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Journal News of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies., 58(3)

Author Pendse, Liladhar Ramchandra

Publication Date 2018-06-21

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June 2018 v. 58, n. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Spring at 50

In Search of the “Perfect Collection”: Armenian Studies 8 Collections at the UC-Berkeley Library Collaborating across Centers 12 and Disciplines: Pitt’s Central Eurasia Initiative

14 Affiliate Group News

16 Publications

22 Personages

Cohen-Tucker Dissertation 24 Research Fellowship Recipients

26 In Memoriam

28 Institutional Member News

31 Member Spotlight: Dan Healey

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office, but was nonetheless lauded for shining a spotlight on the Armenian genocide. FX’s period drama The Americans (2013-) is mentioned in just about every op-ed on US- relations. In the case of the Prague Spring, this tectonic shift in modes and registers of representation is overlaid by a changing attitude toward the events of 1968.

German historian Jan Pauer trenchantly remarks that the Prague Spring has been consistently fetishized by the West, while in the former , perception of the nascent liberalization of 1968 has changed over time. On the one hand, the Prague Spring presaged the of 1989 and has thus become regarded, because of its failure, as “the historical end of reform communism.”1 Famously, 1989 Prague Spring at 50 witnessed a demonstration in honor of Fig1Aleš Najbrt, Jaro 68 - Podzim 89 Občanské fórum Československo the twentieth anniversary of Palach’s self-immolation, as well as the return the Prague Spring on the cusp of its reconceptualization of the Prague 50th anniversary? Spring in an international context call Daria V. Ezerova of Alexander Dubček and Václav Havel YALE UNIVERSITY for the creation of new forums and into the public eye. On the other hand, A recent conference entitled 1968- the backlash against all things Soviet approaches to the study of the events 1989: Paris-Prague offered yet another of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and their that swept across the former Eastern retrospective reconceptualization On January 16, 1969, on Wenceslas Square in Prague, twenty-year-old Jan Palach doused Bloc in the 1990s cast a shadow on the aftermath. Such is the rationale behind of the event. Not only was 1989 Prague Spring on Screen, a panel series himself in gasoline and struck a match. In his suicide note – or rather, his manifesto – he Prague Spring’s glorified legacy, and it presented as “a mere inversion of vehemently condemned the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the regression to became remembered as “primarily a sponsored by the ASEEES Working spring 1968” – evoking a popular Group on Cinema and Television hardline Communist propaganda and draconian censorship. Three days later, suffering severe struggle between various communist poster that showed “89” as an upside- disfiguring burns on 85% of his body, Palach died in a hospital. Forty-four years later, HBO made parties and the whole event is viewed (WGCTV), which will take place at this down mirror image of “68” (see figure year’s annual convention in Boston. a mini-series about it. as an episode in the history of an absurd above)– but the insistence on a parallel experiment –communism.”2 In other HBO’s Burning Bush (Hořící keř, 2013) indicates an ongoing shift in the representation of between the Prague Spring and Mai 68 Although primarily focusing on words, the memory of 1968 appears to demonstrated an attempt to examine cinematic representations of political monumentalized historical events. Proliferating in television and big-budget blockbusters, they have been overlaid by the chronology no longer belong exclusively to the realm of high culture, nor do these depictions aspire to the events in Czechoslovakia from liberalization and the Warsaw Pact of late and post-Communism. But a broader international perspective, invasion of Czechoslovakia, Prague maintain a somber tone. But can commercial cinema and television do the kind of memory what about now? Soviet socialism has work typically done in higher cultural registers? Are these new depictions merely opportunistic rather than just in the context of Spring on Screen strives for maximum been extinct for too long and in many Communism, and to fully inscribe interdisciplinarity in order to assess and speculative, or can they be somehow commemorative and therefore politicized? The ways, the term “post-Communism” . 3 irreverent historical inaccuracy and farcical nature of Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin it in the global 1968, as it were. the legacy of 1968 across time, genres, is already obsolete. After all, there is Paired with the changing modes of and media. To this end, the WGCTV (2017) – adapted from the eponymous and equally fanciful graphic novel by Thierry Robin and now a generation of adults born after Fabien Nury – did not prevent it from sparking heated debate and igniting a scandal in Russia. representation that I mentioned earlier, is bringing together experts from a 1989/1991 who never lived under the end of post-Communism and the number of fields, including art history, Terry George’s The Promise (2016) received outstandingly bad reviews and failed at the box Communism. So how do we approach

