatrovych, director of platform. They claimed that Ukraine’s east and south, claiming the Ukrainian Institute of National Zelensky, former Prime Minister that Russian forces threatened to Memory, whose work included the Yulia Tymoshenko, and other rival seize those territories as well. The passing of controversial laws in candidates threatened to undermine move was viewed as politically 2015 banning Communist symbols Ukraine with empty populist rhetoric, motivated, given that nearly all of and commemorating controversial authoritarianism, and a return to the these regions were least supportive nationalist figures who had days of Yanukovych’s “pro-Russian” of Poroshenko’s presidency.21 In collaborated with Nazi Germany, regime. The rally offered an even early January 2019, the Poroshenko highlighted the dangers of “the more stark slogan on display: “Either administration succeeded in majority” to his readers on Facebook Poroshenko or Putin,” with portraits obtaining independent status for one week before the second round of the two leaders facing one the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, of the elections.27 “The majority does another.24 Once it became clear that removing it from the control of the not read books,” he wrote April 14, Poroshenko was most likely to lose to

NEWSNET June 2019 5 2019. “The majority does not know a members of civil society. Poet, of 55 percent, could not answer the single foreign language. The majority critic, and essayist Mykola Riabchuk question, while 31 percent blamed has not seen the world not just claimed that Zelensky’s presidency Ukraine and only 14.5 percent said beyond Ukraine, but even beyond would be such a disaster that those Russia was responsible for starting their own televisions. The majority supporting a modernized, Ukrainian the war.33 did not come to the Maidans [public future connected with Europe, free of Zelensky’s presidential win thus protests in 2004 and 2013-14], they the influences of the sovky, could win is no laughing matter for either did not stop the ‘Russian Spring’ in the in a future political struggle.31 his opponents or his supporters. south and east, did not fight at the Ukraine remains in dire economic front, did not form volunteer groups There was no soul-searching at all straits. The corrupt system in Servant to help soldiers.” He claimed that “the among the 25 percent or less. One of the People pervades Ukrainian majority” quickly changes its loyalties, exception could be art curator and society and involves ordinary people and that it was “the majority” that former Euromaidan activist Vasyl who, regardless of their individual brought to power such odious figures Cherepanyn. He compared Zelensky’s qualities, matter in any representative as Lenin, Hitler, Putin, and Yanukovych victory to a popular uprising like that of democracy that claims to live by (a claim that clearly went against the the Yellow Vests in France, only within its ideals. Russia remains a military historical record regarding Lenin and the legal system, voting against such threat, though far from all Ukrainians Hitler).28 issues as the war in Donbas (namely agree who is to blame for the war politicians’ exploitation of that war it continues to direct and support The second round of voting coincided to benefit themselves), corruption, in the Donbas region. The gulf with the beginning of Holy Week and the divisive nationalism that between educated elites and “the for the Eastern rite in Ukraine, and Poroshenko had turned to in order majority” bears resemblance to the commentators were quick to add to maintain popular support. Still, Russian Empire of 1905-1917, where, Biblical language to express their as Cherepanyn admitted, what had Leopold Haimson wrote long ago, contempt for the majority. “It is not I united the 73 percent of Ukraine’s dual polarization between educated beating (him), but the mob [iuba] is,” voters behind Zelensky was not elites (obshchestvennost’) and the wrote political scientist Volodymyr voting for Zelensky but voting against state and between educated elites Kulyk, referring to Palm Sunday and something.32 and the masses threatened to topple the fickle crowd that greeted Jesus the entire system.34 While this latest and then betrayed him. “On the While Zelensky’s victory bridged drama in Ukraine’s history could end day of [Christ’s] arrival in Jerusalem regional divides, such divisions remain as comedy, farce, or tragedy, it is they decided to return to Egypt…”29 highly salient for the most important clear that “the people” deserve better Writer Yuri Andrukhovych, who had problems facing Ukraine. One survey treatment than that given to it by already warned readers of Zbruch by the Kyiv International Institute of the pundits, the experts, and some that Zelensky’s victory would mean Sociology indicates that in February scholars over the past five years. the return to power of a more subtle 2019, around 62-65 percent of version of Yanukovych’s Party of residents of Ukraine’s west and center Regions, compared Poroshenko’s said that Russia bore responsibility for William Jay Risch, Associate Professor resounding defeat to Jesus Christ’s starting the war in Donbas, 10-12.5 of History, Georgia College, is the betrayal by the mob on Good Friday.30 percent said Ukraine was responsible, author of The Ukrainian West: Culture and 25 percent could not answer the and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv Other intellectuals opposed to question. In contrast, in Ukraine’s (Harvard University Press, 2011) and Zelensky looked for signs of victory south, as many as 47 percent could of the forthcoming One Step from amid defeat. Facebook users not answer the question, while 23 Madness: Power and Disillusionment in affixed the number “25” to their percent blamed Ukraine and only Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution. profile photos, proudly identifying 30 percent blamed Russia. In the themselves as critically-reflectingeast, the contrast with the west and center was even starker. Most, a total

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WAR ON THE ACADEMY: The Hungarian Government’s Crackdown on Research Freedom

Stefano Bottoni HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES For years now, the nationalist-conservative Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán has pursued a repressive grip on higher education, with the ultimate goal of exercising political control over research. Since 2014, a chancellor has supervised public universities. This position is only superficially similar to that of the administrative director. In fact, the chancellor - usually a scholar linked to the governing party - oversees expenditure, recruitment, and the general internal life of the university. This authority has paved the way for attacks against the Central European University (CEU). An amendment to the higher education law issued in March 2017 forced foreign universities operating in Hungary to open a campus also in their country of origin. Founded by businessman George Soros in 1991, the CEU suddenly found itself in a legal limbo as an institution considered politically insidious. In December 2018, after a year and a half of futile negotiations with the Hungarian government, CEU President Michael Ignatieff announced the transfer of all graduate programs accredited in the United States from Budapest to Vienna, effective Fall 2019. Until recently, the oldest and most prestigious Hungarian research institution, the Academy of Sciences, seemed safe because it is a national establishment. The Academy, which boasts over 400 academics and 5,000 employees, including 2,500 full-time researchers

NEWSNET June 2019 8 in 15 centers. Besides this, 16,000 and academic research. In the early persons in possession of a doctorate 1950s, the Academy became, on the or equivalent degree participate in structural level, a complex multi-level the consultative body that regulates organization (academics-researchers- Hungarian scientific life. Having members of consultative body) labored for years under the illusion of subject to strict ideological control. The being a national symbol rooted in the Academy and its research institutes social fabric and national history of carved out a niche of freedom in the Hungary, they too have now become “soft” but enveloping dictatorship of a target like the CEU. the 1970s and 1980s. The institutes of philosophy, history, sociology, and This rude awakening began during world economy employed dozens of the electoral campaign that led to internationally renowned scholars the third consecutive triumph of who, though barred from teaching in Prime Minister Orbán on April 8, universities, were allowed to conduct 2018. In January the weekly Figyelő Történetét Kutató Intézet), researches their own research and publish in (“The Observer”), owned at that the transition of 1989-90. These obscure journals. time by prominent Fidesz-ideologue institutions, instrumental to political and historian Mária Schmidt, began power and generously financed by The entry of the Soros Foundation in to publish defamatory articles the state budget, have been joined Hungary, allowed by the authorities that listed individual researchers over the years by various think through a memorandum of or entire research institutes as tanks in fields such as economics, understanding with the Hungarian politically hostile, useless, or even geopolitics and migration, including Academy of Sciences signed in “harmful” to society. Meanwhile, the the government-backed (fin de siècle) 1984, marked the end of the public government developed a network Századvég Foundation—a powerful monopoly of the Communist state of research institutes, parallel to machine of policy-making and on research funding and scientific those of the Academy, particularly propaganda that moves hundreds of publications. In the following ten in the humanities. For instance, the millions of euros. years, the Foundation sent 50 million “Veritas” historical institute (founded dollars to Hungary. In addition to in 2014) is a government entity that The Hungarian Academy of Sciences funding hundreds of economists, employs around thirty researchers was founded in 1825 on the initiative sociologists, and writers, it distributed engaged in the period between the of Count István Széchenyi to promote 475 photocopiers to universities creation of the Dual Monarchy in 1867 the Hungarian language and culture. and research centers throughout and the end of the Second World Until the Second World War, this Hungary. The state authorities War. In the same year, the National body functioned as an exclusive club retained influence over the recipients Memory Commission (Nemzeti for established scholars and in the of scholarships and research projects Emlékezet Bizottság) was established interwar period openly supported granted in heavy currency, but, thanks to promote an official narrative and the ultra-conservative orientation to the Soros Foundation, the Academy research agenda for the period 1945- of the governments appointed by of Sciences carved out a space of 1990. The committee is made up Admiral Horthy, excluding scholars autonomy previously unthinkable. of five members, strictly politically of Jewish origin. In 1948-49, the nominated, supervising a scientific Sovietization of the country made After the post-Communist transition, body of about twenty researchers. a radical change to the “parlor” of the Academy chose the path of a Another institute commissioned by Hungarian science. The purge of gradual renewal, eschewing purges the government in 2014, Research intellectuals was accompanied by a or abjurations of the Communist Institute and Archives for the History rigid separation of roles, on the Soviet past. A law approved in 1994 secured of Regime Change (Rendszerváltás model, between higher education freedom of public research through

NEWSNET June 2019 9 the Academy’s full managerial and stands out among the countries of the minister did not show up, financial autonomy. Under theCentral-Eastern Europe with 69 ERC probably for fear of a confrontation, chairmanship of two historians, and Horizon-2020 grants (compared and the academics, wounded in the conservative Domokos Kosáry to 29 in the Czech Republic and 27 in their professional and corporate and the socialist Ferenc Glatz, the Poland), 32 of which were won by the pride, approved by a large majority a Academy struggled, not without Academy’s institutes. resolution that committed President success, to harmonize its traditional Lovász to reject the reform plan and Not surprisingly, the first battle “national” profile with the challenges ask the government to respect the between the Academy and the of technological change and the autonomy of the Academy. Irritated Ministry of Innovation and Technology globalization of knowledge. In by the unexpected resistance of a was fought in the summer of 2018 2011-12, a comprehensive reform traditionally staid body, Palkovics over management autonomy. In consolidated the network of research opted for direct retaliation. June, Palkovics proposed a technical institutes into 15 administrative and amendment aimed at diverting more Since January 2019, the Ministry of scientific macro-units, the research than two thirds of the Academy’s Innovation and Technology holds centers. The one for humanities, for annual funding to the Ministry’s “temporarily” (until March 31, the example, brought together seven budget. The real objective of this last term of the “general assessment” previously independent institutes move was very clear: to transfer funds of academic efficiency) the sums (including that of history) and for basic and applied research to the previously allocated in the budget law today employs 440 researchers and Ministry in order to obtain full financial to the institutions. The Academy can administrative staff members. Over control over the Academy’s research therefore provide only the basic salary the years, the weight of external network. These logistical and financial of researchers and the administrative funding has progressively grown premises were eventually used by staff. A month and a half after the to approximately one third of the Palkovics to achieve the suppression of introduction of this punitive measure, budget of the research institutes. the Academy’s autonomy, which also numerous laboratory activities have Despite these changes, the Minister led to the humiliation of its president, been suspended, the editorial projects of Innovation and Technology, the the world-famous mathematician of 2019 have stalled, and applications engineer and academician László László Lovász. The minister has in fact to European funds are impossible Palkovics argues that the public granted the legal department of the due to the uncertainty regarding the research system in Hungary is still Academy just 54 minutes to view and availability of overheads. According to affected by the legacy of the Soviet comment on the bill, approved a few the legal department of the Academy, system. Palkovics believes that the days later without any modification the government is violating not only Academy enjoys excessive “freedom,” despite the protests from President the 1994 law on the functioning while research in the humanities, a Lovász and numerous academics. of the Academy but also its own supposed luxury for a small country of Starting from 2019, the minister budget law. To remedy the problem, modest wealth, should be replaced by would have linked the granting of Minister Palkovics announced on technological innovation in support funds to a “general assessment” of the January 31 a “public tender” in which of industry. functioning of the research network each research center must present carried out in the first months of the a proposal of research activities However, international statistics tell a same year by an equal commission planned until December 31, 2019. All different story: public research carried made up of academics and experts this in 5,500 characters, spaces and out in the institutions of the Academy appointed by the Ministry. financial tables included, by February is among the most productive on the 28, 2019. The Ministry suggested Events took a dramatic turn after continent, if we compare the modest “culture” and “family” macro-sectors the extraordinary meeting of the budget of less than 200 million as research topics for the humanities general assembly, the Academy’s euros per year with indicators such and social sciences. As you can guess, self-governing body, on December as publications or European project the Academy was in fact forced to grants in the last decade. Hungary 6, 2018. Although entitled to attend

NEWSNETJune 2019 10 participate, to earn its own budget, 2019 ASEEES BOARD ELECTION in a scientific farce. Furthermore, the “tender” for the approximately 85 We are pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the 2019 election for million euros available, which is more positions on the ASEEES Board of Directors: Vice President/President-Elect or less equivalent to the “old” budget, and two Members-at-Large, serves three-year terms from January 1, 2020 to is open to other competitors such December 31, 2022. We thank them for their willingness to stand as candidates as universities, public institutions, to serve on the ASEEES Board. but also the previously mentioned alternative think tanks. However, Candidates for Vice President / President Elect unlike the Academy, these other • Sibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College actors have regular financing, while • Irina Shevelenko, Professor in German, Nordic, and Slavic Department at U the Academic research centers are in of Wisconsin - Madison fact private as of January 1, 2019. Candidates for Members-at-Large At the time of writing, the future of the • Michael Kunichika, Associate Professor of Russian; Director of the Center for Academy of Sciences is completely Russian Culture, Amherst College uncertain. The political will to punish • Karen Petrone, Professor of History and Chair of Department of History, U of the academic world, considered Kentucky insufficiently aligned, has stimulated • Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, History Instructor, Lee College • Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Russian, U of Notre Dame an unprecedented bottom-up reaction. The thousands of researchers Candidates for Graduate Student Representative (with an average age of just 41 • Christina Novakov-Ritchey, Teaching Fellow in Dept of World Arts and years) who represent the operating Cultures and Ph.D. candidate in Culture and Performance, UCLA arm, though often forgotten, of the • Mina Magda, PhD candidate in Dept of Slavic Langauges and Literatures, Academy of Sciences, feel betrayed by Yale U their superiors have self-organized, joining the trade unions for the first For more information on the election including the candidate bios, visit our time in decades and forming a civil website. Information on how to vote will be distributed by email to current initiative called the “Academy Staff members of ASEEES by early July. Forum.”