NEWSNET June 2018 2 NEWSNET June 2018 3 architecture, film theory, and Slavic of “the event” by examining the works first WGCTV initiatives to focus entirely studies. The panels are organized of Jan Švankmajer and nonconformist on non-Russian film, and organizing this in a way that will allow screen composers of the USSR. The latter series revealed several larger concerns representations of the Prague Spring will offer a unique perspective on the relevant to Slavic Studies in the 2018 ASEEES BOARD ELECTION to be discussed both synchronically events of 1968 by looking at Soviet broadest sense. Firstly, the enthusiastic and diachronically. From the Prague radical intelligentsia and its protests of response to the call for papers could We are pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the 2018 election for positions on the ASEEES Board of Spring and the Soviet invasion to the Warsaw Pact invasion. not conceal the fact that the field Directors: Vice President/President-Elect and two Members-at-Large, serves three-year terms from January 1, 2019 Husák’s normalization, to Charta 77, remains skewed toward Russian to December 31, 2021. We thank them for their willingness to stand as candidates to serve on the ASEEES Board. to the Velvet Revolution, to post- The third panel will examine Studies. As a Russianist myself, I could Candidates for Vice President / President Elect Communism, the series will examine cinema’s interaction with literature and not help but notice that although we architecture during the “normalization” Jan Kubik, Rutgers University and University College London the far-reaching repercussions of 1968. continue to speak about the centennial Graeme B. Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the same time, the panels will avoid period under Gustáv Husák (1969- of the Bolshevik Revolution in 2018, the 1987). Innovative approaches to a purely historiographic, chronological 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring – Candidates for Members-at-Large interart dialogues will bring together approach and will investigate the events or, for that matter, any jubilee that does Thomas Jesús Garza (Slavic Studies), University of Texas at Austin of 1968 from a broadly interdisciplinary such diverse phenomena as the not center around Russia – remains Eileen Kane (History), Connecticut College and cross-media perspective. Czech New Wave, samizdat, and panel a somewhat marginalized topic. Maria Popova (Political Science), McGill University housing to help participants unpack Secondly, the conceptualization of Magda Romanska (Theater), Emerson College A panel entitled Witnessing 1968 such complex categories as genre, individual panels laid bare the ongoing will assume the ambitious task of gender, space, and cultural resistance. necessity to study the USSR as an For more information on the election including the candidate bios, visit our website. Information on how to vote investigating how the Warsaw Pact empire, and the potential for applying will be distributed by email to current members of ASEEES by mid-June. Finally, the fourth panel will zero in invasion volatilized the relationship postcolonial approaches to Russian on the difference betweenCzech and between documentary and fiction film imperialism throughout history. The Slovak cinematic representations of in former Czechoslovakia and . epistemic violence that resulted from the Prague Spring, and juxtapose them Tracing the unstable relationship the ’s obscuring or erasure with Hollywood’s own take on the that “to permit a far more adequate second life and a number of specters Kinokultura, and SEANS. between reality and fiction across of ethnic and geographical differences events. This way, the panel will not only account of the mechanisms of […] across the world. Revisiting Prague In Spring 2018, she accepted a position a broad array of works – from such in the name of a universalism that consider international perspectives mass culture [one has to] grasp [it] Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion on as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian classics as Karel Kachyňa’s The Ear concentrated all cultural, economic on the Warsaw Pact invasion but will not as an empty distraction or ‘mere’ the eve of its 50th anniversary can allow Studies at Davidson College. (1969) to post-communist productions and political power in has false consciousness, but rather as us not only to examine the changing also address the sensitive question Fig1 Aleš Najbrt, Jaro 68 - Podzim 89 Občanské such as Evald Schorm’s Confusion (1990) shaped the field for a long time and is of different responses to it by Czechs a transformational work on social modes of representation but to also fórum Československo (Spring 68 – Fall 89, Civic – the panel will examine the difference in many ways the reason behind the and Slovaks. In addition, it will raise and political anxieties and fantasies start a conversation on what history Forum Czechoslovakia), 1989. Screen print on between narrating and documenting isolation between the regional fields of paper, 84.5 x 60 cm. Moravian Gallery in Brno, the question of ethnic identity in which must then have some effective can teach us as we face the challenges social upheaval and its aftermath. Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian . times of political unrest. The panel presence in the mass culture text in and dangers of a post-democratic world. Special attention will be given to the studies. Thirty years after the fall of (Endnotes) will also discuss a number of recent order subsequently to be ‘managed’ or themes of surveillance and subjectivity Communism, there is a need for new 4 films dedicated to the Prague Spring, repressed.” What is the meaning of the 1 Jan Pauer, “The Dispute about the in light of Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive platforms and methods that would Prague Spring in 2018? A number of Legacy of the ‘Prague Spring’,” European Network revealing a changing attitude to the Daria Ezerova is a PhD candidate in Mind (1953) and the writings of Václav work against this isolation and more political scientists concur that in many Remembrance and Solidarity, June 7, 2011, Havel. events of 1968 at the beginning of the Department of Slavic Languages accessed April 15, 2018 http://enrs.eu/en/ efficiently integrate the voices of the countries worldwide, the present is an articles/104-the-legacy-of-the-prague-spring. the twenty-first century. WGCTV will and Literatures at Yale University and USSR’s former subalterns into academic era of post-democracy. This is a new Another panel focusing on gender conclude the series with a screening of president of the ASEEES Working Group on 2 Ibid. discourse. kind of politics that created a society and artistic freedom in the wake Peter Kerekes’s Occupation 1968 (2017), Cinema and Television. She is a specialist of spectacle, and not merely in a 3 “International Conference ‘1968 – 1989: of 1968 will reintegrate frequently an anthology of five documentary I would like to return here to on twentieth-century and contemporary PARIS – PRAGUE’,” The Institute of Philosophy, The Debordian sense. It has limited citizens’ Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, accessed marginalized voices – from anarcho- films from Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Russian literature and cinema, which she the question with which I began role to that of impassive spectators of April 15, 2018 http://oskf.flu.cas.cz/1968-1989- feminists to ethnic minorities – in its Poland, and Russia – the former discusses in her dissertation, “Derelict home. my essay, namely whether we can political games in which they do not study of the Prague Spring and dissent Warsaw Pact countries that invaded Futures: The Spaces of Socialism in consider contemporary popular participate and on which they have 4 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia under communism more broadly. In Czechoslovakia on the night of August Contemporary Russian Literature and in Mass Culture,” Social Text, no. 1 (January/ culture depictions of tragic historical no bearing. The Soviet Union’s non- addition, it will bring insights from 20, 1968. Film.” Her publications have appeared in February 1979), 141. events as being something other than participatory and exclusionary politics animation studies and music theory to opportunistic. Fredric Jameson notes Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, its exploration of screen representation Prague Spring on Screen is among the suddenly appear to have gotten a

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NEWSNET June 2018 6 NEWSNET June 2018 7 American University of Armenia’s Digital Library (http://www.digilib.am/)

interdisciplinary field that is devoted meeting with faculty members to the study of Armenians, Armenia, in History, Slavic Languages and Armenian diaspora communities, and Literatures, and other departments the Armenian Genocide. who had an interest in Armenian Studies. Besides meeting with key The definition of what constitutes faculty members, I also met with key the topos of Armenia has changed members of the Armenian Alumni throughout history, which in turn Association and solicited their informal means that the present day Republic feedback regarding their expectations of Armenia represents an important for collection development. One of but geographically limited part of the From UCLA Digital Collections the issues that I faced was the fact that historical Armenian homeland. In this our Armenian Studies collection was paper, I briefly describe the challenges evolved as an effort of collaboration primarily divided between two of UC and opportunities that librarians between the curators, donors, and Berkeley’s libraries, Doe and Bancroft. encounter when they begin to assess faculty members. There are several I also realized that the working their collections. challenges that a library can face when relationship between the librarians Background it comes to developing Armenian at these two libraries was dynamic. Studies collections. It is difficultIt was a function of differences in The history of the development of to find the qualified curators who understanding, vision and collection the Armenian collections at the UC are familiar with both Eastern and scopes, as well as perceived job-related In Search of the “Perfect Collection”: Berkeley Library remains understudied. Western Armenian dialects, Armenian responsibilities among the different The establishment of the Armenian grammar and paleography, along with curators and librarians. As a librarian ARMENIAN STUDIES COLLECTIONS Studies program at UC Berkeley in the working knowledge of Ottoman who was responsible for developing 1996 was a result of efforts a group Turkish, Russian, Persian, French, and the Armenian Studies collections at AT THE UC-BERKELEY LIBRARY of Armenian-American community other languages that are used by the Doe Library, I focused on collaborative members in Bay Area that led to members of Armenian diaspora. efforts with my colleagues at Bancroft. the establishment of the Krouzian Although manuscripts, rare and I also made an effort to reach out Liladhar R. Pendse Endowment. In summer 2002, Professor Stephan Astourian became common printed books, periodicals and enlist the members of the local UC BERKELEY the Executive Director of the Armenian continue to remain the focus of many Armenian community in the Bay As an interdisciplinary area of inquiry at a historical crossroads of language, religion, Studies Program and Assistant Adjunct traditional collections, non-traditional Area by attending several on-campus ethnicity, and empire, Armenian Studies poses particular challenges for librarians. As Professor of History. He focused on formats such as ephemera and and off-campus lectures and events. libraries attempt to build modern research collections attuned to the present and building a comprehensive curriculum non-Armenian-language materials This generated several donations of future needs of Armenian Studies scholars, it is important to solicit the input of both on contemporary Armenian history, produced by local Armenian diaspora Armenian books that were published researchers and of professional associations devoted to the field. language, social issues, and culture, communities are increasingly of in Boston, Fresno, Glendale, and which in turn encouraged the library importance. Being transient in nature, other parts of the in the Introduction and Statement of the Problem to continue developing its Armenian if these are not preserved or collected 1950s and ’60s. My own experiences As my colleagues and I try to understand and analyze the unattainable ideal of a collections for research and teaching systematically, they will be lost to the in dealing with the donors and well- “perfect collection that supports Armenian Studies,” several key questions emerge. purposes. It could do so by building ravages of time. The development wishers from the local Armenian Historically speaking, existing collections at the majority of the North American upon its collection of rare Armenian of rapport with the key community diaspora community have been universities are a function of personnel investments and financial investments books and manuscripts, many of them informants can be leveraged to enrich rewarding. I noted that the diversity over time. How can one define and measure the impact of such collections on the donated by Phoebe Apperson Hearst. the library collections, through donors of the Armenian diaspora in the world community of scholars and students in the face of differing philosophical collection interested in helping a knowledgeable and specifically in the United States is Skills, Challenges and building approaches and methodologies, often fraught with contradictions? How outsider in his or her collection so immense that there are unavoidable Opportunities can a collection be built in the face of limited resources and relentless technological development goals. limitations on the possibility of building a so-called “perfect collection” for all changes? Can one even aspire to build a “perfect collection” for a niche discipline Before my arrival in 2012, our Upon my arrival at UC Berkeley, I stakeholders at any given institution. such as Armenian Studies? For present purposes, I define Armenian Studies as an library’s Armenian collections had conducted an environmental scan,