On February 12, 2019, the Forum for the research institutes. In the Financed by a share package with a organized the first protestHungarian press, detailed reports total value of over 1.2 billion euros, demonstration ever carried out on the attempted dismemberment all the real estate and securities by the Academy’s employees in of the current research centers matrimony of the Corvinus University downtown Budapest, attended by have appeared. Rumors circulate of would come together in this over 3,000 people: not only scholars a gigantic public foundation, the foundation. Minister Palkovics has but also ordinary citizens indignant control of which would be entrusted already outlined the unbundling over the insult to the most ancient to the government, that will hijack of the research institutes and their and prestigious national academic the Academy’s research centers. transfer to a new foundation, telling institution. That same day, the The Ministry’s plans include the the president of the Academy Lovász, Academy Bureau, at the end of a transformation, scheduled for July that this is the basic prerequisite for dramatic meeting, decided - despite 1, 2019, of the Corvinus University reaching an agreement on research pressure from the crowd and the of Budapest (formerly “Karl Marx” funding not only for 2019 but also for media - to reject the “thematic University), which specializes in the foreseeable future. tender of excellence” proposed by economic sciences and international Thus, the question of the Academy the Ministry if it illegally withholds relations, into a foundation called has acquired the dynamic of power- public funds already allocated “Maecenas Universitatis Corvini.”

NEWSNET June 2019 11 opposition. The leading bodies of of the independent legal status of competitive entity and guarantees the Academy, without offering acurrent institutions until that date; the implementation of the so-called formal legitimacy to the Workers’ and the retention of public servant “vertical of power” on the crony Forum, received the message of the status of Academy’s staff. Finally, the management of this enormous protest, and on February 26, 2019, the Academy called on the government amount of public money. Presidency of the Academy of Sciences to allow independent international In any case, the most penalized are resolved almost unanimously to partners to take an active part in the already the humanities and social refuse to participate without written development of the new research sciences sectors: not because of guarantees from the Ministry. structure. their (low) cost of management This gesture of dignity further raises The government has rejected these but because they still represent an the stakes as it puts the government demands and seems determined autonomous and critical factor for at a crossroads: opting for a tactical to realize its centralization plans by government policies in fields such retreat, implicitly recognizing the overturning the 1994 Academy Law. as economy, demography, and the foolishness of the project, or The standoff continues, while the politics of the memory. What is at accelerating on the same path to Academy staff has been living and stake in the war launched by the crush the resistance of scholars. The working for almost one year under Hungarian government on its own Academy has the financial resources existential risk. Academy of Sciences is therefore necessary to cover the budget leaks not just the management and The question of the Academy concerns for a few months but no more, and at financial autonomy of the latter. It not only scientific policy, but also the the moment the government intends now concerns the government’s freedom of research and expression. to guarantee the payment of salaries attempt to remove the islands of The fate of research institutes assumes only until March 31, 2019. Thousands autonomy, criticism, and freedom in a national political relevance, while of researchers are therefore at the a country that the recent Freedom the Academy Presidency is flooded mercy of a conflict, now fueled by House report has downgraded, for with declarations of solidarity government propaganda, that the the first time in the EU’s history, from from Hungarian and especially Academy tried to manage in an “free” to “partially free.” Depriving the international partners. accommodating way before realizing Academy of its research institutes is that the government was aiming, not What are the reasons for the tantamount to destroying its social for a compromise, but a total victory. government’s war on the Academy of representation and indispensable Sciences? We can identify two closely function as a source of criticism and On May 6, 2019, the General Assembly related motivations: struggle for political stimulus. of the Academy of Sciences delivered resources and ideological ambition. a series of resolutions stating that the research network should remain The Hungarian government knows Stefano Bottoni is a Senior Research Fellow under the purview of the Academy, that with the next European budget at the Research Center for the Humanities even if the government is delegated Budapest will surely lose a significant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. substantially more power in their part of the development funds He was visiting fellow at the Zentrum für management system than at present. provided by Brussels: an estimated Zeithistorische Forschung (Potsdam, 2012) According to General Assembly’s 6 billion euros between 2021 and and Fellow of Imre Kertész Kolleg (Jena, resolution, the Academy set up 2027. The only significant exception 2015). He is the author of Long Awaited several conditions for agreeing to is the funds allocated to research West: Eastern Europe since 1944 (Indiana the new management system: a start and innovation, several billion University Press, 2017), and Stalin’s Legacy date of January 1, 2020, at the earliest; euros of which will flow into the in Romania: The Hungarian Autonomous the exclusive inclusion of institutions country. The forced detachment of Region 1952-1960 (Lexington Books, currently within the Academy’s research centers from the Academy 2018). research network; the preservation structure eliminates an autonomous

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DISSERTATION RESEARCH attempt to write a history of the archaeology between 1775 and 1857. He begins with FELLOWSHIPS of nomadism in the Russian empire and Catherine II’s attempts to implement the early Soviet Union. Biyashev raises metrological uniformity in order to foster Tyler Adkins new questions about the nature of Russian commercial development, and end with Anthropology, Princeton University imperial modernity and about the ruptures the turn to replace Russian units with “Talkan in the Age of Mechanical and continuities between the late imperial the metric system. He approaches these Reproduction: Making, Working and and early Soviet contexts of studying nomadic reforms as technologies of economy- and Consuming in the Late-Soviet Altai archaeology. His dissertation devotes special state-building enacted during a period Mountains” attention to native and indigenous historical marked by substantial territorial expansion, Adkins’s project seeks to understand actors in Southern Russia, Central Asia, and the Napoleonic Wars, and the renovation the indigenization of late Soviet modes of life Siberia. Additionally, the case studies that of imperial governance. In analyzing in present-day Altai Republic, Russia through he examines call into question the effortless how the non-standardized metrological an oral history of domestic food production transition between the imperial and national, system functioned, he also explores why in rural areas. More specifically, this research thus reevaluating Russia’s trajectory as an an ethos of standardization emerged in project examines the paradox of why imperial power. He considers how multiple these years. Identifying nodes of support the domestic labor of food production— imperial agents and subjects, including for and opposition to the reforms within ostensibly a “survival” of pre-Soviet rural representatives of nomadic cultures under the broader population is a central concern economy— is now remembered by post- Russian imperial rule, self-proclaimed of his project. Through the reactions of Soviet Altai people as an exemplary instance amateur archaeologists, and other actors peasants, merchants, landlords, industrialists, of the virtues of the Soviet way of life. In interpreted and instrumentalized ancient academicians, and bureaucrats he attempts combining oral history with ethnography, nomadic material culture. Lastly, his project to delineate the consolidation of interest this project aims to understand not only the answers the call to interdisciplinarity issued groups along political and economic lines. late-Soviet period but also contemporary, by specialists in both history and archaeology This project is thus at once a study of the post-Soviet Altai and its relation to its Soviet to shed new light on hitherto unexplored state’s plans to mediate commercial relations past: how do Soviet-era ways of living and facets of both disciplines. and of the people who constituted those working now appear as objects of nostalgic relations. desire, rejection or emulation in the creation Geoffrey Durham of post-Soviet Altai selves? History, University of Pennsylvania W. Forrest Holden “The Standards of Evaluation: Weights, History, University of Michigan Ismael Biyashev Measures, and the Politics of Building a “Disciplining Belief: Gender, Superstition, History, University of Illinois at Chicago Russian Imperial Economy, 1775-1857” and Witchcraft Persecution, 1760-1860” “Beyond Myths and Ruins: Archaeology and Durham’s dissertation investigates Holden’s dissertation is a cultural Nomadism in Russia, 1850-1925” the drive to standardize the units of weight history of magic-belief and witchcraft Biyashev’s dissertation is the first and measurement in the Russian Empire persecution in the eighteenth and