NEWSNET June 2018 8 NEWSNET June 2018 9 The other decision that I made was of the total number of titles added digital assets at our library that were project that will be both sustainable scattered across institutions. Besides 4 “Search Results.” Search results - Dig- to also collect born-digital Armenian as a part of my strategy to rejuvenate related to Armenian Studies. I also and useful to the scholars of the future. the financial climates of the “new ital Scriptorium, UC Berkeley Library, http:// vm133.lib.berkeley.edu:8080/xtf3/search?rmod- Studies materials. This did not mean our Armenian collections. There are surveyed open-access Armenian In consultation with faculty members normal” that we all encounter, the e=digscript&smode=basic&text=armenian&doc- that I did not collect print materials currently several other libraries on Studies e-resources located at other at UC Berkeley, for example, I launched paucity of Armenian Studies programs, sPerPage=30. related to Armenian Studies in various campus to whom I refer Armenian universities. The Online Archive of a web-archiving project called The along with their interdisciplinary 5 “Search in Digital Collections.” UCLA languages; I frequently collaborated titles that come in on the approval California provides us with access to Armenian Social Organizations of North nature, sometimes places Armenian Library | Digital Collections, UCLA, http://dig- with other Area Studies curators to plan that I manage. I did not take metadata about 299 Armenian Studies America Archive. The project selectively Studies collections on the periphery ital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?selectedProj- collect materials that were published into consideration these titles for the collections indexed in the OAC. Out harvests and archives the web sites of Slavic and East European Studies as ects=all&viewType=1&keyWord=armenia. in their areas of responsibility, such as purposes of this introductory article. of these, the UC Berkeley Library of a set of eighteen North American well as Middle or Near Eastern Studies. materials published in Latin America, deposited 49 collections. Armenian social organizations for Also both the analog and digital 6 “Online Catalog.” Center for Research The other tool that I used to Libraries Online Catalog, http://catalog.crl.edu/ the Middle East, etc. To date, at the posterity. The archived materials Armenian manuscript collections gauge the strengths of UC Berkeley’s For early Armenian manuscripts one search~S5. Doe Library there are 1,603 print include born-digital documents, in academic libraries are proudly Armenian Studies collections was can also use the Digital Scriptorium, as monographic titles in Armenian. audio-visual clips and other aspects of displayed in a fundraising context, 7 “CRL FY1 7 PURCHASE PROPOSAL OCLC’s WorldShare Collection Analysis well as sources from sister UC institutions ITEMS APPROVED FOR ACQUISITIONS.” CRL, www. However, not all of our Armenian- these websites. The archive is publicly these often represent past acquisitions Tool. The WorldShare tool allows such as UCLA., Another readily available crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pag- language books are held in our available at the following address: that date back several decades. It is es/2017_Purchase_Porposal-Items_to_be_Ac- us to analyze our collection for its resource often overlooked by librarians main stacks. A part of the collection https://archive-it.org/collections/9254. advisable that librarians responsible for quired.pdf. uniqueness. is the collection of Armenian Studies is located in the Northern Regional Armenian Studies collections should materials at the Center for Research This project is not primarily intended 8 “Archive-It.” Archive-It - North Ameri- Library Facility (NRLF), which serves as Leveraging Digital Resources consider an alternative collaborative can Armenian Social Organizations, UC Berkeley Libraries (CRL). Only last year the CRL to add to my strategies of creating a our off-site storage. collection development strategy across Library, 1 Aug. 2017, http://archive-it.org/collec- announced the purchase of Armenian “perfect” Armenian Studies collection, To return to the question of born- the multiple US academic libraries. tions/9254. As of January 2018, there were 1,012 digital Armenian Studies materials, diaspora newspapers like Amrots, but rather to preserve for posterity the Armenian-language books held by the Arawot, and others. This was a result websites of the Armenian diaspora in 9 Pendse, Liladhar. “Armenian Studies: an important part of UC Berkeley’s Home.” Library Guides, http://guides.lib.berkeley. NRLF. Therefore, the total number of of my proposing the purchase of these North America. Liladhar R. Pendse is a librarian for Armenian Studies collection edu/subject-guide/235-Armenian-Studies. books with a publication date of 2010 development strategy centers around important newspaper titles to CRL. Slavic, East European, Caucasus and Lastly, I would like to share our or later in our Doe Library’s collection the leveraging of current technological Central Asian Studies and Latin American One way to distinguish one’s Armenian Studies Library guide, which is 2,615. Out of these 2,615 books, since capabilities to harness and harvest Studies Collections at UC Berkeley. He also collections related to Armenian Studies I created in an attempt to provide my arrival, I was able to purchase 412. relevant online content. To this end, serves as a campus-wide coordinator for would be to launch a new digital information about the UC Berkeley This represents approximately 16% I conducted a cursory survey of the the Center for Research Libraries and Library’s Armenian Studies collections contributes scholarly articles on Open as well as open-access resources. Access in Eastern and Central Europe as The guide is not a comprehensive well as on materials in less commonly pathfinder to Armenian Studies as an taught languages. interdisciplinary area studies field, but it does introduce our students and (Endnotes) faculty to currently available Armenian Studies resources. 1 Antaramian, Carlos. Del Ararat Al Popocatépetl: Los Armenios En México. Mexico: Aip-Pen-Kim Ediciones, 2015. Print. I had pur- Conclusion chased this book during my visit to Mexico using the funds that were authorized by our recently This work highlights only a few of the retired Latin American Studies librarian Dr. Carlos issues that are associated with building, Delgado. sustaining and developing Armenian Studies collections in the context of 2 The data was obtained only for the completely cataloged books, as reflected in UC an academic library. I contend that Berkeley’s OskiCat. I chose the cutoff date of 2010 the perfect collection of Armenian for the year of publication. Studies materials cannot exist at a 3 For example, as of January 2018, there single institution, but will depend on were 52 titles in Armenian that were located at linking of multiple collections that are the Music Library. Ararat Eskijian Museum

NEWSNETJune 2018 10 NEWSNET June 2018 11 mobility, for geopolitical rivalries and students to think about water issues Jennifer Murtazashvili in GSPIA, was peaceful exchange. Today, rapidly on unfamiliar terrain and to explore selected to host the 2018 Annual developing countries in the region are a largely unstudied area of the world, Conference of the Central Eurasian sites for competing plans of integration while addressing an issue they know Studies Society. at a time when world powers vie over to be of global urgency—the need for Yet the expansion of our Central large-scale infrastructure projects clean, sustainable water sources. Eurasian programming has not come to link the region’s vast resources to This recent NEH award served only as at the expense of our other core areas. trans-regional supply chains. Because the catalyst for rolling out the Central As NewsNet readers are well aware, Central Eurasia is so critical for making Eurasia Initiative; it is the keystone, the 2017-2018 academic year was one sense of these and other global issues, but not the whole arch. In fact, of centennials and semi-centennials. we envisage our center’s increased both events reflect the culmination To reflect on the historical arc of the emphasis on Central Eurasia as part of of several years’ worth of efforts, Russian Revolution, REES held “The an enterprise to connect – and connect serendipities, and programmatic 1917 Centenary Series” last fall. The with – academic units of the university momentum that have propelled our series featured lectures by Professor that do not usually coordinate their centers at UCIS further into the field. Mark Steinberg of the University activities: the Dietrich School of Arts Throughout the 2016-2017 academic of Illinois, Grace Kennan Warnecke, and Sciences, the Swanson School of year, REES and ASC co-sponsored the political consultant and daughter of Engineering, the School of Business, Exploration of Cultural Identity along George F. Kennan, and Anne Garrells, the Graduate School of Public and the Silk Road speaker series, which journalist for National Public Radio. International Affairs (GSPIA), the served as a kind of pilot project for These lectures are available for viewing School of Law, and our parent center, ongoing cross-center collaboration. on our center’s website by following the University Center for International Collaborating across Centers and Since 2016, a foundational element the preceding hyperlinks. In spring Studies (UCIS). Disciplines: of our work on Central Eurasia has 2018, REES participated in a larger The current centerpiece of the CEI been our ability to hire a string of collaborative project of the University is an NEH Humanities Connections Postdoctoral Fellows specializing in Center for International Studies, “The PITT’S CENTRAL EURASIA Grant, awarded jointly to REES and ASC the region. Their presence gave rise to Global Legacies of 1968,” by screenings for 2018-2021. Titled “Water in Central an interdisciplinary Central Eurasian iconic films that reflected on that INITIATIVE Asia: Tributaries of Change,” (see page Studies reading group, open to faculty momentous year in our region. Finally, 30) the grant enables our centers to and students, which convenes monthly in the past academic year, REES also to discuss scholarly books, articles, hosted the series “Eastern Europe in the Zsuzsánna Magdó and Nancy Condee develop a cluster of undergraduate courses that build on another while works in progress, and other media World,” featuring scholars who explore Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh combining disciplines in atypical selected on the basis of collective the region’s embeddedness in global ways. “Central Asian Water Past” interest. Our Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. histories of empire, colonialism, and crosses history and environmental Patryk Reid, organized an international connectivity. As U.S. universities globalize their pedagogical and research agendas, National Resource symposium, “Rivers and History in studies; “Central Asian Water Present” Nancy Condee is a professor of Centers like our own Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) embrace the Central Eurasia: Control, Potential and brings together political science and contemporary Russian culture, cinema, opportunity to reach beyond their established regional and interdisciplinary focus in creative Change,” held in Pittsburgh in February engineering; and “Central Asian Water and cultural politics at the University of ways. REES’s latest effort to enrich regional and global studies has been to build collaborative 2018. In addition to its robust Russian Future” embraces both engineering and Pittsburgh and is Director of the Center for networks across campus in a bid to pool resources and attract interest from schools whose and East European Film Collection, business. The thematic concentration Russian and East European Studies. curricula have not historically been able to leave room for international studies. A shared on water in these courses reflects the the University Library System recently effort of the REES and Pitt’s Asian Studies Center (ASC), the Central Eurasia Initiative (CEI) contemporary significance of this topic acquired 230 Soviet-era, low print run Zsuzsánna Magdó is Assistant Director furthers academic programming focused on this vast and diverse world area. while providing a captivating lens primary source editions and Uzbek for Partnerships & Programs at University historical documents, joining what With an emphasis on trans-regional and global linkages, the CEI supports faculty and to study the Central Eurasian region. of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East was already the largest collection of student engagement with a region that has been both a heartland and a frontier for worldwide The courses will follow mutually Euroean Studies. Turkmen films in the West. Meanwhile, processes. In the past, Silk Road cities were simultaneously nodes for epidemics and human supporting trajectories: encouraging REES, in conjunction with Professor