NEWSNET June 2019 16 nineteenth centuries. Drawing on trial regarding gender, family, crime, identity, Virginia Olmsted-McGraw records, published divination pamphlets, morality, and more under late socialism. History, UNC at at Chapel Hill and literary representations of magic and Additionally, her project contributes to “Soviet by Design: Fashion, Consumption, witchcraft, it considers the relationship a growing body of work in the history of and International Competition during Late between the Enlightenment notions of sexuality in Russian studies by arguing that Socialism, 1948-1980” individual subjectivity, the decriminalization sexuality was integral to how people shaped Olmsted-McGraw’s dissertation of witchcraft, and the increasing tendency their very identities as Soviet subjects vis-à- examines the evolution of a Soviet fashion to accuse women, rather than men, of vis the Soviet system and state. industry and the primary state institution of practicing magic. Based on these sources, this clothing design, the All-Union House of Design dissertation argues that the Enlightenment DISSERTATION COMPLETION (ODMO). The ODMO could influence every understanding of gender that emerged in FELLOWSHIPS level of production, as its designers not only Western Europe informed the practice of designed clothing, but also advised factory witchcraft persecution on both the part of Nicholas Bujalski managers, decided which clothing went into the state, and on the part of ordinary accusers History, Cornell University mass production, and bore responsibility for in witchcraft cases. “Russia’s Peter and Paul Fortress: From Heart marketing. Designers believed that fashion of Empire to Museum of the Revolution, could unify the Soviet Union on two fronts: at Svetlana Ter-Grigoryan 1825-1930” home, with citizens wearing Soviet-designed History, The Ohio State University Bujalski’s project is a cultural, and manufactured clothing, and abroad, at “There is No Sex in the USSR”: Sex, Soviet intellectual, and spatial history of Russia’s international competitions, as a symbol of Identity, and Glasnost” Peter and Paul Fortress: founding site of the USSR’s artistic and cultural dominance. Ter-Grigoryan’s dissertation argues St. Petersburg, mausoleum of the imperial Olmsted-McGraw studies the ODMO in that Soviet public discourse, scholarly family, and Romanov Russia’s most order to gain a greater understanding of the studies, and cultural representations on and notorious political prison. Here the empire’s artistic and cultural history of the USSR, the about sexuality acted as a site for Soviet most illustrious dissidents – Bakunin, “cultural” Cold War, and the nature of the people to explore and negotiate larger issues Chernyshevsky, Kropotkin, Trotsky – not command economy. Her project draws on around Soviet identity, moral upheaval, only suffered, but also wrote novels and the methodologies of institutional, gender, and rapid reform. Between 1987 and 1991, treatises, planned future political activities, cultural, and transnational history, which Soviet people engaged in literary, cultural, and reimagined what it meant to be a allows me to examine the ODMO’s place medical, and legal debates about the role revolutionary actor in tsarist Russia. As within the Soviet state and economy, the of sex and sexuality in Soviet society. Prior successive dissident generations learned impact of the organization domestically and to glasnost, the official stance of the state to navigate (and narrate) the Fortress internationally, as well as the artistic and was that sex primarily a means to an end: prison cell, this citadel was gradually cultural context influencing design. Her study the conception of future Soviet generations. transformed from a site of autocratic speaks to the limited scholarship on Russian, Glasnost allowed people to reconsider pageantry and mute discipline into a Soviet, and Eastern bloc fashion, to debates several aspects of everyday life, including stage for the production of the radical self on Cold War competition and consumption, sexuality. Her project helps expand a limited and, eventually, a soviet Museum of the and to emerging discussion of everyday life understanding of the perestroika years by Revolution. Tracing this development from and the nature of “late” socialism. looking beyond the immediate political 1825 to 1930 leads us to new insights into and economic instabilities and highlighting the birth of the Russian revolutionary The Cohen-Tucker Fellowship Program the country’s social and moral battles. intelligentsia; the entwinement of symbols, is sponsored by the KAT Charitable She explores the mutually-constitutive spaces, and subjects in cultures of dissent; Foundation, which we thank for its relationship between sexuality and anxieties and the history of political imprisonment in generous support. European modernity.

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21ST-CENTURY APPROACHES TO COPYRIGHT LAW

Janice T. Pilch RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY

Given the fact that copyright norms are integral to the scholarly enterprise, the polarization that has developed around copyright law can be bewildering. As digital industry coalitions advance aggressive anti-copyright agendas, copyright law has become one of the most debated topics of the twenty-first century. It is nearly impossible not to be targeted by strategies aimed at replacing longstanding laws with behaviors and practices that re-channel the economic benefits of copyright protection from individual creators—writers, musicians, songwriters, filmmakers, and photographers, and others—to megacorporations under the rubric of fairness. U.S.-led technology coalitions pull strings by funding and incentivizing an array of entities, ranging from non-governmental (including library) organizations to law school programs and centers, to individual faculty, instructors, and librarians to align with them under the umbrella of “public interest advocacy.” Social media, email lists, and academic conferences are flooded with anti-copyright messaging, a great deal of it underwritten by industry in an attempt to penetrate the policy sphere. Such efforts are global and are having influence in the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian region. Anti-copyright strategies have had deleterious effect upon the livelihoods of creators and challenged the rule of law itself. These outcomes have perplexed those with positive intentions toward authors and other creators.

NEWSNET June 2019 18 Based on moral and economic purpose of this exercise is to show that principles, copyright law is included a diligent copyright review is feasible, in the 1948 United Nations Universal even if it involves some thought. Such Declaration of Human Rights as a a review not only limits a scholar’s fundamental right. According to its liability, but more importantly, retains provisions, “Everyone has the right a critical application of reason, as well to the protection of the moral and as mutual respect for creators, and material interests resulting from any affirms the value of human creativity scientific, literary or artistic production and intellect. of which he is the author.” Spearheaded When assessing the copyright status by Eleanor Roosevelt, this post-war Irina Nakhova, Room No. 1, 1983 Gelatin silver print on paper of an image, some basic facts need declaration constituted a universal Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist to be ascertained: the lifespan of acknowledgment of the rights of Art from the Soviet Union Zimmerli Art Museum the author/s, whether the work is all individuals and an affirmation Photo: Peter Jacobs © 2019 Irina Nakhova anonymous or pseudonymous, the of human dignity following the work’s published or unpublished devastating policies of fascist regimes change in their favor. More and more status, its date of creation or during World War II. It aimed and still creators go unpaid as they become first publication, its place of first aims to ensure that creativity and economically marginalized and as publication, whether the work was original expression are appropriately revenues are diverted from the cultural initially published posthumously, and rewarded and encouraged. Current sector to the technology sector. possibly other pertinent information. anti-copyright rhetoric defies thisWhat is a balanced approach to universally accepted principle of copyright in an age when such U.S. law applies to a use within the U.S. equality under the law. influence may blur truth and create of a work for which the country of origin is foreign. A scholar should determine, While it has become popular to claim confusion, when formulas based at a minimum, the U.S. copyright status that copyright is an unnecessary evil on the notion of liberation from an of the work intended for reproduction that restricts people’s access to cultural oppressor may obscure a fundamental in a U.S. publication and its copyright works, history shows that balanced negation of human rights? How should status in the country of origin. The work copyright law greatly benefits people scholars approach copyright issues? may be in the public domain in one or and culture by ensuring that cultural Should scholars resent copyright law both countries because the copyright production is funded. Copyright or appreciate this system that honors has expired or because it was never law does not unduly restrict use of the rights of creators and publishers eligible for copyright, as may be the copyrighted works for educational who bring quality works to the public? case for certain types of government or scholarly uses. It has always been It may be helpful to take a look at documents. A scholar may also need limited in duration and in scope, a practical copyright question that to assess the work’s status in other ensuring that works enter the public frequently arises among scholars of countries, especially if the use of domain within a defined period. In Slavic, East European, and Eurasian the work will be global in reach, as addition, most national laws have Studies: re-publication of an image -- happens, for example, in an open generous limitations and exceptions to typically a photograph, an illustration, access publication. That assessment is allow for reasonable, non-commercial, or the image of a poster originally often based on the death date of the and personal uses. But for nearly three created or published in the former USSR author and the date of publication. decades, technology corporations or eastern Europe -- in a traditional have fought these norms by advancing scholarly publication. This situation Then there is the issue of contracts or a campaign to promote negative confronts many scholars who wish to licenses that would be binding over attitudes and behaviors toward avoid legal liability but need to use the terms of copyright law relative to copyright and to erode copyright relevant images found in unpublished the work in question. For example, law from within through legislative collections or published volumes. The if the image comes from a licensed