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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of was published by Oxford University Press in The collection of essays published by of event-based art forms in these regions, a Town Called Buczacz, by Omer Bartov, was June 2017. While the Cold War governments Vladislav Rjéoutski and Willem Frijhoff each chapter explores the particular, critical published by Simon and Shuster in January of Eastern Europe operated within the in Language Choice in Enlightenment roles that this work assumed under censorial 2018. This book examines how genocide confines of the Soviet worldview, their Europe: Education, Sociability, and circumstances. can take root at the local level, as seen in the peoples confronted the narratives of both Governance (Amsterdam University Press, The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, eastern European border town of Buczacz East and West. From the Soviet Union and its 2018) challenges the traditional image of Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, during World War II. satellites, they heard of a West dominated by a monolingual Ancien Régime. During the , and Czechoslovakia are For more than four hundred years, imperialist warmongers and of the glorious intense economic and cultural exchange discussed with a particular focus on the Buczacz—today part of Ukraine—was home future only Communism could bring. A of the Enlightenment period, new forms of discourses that shaped artistic practice to a highly diverse citizenry. Then came competing discourse emanated from the sociability and corporate culture emerged at the time, drawing on the methods of World War II, during which the entire Jewish West, claiming that Eastern Europe was a everywhere in Europe, and multilingualism Performance Studies and Media Studies as population was murdered by German and totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless played a major role in the genesis of our well as more familiar reference points from Ukrainian police, while Ukrainian nationalists in the face of Soviet aggression. Feinberg modern societies. Various languages were art history and area studies. eradicated Polish residents. Bartov explains examines the nature of truth, using the used in different social and professional that ethnic cleansing doesn’t occur with political culture of Eastern Europe during the contexts, and had different educational and Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent the quick ascent of a vitriolic political leader Cold War. She offers an interpretation of the political functions. The rise of vernacular Russia, by Chris Miller, was published by the and the unleashing of military might. It Cold War as a shared political environment, languages contrasted with Latin in the field University of North Carolina Press in 2018. begins in seeming peace, slowly and often exploring the ways in which East Europeans of learning, French as a lingua franca for the When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, unnoticed, and with the culmination of interacted with these competing elites, or German, English, Italian, and other he was a little-known figure ruling a country pent-up slights and grudges and indignities. understandings of their homeland. She looks languages, used extensively by non-native that was reeling from a decade-and-a-half of For more than two decades Bartov traveled at the relationship between the American- speakers in multilingual settings such as the crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished throughout the region, scouring archives sponsored radio stations broadcast across Russian Empire, the Habsburg monarchy, Russia as a great power. In this analysis and amassing documents. He has also made the Iron Curtain and the East European and early modern France, including a of Putin’s Russia, Miller examines state use of hundreds of first-person testimonies émigrés they interviewed. Feinberg reveals country without a strong linguistic policy economic policy and the tools Russia’s elite by victims, perpetrators, collaborators, and that these parties developed mutually such as the Netherlands. The essays highlight have used to achieve its goals. Miller argues rescuers. Anatomy of a Genocide changes reinforced assumptions about the meaning the unexpected riches of multi- and that despite Russia’s corruption, cronyism, our understanding of the social dynamics of of Communism, helping to create the plurilingualism, the competition between and overdependence on oil as an economic mass killing and the nature of the Holocaust. evidentiary foundation for totalitarian languages, and their impact on national driver, Putin’s economic strategy has been interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern consciousness. surprisingly successful. Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain Europe. Explaining the economic policies Europe Redefined, edited by Piotr H. Kosicki New Directions in the History of the Jews in that underwrote Putin’s two-decade-long and Sławomir Łukasiewicz, was published Mikhail Epstein’s The Irony of the Ideal the Polish Lands (Academic Studies Press, rule, Miller shows how, at every juncture, by Palgrave in 2018. This book explores how (Academic Studies Press, 2018) explores 2018), edited by Antony Polonsky, Hanna Putinomics has served Putin’s needs by Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s the major paradoxes of Russian literature Węgrzynek and Andrzej Żbikowski, is made guaranteeing economic stability and eastern and western halves connected after as a manifestation of both tragic and up of essays first presented as papers at the supporting his accumulation of power. Even the creation of the Iron Curtain. The first ironic contradictions of human nature and conference held in May 2015 at the POLIN in the face of Western financial sanctions and section uses case studies from the origins of national character. Russian literature, from Museum of the History of Polish Jews in low oil prices, Putin has never been more European integration to reimagine Christian Pushkin and Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov Warsaw. The book is divided into two sections. relevant on the world stage. Democracy’s long-term significance for a and to postmodernist writers, is studied as The first deals with museological questions: united Europe. The second shifts the focus a holistic text that plays on the reversal of the voices of the curators, comments on the Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, to East-Central Europeans, some exiled to such opposites as being and nothingness, museum and discussions of museums and Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?, by Catherine Western Europe, some to the US, others reality and simulation, and rationality and education. The second examines the current Baker, was published by Manchester remaining in the Soviet Bloc as dissidents. absurdity. Epstein helps us understand state of the historiography of the Jews on the University Press in 2018. This is the first The transnational activism they pursued how the glorification of Mother Russia Polish lands from the first Jewish settlement book to situate the territories and collective helped to ensure that, Iron Curtain or no, exposes her character as a witch; a little to the present day. The volume provides a n identities of former Yugoslavia within the the boundary between Europe’s west and man is transformed into a Christ figure; overview of the history and culture of one of politics of race—not just ethnicity—and the east remained permeable, that the Cold War consistent rationality betrays its inherent the most important communities in the long history of how ideas of racialized difference would not last, and that Soviet attempts to madness, and extreme verbosity produces history of the Jewish people. have been translated globally. The book divide the continent permanently would the effect of silence. The greatest Russian connects critical race scholarship, global fail. The book’s final section features the writers were masters of spiritual self–denial Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere, historical sociologies of “race in translation” testimony of key participants in this history. and artistic self–destruction, which explains edited by Katalin Cseh-Varga and Adam Czirak and south-east European cultural critique many paradoxes and unpredictable twists of (Routledge, 2018), analyzes performance art to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Russian history up to our time. in East, Central and Southeast Europe under embedded in global formations of race. Stalinist Eastern Europe, by Melissa Feinberg, socialist rule. By investigating the specifics In doing this, it considers the everyday