NEWSNET June 2019 19 database, the terms and conditions agree to go ahead if the risk is minimal, copyright, and we will be happy to of that database need to be checked. with or without an indemnification. help. Copyright exceptions may still apply. Dealing with republication of images Although there is no copyright in a scholarly publication need not be Janice T. Pilch is a member of the library limitation or exception that easily an onerous process. faculty at Rutgers, The State University of applies globally to the republication The Committee on Libraries and New Jersey and chair of the ASEEES CLIR of images in a scholarly work, its Information Resources’ (CLIR) Subcommittee on Copyright Issues that is lack does not preclude the use of Subcommittee on Copyright Issues dedicated to education in international these images. Traditional publishers guides scholars and librarians on copyright issues for the benefit of have different policies regarding copyright issues and can explain librarians and scholars in the field of republication of copyrighted images alternatives in the decision-making Slavic, East European, and Eurasian based on exceptions, permissions, process. Our website is being studies. or risk assessment. Ultimately, the revised and soon will have updated publisher decides whether to allow The views expressed in this article belong solely information. Please contact Janice T. republication based on the facts a to the author. These comments do not reflect Pilch, subcommittee chair, at janice. scholar brings to the table as well and are not associated with any opinion, policy, [email protected] with questions on or practice of Rutgers University or of ASEEES. as documentation of attempts a Slavic, East European, and Eurasian scholar has made to identify, locate, and contact a copyright holder. For images of well-known illustrators, Forthcoming in Slavic Review Volume 78, Summer 2019 artists, or photographers, likely places for scholars to search for names of CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: NEW WAR FRONTIERS AND THE END OF POSTSOCIALISM current copyright holders are previous • Introduction by Neringa Klumbyte publications that contain such • “Commemoration and the New Frontiers of War in Ukraine” by Catherine Wanner acknowledgments. Reasonable, but • “Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier” by not necessarily exhaustive, searches Neringa Klumbyte of the internet and reference works to • “Would You Flee, or Would You Fight? Tracing the Tensions at the Latvian-Russian ascertain the names of rightsholders, Border” by Liene Ozolina who may be family members or other • “The Rhetoric of War and the Reshaping of Civil Society in the Republic of North heirs, may be necessary. At the same Macedonia” by Vasiliki Neofotistos • Afterword by Nancy Ries time, publishers have become more understanding about the problems ARTICLES that can arise when a scholar is unable • “Phantom Borders in Eastern Europe: A New Concept for Regional Research” to identify or locate a copyright holder, by Béatrice von Hirschhausen, Hannes Grandits, Claudia Kraft, Dietmar Müller, or when the potential copyright holder and Thomas Serrier does not respond to a permissions • “’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine” by Valeria Sobol request, especially with respect to • “The Synchronous War Novel: Ordeal of the Unarmed Person in Serhiy Zhadan’s Internat” by Tanya Zaharchenko older images. The publisher may agree to rely on a copyright exception, CLUSTER: VISIONS OF RUSSIAN MODERNISM-CHALLENGING NARRATIVES OF such as fair use or an orphan works IMITATION, INFLUENCE, AND PERIPHERY exception, without the scholar having • Introduction by Allison Leigh to indemnify the publisher against • “Il’ia Repin in Paris: Mediating French Modernism” by Allison Leigh legal damages; or the publisher may • “Painting Light Scientifically: Arkhip Kuindzhi’s Intermedial Environment” by rely on a copyright exception on the Viktoria Paranyuk • “Shifting Peripheries: The Case of Russian Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelite condition that the scholar indemnify Brotherhood” by Daria V. Ezerova the publisher; or the publisher may

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Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and cases to court. To shed light on the factors the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950, by that make victories possible in discrimination Martin Kohlrausch, was published by Leuven cases, the book compares forms of University Press in March 2019. discrimination faced by women and LGBT The first half of the twentiethpeople in Russia and Turkey. Additionally, it century witnessed the rise of modernist grounds the law in the personal experiences architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals of individual people fighting to defend their how East Central Europe turned into one rights. of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By Crimea in War and Transformation by Mara combining the internationalism of the CIAM Kozelsky, published by Oxford University organization and the modernising aspirations Press in 2019, examines the toll of violence on of the new states built after 1918, the reach civilians and the environment. War landed on of modernist architects extended far beyond Crimea’s coast in September 1854, and within their established fields. Yet, these architects a month, it had plunged the peninsula into paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes a subsistence crisis. Having exhausted local intensified. Mainly drawing on Polish, but resources, the imperial army extracted food also wider Central and Eastern European and supplies from deep within Ukraine. The cases, this book delivers a pioneering study Allies conducted a guerre de course, burning of the dynamics of modernist architects as a cities and villages to the ground. Officers group, including how they became qualified, accused Tatars of betrayal and deported large how they organized, communicated and segments of the local population. attempted to live the modernist lifestyle Peace did not bring relief to Crimea. themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity Removal of bodies and human waste took raises questions concerning collective work months. Epidemics swept away young in general and also invites us to examine the children and the elderly. Officials estimated social role of architects today. Crimean War devastation exceeded that of Napoleon’s invasion. Recovery packages Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and failed human need, and by 1864, nearly the European Court of Human Rights, by Lisa 200,000 Tatars left Crimea. Covering McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and mobilization through reconstruction, Crimea Melike Sayoglu, was published by Oxford in War and Transformation provides insight University Press in March 2019. into an understudied conflict and suggests Women and the LGBT community the experience of war produced the Great in Russia and Turkey face pervasive Reforms. discrimination. Only a small percentage challenge their mistreatment in court. A Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global minority of activists who have exhausted Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective, their domestic appeals turn to their last edited by Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, hope: the European Court of Human Rights and Didem Buhari-Gulmez, was published by (ECtHR). Russian citizens have brought Palgrave in 2018. tens of thousands of cases to the ECtHR This volume analyzes crises in over the past two decades. But only one of International Relations (IR) in an innovative these cases resulted in a finding of gender way. Rather than conceptualizing a crisis discrimination-and that case was brought by as something unexpected that has to be a man. By comparison, the Court has found managed, the contributors argue that a crisis gender discrimination more frequently in needs to be analyzed within a wider context decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender of change: when new discourses are formed, Justice explores the obstacles that confront communities are (re)built, and new identities those who try to bring gender discrimination emerge. Focusing on Ukraine, the book

NEWSNETJune 2019 24 explore various questions related to crisis and Focusing on the works of four different change, including: How are crises culturally artists—Vrubel, Kandinsky, Malevich, and and socially constructed? How do issues Tatlin—Taroutina shows how engagement of agency and structure come into play in with medieval pictorial traditions drove Ukraine? Which subjectivities were brought each artist to transform his own practice, into existence by Ukraine crisis discourses? pushing beyond the boundaries of his Chapters explore the participation of women respective artistic and intellectual milieu. She in Euromaidan, identity shifts in the Crimean also examines the activities of a number of Tatar community and diaspora politics, cultural associations and institutions over the discourses related to corruption, anti-Soviet course of several decades. As a result, The Icon partisan warfare, and the annexation of and the Square gives a more complete picture Crimea, as well as long distance impacts of of Russian modernism: one that attends to the crisis. the dialogue between generations of artists, curators, collectors, critics, and theorists. Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Iron Curtain Twitchers: Russo-American by Rachel Applebaum, was published by Cold War Relations, by Jennifer M. Hudson, Cornell University Press in April 2019. was published by Rowman & Littlefield in Applebaum shows how the Soviet November 2018. Union promoted a policy of transnational The Cold War is often viewed in friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites absolutist terminology: the United States and to create a cohesive socialist world. This the Soviet Union characterized one another friendship project resulted in a new type in oppositional rhetoric and pejorative of imperial control based on cross-border propaganda. Yet such characterizations contacts between ordinary citizens. neglect the complexities that created Applebaum argues that in Czechoslovakia, fissures throughout the ideological conflict. socialist friendship was capable of surviving Iron Curtain Twitchers analyzes the disparate Stalinism and the Soviet invasion that perspectives of public politicians and private crushed the 1968 Prague Spring. Eventually, citizens throughout the Cold War’s duration the project became so successful that it and its aftermath to better understand the undermined the very alliance it was designed political, cultural, and geopolitical nuances to support: as Soviets and Czechoslovaks of U.S.-Russia relations. got to know one another, they discovered important cultural and political differences In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain, (University that contradicted propaganda about a of Toronto Press, October 2018), Gabriel cohesive socialist world. Empire of Friends N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine reveals that the sphere of everyday life Poland’s role in prosecuting Nazi German was central to the construction of the criminals during the first decade and a half of transnational socialist system in Eastern the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend Europe—and, ultimately, its collapse. that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to In The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism postwar Polish society and Poles’ cravings for and the Russo-Byzantine Revival, (Penn State vengeance against German Nazis and that University Press, 2018), Maria Taroutina Poland’s prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a examines how the traditional interests of the fair degree of due process resembling similar crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy proceedings in Western democratic counties. of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, The authors examine reactions to leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the the trials among Poles and Jews. Although turn of the twentieth century through a Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the shared interest in the Byzantine past. wake of the German wartime occupation

NEWSNET June 2019 25 of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of concludes with a photographic survey of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate architectural monuments mentioned in the of Jews during the Holocaust. This is the text. first book to approach communist Poland’s judicial postwar confrontation with the Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human legacy of the Nazi occupation. Rights in the Twentieth Century, by James Loeffler, was publilshed by Yale University Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People, by Press in May 2018. Patricia Herlihy, was published by Academic 2018 marks the seventieth Studies Press in January 2019. anniversary of the birth of the State of Israel More ethnically diverse than St. and the creation of the Universal Declaration Petersburg, Odessa became a remarkable, of Human Rights. Both remain tied together independent-minded, large cosmopolitan in the ongoing debates about the Israeli- city, attracting and producing noted writers, Palestinian conflict, global antisemitism, and artists, musicians and scholars. American foreign policy. Loeffler explores Imperial Russian tsars and Soviet this history through the stories of five leaders maintained an ambivalent attitude Jewish founders of international human towards the maverick city. With the withering rights, following them from the prewar of the lucrative grain trade by the time of the shtetls of eastern Europe to the postwar Soviet Union, Odessa became a neglected United Nations, a journey that includes city, drained of its foreign flavor. With the the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the independence of Ukraine in 1991, there were founding of Amnesty International, and the hopes raised that the architectural beauty UN resolution of 1975 labeling Zionism as and economic prospects of the city would be racism. The result is a book that challenges revived. Given the current hostilities in Eastern assumptions about the history of human Ukraine with the potential of the Odessa rights and offers a new perspective on the area becoming a possible land bridge to the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Crimean Peninsula, the fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension. Russia’s Regional Identities: The Power of the This book brings together research on Provinces, edited by Edith W. Clowes, Gisela Odessa and its culture, community, and Erbslöh, and Ani Kokobobo, was published economy published by Herlihy over several by Routledge in 2018. decades of her work. Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with Pereslavl-Zalesskii: Architectural Heritage in dependent provinces, made subservient by Photographs is volume sixteen in Discovering Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy. Russia series, written and photographed by This book, however, demonstrates that William Craft Brumfield, and published by Tri beyond this largely political view, by looking Kvadrata publishers in 2018. at Russia’s regions more in cultural and social The first part of the book analyzes terms, a quite different picture emerges, of a architectural monuments in their historical Russia rich in variety, with different regional context, particularly the mid-twelfth century identities, cultures, traditions and memories. Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior. The book explores how identities are formed The book also focuses on the town’s five major and rethought in contemporary Russia, and monasteries, including the Trinity-Danilov outlines the nature of particular regional Monastery, whose sixteenth-century Trinity identities, from Siberia and the Urals to Cathedral contains an Apocalypse fresco southern Russia, from the Russian heartland cycle that is among the most significant to the non-Russian republics. examples of meieval Russian art. The book

NEWSNETJune 2019 26 Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, World War II, by Suzanne Ament, was and Dissent After Stalin, by Rebecca Reich published by Academic Studies Press in (Northern Illinois University Press, March January 2019. 2018), examines the collision between A woman wearing a ballgown psychiatric and literary discourses in the singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a years after Stalin’s death. State psychiatrists technician’s tears ruining a master recording deployed set narratives of mental illness of a new wartime song; fresh recruits to pathologize dissenting politics and art. spontaneously standing and doffing their Dissidents responded by highlighting a caps to a new song, thereby creating the pernicious overlap between those narratives new wartime anthem. This multi-faceted and their life stories. The state, they suggested, book depicts the relationship between song had crafted an idealized view of reality that and society during World War II in the USSR. itself resembled a pathological work of Chapter topics range from the creation and art. Writers Brodsky, Siniavskii, and Erofeev distribution of the songs to how the public similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse received and shaped them. The body of to probe where creativity ended and insanity song that came out of that era created a began. Together, these dissenters cast true cultural legacy which reflected both themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. the hearts of the individuals fighting as well By challenging psychiatry’s right to declare as the narrative of the party and state in them or what they wrote insane, dissenters bringing the nation to victory. exposed as a self-serving fiction the state’s renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years.