NEWSNETJune 2018 16 NEWSNET June 2018 17 geopolitical imagination of popular culture; intellectuals, artists and activists, utopian the post-war origins of American studies, in everyday life, but also the social and the history of ethnicity, nationhood and visionaries, and discontents of all kinds. Key via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw cultural worlds of a multiethnic population migration; transnational formations of race themes include difference and inequality, and perestroika, to Putin’s Russia. Soviet that had coexisted for hundreds of years. before and during state socialism, including power and resistance, violence, and ideas Americana is a comprehensive insight into the Non-Aligned Movement; and post- about justice and freedom. This history shifting attitudes towards the US throughout Beth Holmgren, in Warsaw is My Country: Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, relies extensively on contemporary texts the twentieth century. The Story of Krystyna Bierzyńska 1928-1945 terrorism and international intervention, and voices in order to bring the past and (Academic Studies Press, 2018), tells the including the War on Terror and the present its meanings to life. This is a history about The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian story of Krystyna Bierzyńska from her birth refugee crisis. dramatic and uncertain times and especially Town, by Eugene M. Avrutin, was published in Warsaw in 1928 through the end of WWII, about the interpretations, values, emotions, by Oxford University Press in December when she was reunited with her brother, Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, desires, and disappointments that made 2017. Dolek, an officer in the Polish II Corps. 1914-22, Book 3: National Disintegration, history matter to those who lived it. On April 22, 1823, a three-year- Bierzyńska not only survived the Holocaust edited by Christopher Read, Peter Waldron, old boy named Fedor went to play outside. due in large part to the extraordinary efforts and Adele Lindenmeyr, is now available from The book Russians on Trump (East View Fedor never returned home. Several days of her parents, blood relatives, and surrogate Slavica Publishers. Press, 2018), edited by Laurence Bogoslaw, later, a neighbor found his mutilated body Christian family, but also served as a 16-year- For soldiers on the Great War’s presents a broad spectrum of discourse drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. It old orderly in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Western Front the term home front on Donald Trump published in the Russian did not take long before rumors began to Hers is a Warsaw story, a biography that suggested a degree of coziness, a place of press from 1997 to 2017. The content emerge that Jews murdered the little boy. demonstrates how, in urban interwar Poland, retreat from the horrors of battle. Russia was includes news articles, opinion pieces, The Velizh Affair reconstructs the the lives of liberal educated Catholics and not overendowed with coziness even before analyses, interviews and more, most of lives of Jews and their Christian neighbors acculturated, unconverted Jews significantly the war, but the early defeats, extensive which are appearing in English for the first caught up in the aftermath of this criminal overlapped. Bierzyńska’s story details her conscription, deepening economic crisis, time. Divided into thematic sections, each act. The investigation into Fedor’s death experience of two very different Warsaws: a and growing political instability meant preceded by a brief introduction, Russians resulted in the charging of forty-three Jews cosmopolitan oasis of high culture, modern the elimination of any traces and the on Trump also includes a timeline of key with ritual murder, theft and desecration of amenities, and tolerance, and an occupied replacement of coziness with food shortages, events and a detailed set of citations that Church property, and the forcible conversion capital intoxicated and united by conspiracy, strikes, disturbances, and, in 1917, full-blown support and expand on the Russian press of three town residents. Drawing on newly where the residents joined together to revolution. Then the situation became even material. Rather than pursuing a political discovered trial records, Avrutin explores the overthrow a common enemy. worse. Food shortages became famine. agenda, this collection aims to represent the factors that not only caused fear and conflict Economic crisis became collapse and, in plurality of viewpoints that exist under Putin 1918–20, flight from hellish cities like starving – from official policy mouthpieces to the pro- Petrograd. Political struggles became civil Western left wing to the nationalist right. war. Terrible antisemitic pogroms occurred. The picture that emerges shows Russians’ The multiple crises engendered cholera, own hopes, preconceptions and (in some typhus, and influenza which ravagedcases) fantasies constructing a nuanced, malnourished bodies. On top of the war multifaceted image of one of the most Global Education dead some ten million died in the Civil War, controversial presidents in American history. mainly from illnesses. The 34 contributions Outreach Program shine a light on these events. Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, by supports Polish-Jewish The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921, by Mark Sergei Zhuk, was released in March 2018 in studies worldwide Steinberg, (Oxford University Press), is a new the US by I.B. Taurus. history of Russia’s revolutionary era as a story The Americanist community played of experience—of people making sense of a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large lectures, conferences, history as it unfolded in their own lives and as part directing the cultural consumption they took part in making history themselves. of Soviet society and shaping perceptions workshops, fellowships The events, trends, and explanations, of the US. To shed light on this academic reaching from Bloody Sunday in 1905 to community, Zhuk explores the personal Call for applications at POLIN Museum the final shots of the civil war in 1921, are histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, polin.pl/en/geop viewed through the doubled perspective of considering the myriad cultural influences the professional historian looking backward - from John Wayne’s bravado in the film and the contemporary journalist reporting Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their and interpreting history as it happened. The identities, careers and academic interests. volume then turns toward particular places Zhuk’s account draws on a wide range of and people: city streets, peasant villages, the archival documents, periodicals, letters and The program is made possible thanks to the support of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. margins of empire (Central Asia, Ukraine, the diaries as well as more than 100 interviews Jewish Pale), women and men, workers and with Americanists to take the reader from