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Anna Arays has taken over as moderator Duke Fellowship of the Research Triangle James Madison University. of the SlavLib listserv. Foundation). Kristina Reardon was awarded a 2019 Wilson Bell earned tenure and a promotion The 2019 Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral National Endowment for the Arts grant from Thompson Rivers University (Canada). Fellowships in the History of Art include for $12,500 to translate a Slovene novel by ASEEES member Angelina Lucento Natasa Kramberger. The American Council of Learned Societies for “Moving the Masses: Painting and (ACLS) announces the 2019 Mellon/ Communication from Budapest to Bishkek, Andrew Sloin’s first book, The Jewish ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. 1918-1941” Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and The 67 fellows, from 42 US universities, More information on the recipients Bolshevik Power (Indiana University Press, comprise one of the most institutionally and their projects can be found here. 2017), won the 2018 Dorothy Rosenberg diverse cohorts in the history of this Prize from the American Historical fellowship. They were selected from a pool In 2018, Danielle N. Lussier was promoted Association. of more than 1,000 applicants. Now in its to Associate Professor at Grinnell College. thirteenth year, the fellowship program Cinzia Solari has received tenure and offers promising graduate students a year On April 5, 2019, the Organization of will be promoted to Associate Professor of funding so that they can focus their American Historians (OAH) presented of Sociology at the University of attention on completing projects that form Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdańsk, Massachusetts Boston. the foundations of their scholarly careers. with their prestigious 2019 Willi Paul Adams Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Award, which is given biennially for the Starting Septmeber 2019, Andy Willimott Completion Fellows and project titles are best book on American history published will join the faculty of Queen Mary, listed below; for more information about in a language other than English. University of London. these ASEEES members, click here. Mazurkiewicz’s book Uchodźcy polityczni • Svetlana Borodina (Anthropology, z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w Rice University) for “Needed Subjects: amerykańskiej polityce An Ethnography of the Formation of zimnowojennej, 1948– the Inclusion Complex in Russia” 1954 [Political Exiles from • Gabrielle E. Cornish (Musicology, East Central Europe in University of Rochester) for “Sounding American Cold War Politics, Socialist, Sounding Modern: Music, 1948–1954] (Institute of Global Education Technology, and Everyday Life in the National Remembrance Soviet Union, 1956-1975” and University of Gdańsk) Outreach Program • Ioanida Costache (Music, Stanford is a detailed study of the University) for “Sounding Romani origins and dynamics of supports Polish-Jewish Sonic-Subjectivity: Counterhistory, U.S. involvement on behalf Identity Formation, and Affect in of East Central European studies worldwide Romanian-Roma Music” exiles in the early years of • Anna Karpusheva (Slavic Languages the Cold War. Covering exile and Literatures, University of Kansas) groups such as Albanians, lectures, conferences, for “In Search of a Form for Soviet Romanians, Hungarians, workshops, fellowships Trauma: Svetlana Alexievich’s Prose Poles, and Slovaks, the between History and Literature” book’s signal contribution Call for applications at POLIN Museum is to join the literature of polin.pl/en/geop Beginning in July 2019, Emanuela U.S. Cold War policy and Grama will be an Associate Professor of propaganda formation Anthropology and History at Carnegie with the literature on exile Mellon University. politics in these important but understudied regions Among the 37 National of the Soviet bloc. The program is made possible thanks to the support of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, Humanities 2019-2020 Fellows is ASEEES the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. member Agnes Kefeli (History, ASU) for In 2018, Colleen Moore “Re-Enchanting the Eurasian Steppe: Eco- accepted a new position Nationalism and Eschatology in Tatar as an Assistant Professor of Literature, 1960-present” (Benjamin N. Russian/World History at

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GENE BARABTARLO Chicago instructor in 1950, retiring in 1991 as the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished MARY ZIRIN Gene Barabtarlo, Service Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Mary Zirin, a freelance Professor of Russian Slavic Languages and Literatures, Psychology, translator and scholar of at the University of and the Committee on the Ancient World. Russian literature, passed Missouri, passed He served as chair of the Department of away February 4, 2019. away in February Linguistics (1966-1969) and director for the She was 86. 2019. Barabtarlo Center for Balkan and Slavic Studies (1965- Having completed a earned a degree in 1991). He wrote more than 3,500 articles and doctorate in Russian Russian literature reviews, and nearly every important aspect of Linguistics at UCLA in 1971, Zirin devoted from Moscow historical linguistics has been dealt with, often most of her energies to uncovering the State University in multiple times, in Hamp’s writings. lives and works of Russian women writers 1972 and his PhD and advancing Slavic women’s studies. Her from the University of Illinois in 1985. He Six Festschrifts were dedicated to him, elegant translation of Nadezhda Durova’s taught at the University of Missouri from as was the unique honor of receiving a memoirs, The Calvary Maiden (1988), became 1984 until his retirement in 2016. Barabtarlo commemorative stamp (from the Albanian a classroom staple, while her Dictionary of was the driving force behind the creation post office) while still living. Russian Women Writers (1994), co-edited with of an MA program in Russian and Slavonic Excerpted from text provided by Wayles Marina Ledkowsky and Charlotte Rosenthal, Studies, and he served the university in a Browne. became an essential resource in Russian variety of capacities, including as chair of the literature and history. Starting in the early Department of German and Russian Studies. MAYA TUROVSKAYA 1980s, Zirin became a regular participant in Barabtarlo is best known for his research Maya Turovskaya University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s on Vladimir Nabokov. Barabtarlo extended died on March 4, 2019, Russian and East European Center’s summer the detail-focus of Nabokov studies, while at her home in Munich, Research Lab, often leading the Women’s identifying and interpreting patterns formed Germany. She was 94. Seminar and serving as mentor for countless by those details. This sustained project Turovskaya was graduate students, faculty, and independent yielded Insomniac Dreams, Sochinenie born on Oct. 27, 1924, scholars, all the while collecting critical Nabokova, and a translation of The Original of in Kharkov, Ukraine. bibliographical references on women and Laura into Russian, as well as other books and After graduating gender in Russia and subsequently Eastern articles upon which Nabokov scholars have from Moscow State Europe. She established the newsletter Women come to rely. He was a board member of the University, where she East-West in late 1986, which three years later Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation, and studied philology, she became the newsletter of the newly founded the International Vladimir Nabokov Society received a degree in theater science from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies has named its prize for the best academic State Theater Institute. (AWSS). She edited this networking resource article or book chapter in Barabtarlo’s honor. Turovskaya began to write about theater, concerned with the problems, status, and Excerpted from text provided by Martha Kelly, film and culture in the 1950s. In making the achievements of women in the profession until Tim Langen, and Nicole Monnier, University of documentary 1965 “Ordinary Fascism” she 1998. Zirin’s bibliographies, which regularly Missouri and co-writer, Yuri Khanyutin, drew from Nazi appeared in the newsletter, were considerably propaganda footage; film from Hitler and expanded and published in the two-volume ERIC P. HAMP Goebbels’ private collections; soldiers’ amateur Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Eric Hamp passed film; and children’s drawings and photographs Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive away on February of victims in concentration camps. The movie, Bibliography (2007), now a standard in the 17, 2019 at the age viewed by millions, mocked Nazism and field. In order to ensure continued support of 98. Hamp, an juxtaposed images of its evil actions with for independent scholars like herself, Zirin set Indo-Europeanist, contemporary film scenes of lovers, mothers up an endowment to support the University made contributions and children that stood in counterpoint to the of Illinois’s Slavic Reference Service. The latter to the study of Slavic malevolence of fascism. has in turn honored her work by creating and Celtic as well as a searchable database of her “Bibliography After “Ordinary Fascism.” she shifted her of many smaller IE of Pre-Revolutionary Writings by Women,” focus to film and theater criticism. In 2008, branches such as Albanian, many of these which supplements her other reference works Turovskaya won a Nika Award, the Russian based on his own dialect field work. He added (https://zlist.omeka.net). In the 1990s AWSS equivalent of an Oscar, from the country’s to our knowledge of the Balkan Sprachbund. established the Mary Zirin Prize in recognition Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences for her Further, he was a scholar of American Indian of Zirin’s indefatigable work as an independent contributions to cinematic science, criticism, language. scholar and encouraging others (see page 20 and education. Hamp began his career as a University of for more information). Excerpted from New York Times obituary. Text provided by Christine Worobec.

NEWSNET June 2019 29 INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER NEWS

the Cold War, and the Nuclear Non- THE KENNAN INSTITUTE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Proliferation Treaty, 1958-1975” AT THE WILSON CENTER Title VIII Summer Research Scholars The Political Police and the Soviet George F. Kennan Fellowships • Carolyn Coberly, University of Virginia, System: Insights from Newly Opened KGB Kennan Fellows will be based at “Authoritarian Party Systems” Archives in the Former Soviet States An the Wilson Center in DC for three-month • Patrick Domico, Indiana University International Conference at Georgetown residencies. Fellows will receive access to Bloomington, “Koussevitzky and the University. April 3-4, 2020 the Library of Congress, National Archives, Russian Musical Diaspora” Sponsors include: The Jacques and policy research centers in DC, as • Keith Gessen, Columbia University, “The Rossi Memorial Fund for Gulag Research, well as the opportunity to meet with key Russia Hands” Georgetown University; Georgetown Office experts and officials. While conducting for Global Engagement; Russian History research, Kennan Fellows are expected to Title VIII Short Term Research Scholars Seminar of Washington, DC; International participate in discussions with the policy and • Johanna Conterio, Flinders University, Centre for the History and Sociology of academic communities, including speaking “Urban Planning as Social Engineering: WWII, Higher School of Economics; and engagements, meetings, conferences, and The Politics of Green Space in the USSR, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian other activities organized by the Kennan 1931-1941” Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center. Institute and Wilson Center. Upon completion • Walter Hudson, Eisenhower School, While the history of Stalinism and of the fellowships, the grantees become National Defense University, “Residual state repression is one of the most studied alumni, for whom Kennan will continue Forces: Their Presence (and Absence) and topics in the Soviet history, lack of archival to offer opportunities for collaboration US Grand Strategy During and After the materials about the institutions of state and engagement. There are no citizenship Korean and Vietnam Wars” security has remained one of the largest requirements for this grant. • Olena Lennon, University of New Haven, missing pieces in our understanding of Soviet Applicants have an option to apply “Lobbying for Ukraine: Perceptions of history. Historians have been relatively slow for the fellowship as individuals or as part Advocacy Groups in the Washington, D.C. to take advantage of these new opportunities of a team. If applying as a team, applicants Area on New Challenges and Opportunities and interpret their import. This conference must be citizens of at least two different in Influencing the U.S.’s Foreign Policy” represents a major opportunity to showcase countries. The goal of such joint fellowships • Thomas O’Donnell, Freie Universität Berlin, and explore how the hitherto classified is to promote collaborative research projects “Washington Viewpoints on the energy materials change our understandings of among US, Russian, and Ukrainian experts. & geostrategic relations between Russia, Soviet system, its operations, and its place in Kennan Fellowship Teams will: Produce joint Ukraine, Poland & Germany” the broader world. paper(s) for policy-relevant publications; • Svetlana Ter-Grigoryan, OSU, “There is No As new sources become accessible, Present work at DC, Russia, and/or Ukraine Sex in the USSR” new problems of analysis emerge. The events; Conduct meetings and engage with • Sergei Zhuk, Ball State University, “Soviet goal of this gathering is to explore those policymakers in DC. Ukraine and Capitalist America: Ukrainian problems and ask how new scholarship Completed applications are due by National Identity in Cultural Cold War, incorporating these new materials changes September 1. 1954-1991” our understandings of the Soviet system. The major themes of the Title VIII Short Term Scholarships Galina Starovoitova Fellows on Human Rights conference include: The Secret Police as an These grants allow US citizens and Conflict Resolution Institution; Entering and Exiting the Gulag; whose policy-relevant research in the social • Olga Irisova, Political Analyst, Editor-in- Police, Politics, and Society; Policing Culture; sciences or humanities focused on the Chief, ‘Riddle,’ “Improving Western Strategy Identifying Enemies; Policing Normativity; countries of Eurasia, to spend up to one of Combating Disinformation Campaigns: Source Criticism and Methods; Operations month using the library, archival, and other Cognitive Science Instead of Technical Abroad and Foreign Intelligence; and specialized resources of the DC area, while Debunking as a Key Solution to the Archival Access and the Politics of in residence at the Kennan Institute. The Problem” Declassification. deadline for these grants is September 15, The conference will open with a 2019. Please see the website for more details George F. Kennan Fellows book launch for the Russian (NLO, 2019) on the Title VIII Short Term Grants. • Paula Ganga, University of Rochester, “The and English (University of Toronto, 2020) Eastern Alternative. Russia as a Model for translations of Jacques, le Français, by The Kennan Institute welcomes the following State-led Economic Development and Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde about scholars: Democratic Breakdown in Eastern Europe” Rossi’s life and incarceration in the GULAG. Title VIII Research Scholars James Billington Fellow Sarde will return to campus for this event. • Natalie Belsky, University of Minnesota • Dmitry Kozlov, Human Rights Center Proposals and inquiries should be Duluth, “Encounters in the East: Evacuees “Memorial,” “Komsomol Meetings, Streets emailed to: [email protected] and in the Soviet Hinterland during the Second and Dancing Halls: Producing Spaces for [email protected]. World War” Public Action in 1950-60s Leningrad” • Jonathan Hunt, University of Southampton, The Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center “Atomic Condominium: The Soviet Union,

NEWSNET June 2019 30 The exhibition is not merely a ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM AT history lesson for 21st-century audiences: RUTGERS it provides a lens through which visitors can critically examine how such witch The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers is hunts continue today. Many are preparing pleased to announce Mister Deviant, Comrade for a landmark pride month this June, Degenerate: Selected Works by Yevgeniy Fiks, a celebrating once unimaginable social and new exhibition on view June 15 through July legal gains since the Stonewall uprising 31, 2019. The nine works, consisting of still on June 28, 1969, kicked off the gay rights photographs and multimedia installations, movement. However, the imminent 50th address the subject of the political deviant, anniversary is by no means an endpoint for the sexual outlaw, and the uncensored artist, action, as physical and legislative attacks who all became the shared “others” for the against individuals in LGBTQ communities Cold War-era Soviets and Americans, and persist not only in non-democratic nations, remain a problematic political legacy that but across the US. resonates today. Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow Mister Deviant, Comrade Degenerate in 1972 and has been living and working confronts the instrumentalization of in New York since 1994. His multifaceted homophobia, anti-liberalism, and anti- practice has bridged both worlds, exploring modernism as tools of propaganda and themes of memory, repression, and the ideology in both the United States and legacy of the political Left in Russian society the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It and the US. Fiks’s engagement across explores the era's persecution of various time periods resonates strongly with the nonconformist groups on both sides of Zimmerli’s commitment to contemporary the ideological divide, including political issues in art and its rich collection of art from dissidents, queers, and avant-garde artists. the Soviet period, as found in the Dodge Ranging from dry factuality to Collection of Nonconformist Art from the humor and farce, the exhibition begins Soviet Union. with a series of prints and photographs Image right: Joe-1 Cruising in Washington DC (Franklin titled “Homosexuality is Stalin’s Atom Park), Yevgeniy Fiks, 2012 Bomb to Destroy America,” highlighting C-print, Courtesy of Yevgeniy Fiks the interlocking histories of the “Red” and “Lavender” scares during the McCarthy era in the United States.

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Serhii Plohky, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, has won the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize for a second time, with Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy (Allen Lane/Penguin). Chernobyl is the first book to comprehensively explore the origins of the 1986 nuclear power station disaster, the fatal blast, clean-up and aftermath, and the longer term consequences that helped lead to the collapse of the USSR. It highlights deep tensions and dysfunctionality within the Soviet political system, individual stories of bravery and courage, and lessons for the global nuclear industry today. It also indicates how central the explosion and its aftermath were to the collapse of the USSR. The prize, run by Pushkin House, the oldest arts charity in the UK exploring, celebrating and supporting the best of Russian culture, showcases, promotes and encourages the best accessible non-fiction writing in English about Russia and the Russian-speaking world. Plokhy received the award on June 12, 2019. The full shortlist (author interviews are available by clicking on the hyperlinked text below) • 1983: The World at The Brink by Taylor Downing (Little, Brown) • The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti (Yale University Press) • To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd (Belknap Press at Harvard University Press) • The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre (Viking) • Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from German by Shelley Frisch (4th Estate)

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