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New from Slavica PubliSherS Three String Books is an imprint of Slavica Publishers devoted to transla- The American Council of Learned Societies explosion of 1908 that happened over a Cassio de Oliveira, Assistant Professor of Christopher Read, Peter Waldron, the demographic consequences to de- tions of literary works and belles-lettres (ACLS) is pleased to announce the 2018 desolate region of Siberia and the efforts Russian at Portland State University, was and Adele Lindenmeyr, eds. Russia’s tailed studies of particular issues, these from Central and Eastern Europe, in- ACLS Fellows. For this competition, ACLS by amateurs, scientists, and even science awarded a NEH Summer Stipend to write Home Front in War and Revolution, chapters take us to the cutting edge of cluding Russia and the other successor increased the number of awards to 78— fiction writers to understand it.B runo will and conduct archival research for his book 1914–22, bk. 3, National Disintegra- contemporary scholarship. states of the former Soviet Union. the greatest number in the history of the use research surrounding the event and manuscript “Writing Rogues: Collective tion, xxii + 375 p., 2018 (ISBN 978-0- John Reed. Ten Days That Shook the 89357-429-1), $44.95; bk. 4, Reintegra- program. The expansion of the program the contested explanations to illuminate and Individual Identity-Formation in the World, ed. William Benton Whisen- Jan Novák. So Far So Good: The Mašín tion—The Struggle for the State, xviii + hunt, xxiii + 301 p., 2018 (ISBN 978-0- Family and the Greatest Story of the allows ACLS to support fellows who are various aspects of Soviet science during Soviet Picaresque, 1921-1938.” 514 p., 2018 (ISBN 978-0-89357-428-4), 89357-459-8), $34.95. Cold War, xvi + 453 p., 2017 (ISBN 978- even more broadly representative of the Cold War. $44.95. Of all the books by American eyewit- 089357-458-9), $19.95. the variety of humanistic scholarship CEU Professor Andrea Pető was awarded The revolutions of 1917 brought ca- nesses of the Russian Revolution, John Voted Book of the Year by the Czech across all fields of study, and who reflect ASEEES awarded 2018 MAG Convention the 2018 All European Academies tastrophe upon catastrophe: famine; Reed’s Ten Days That Shook the World Republic’s Magnesia Litera when pub- a diverse and inclusive ideal of academic Travel Grants to Amber Aulen, Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values economic collapse and, in 1918–20, was and still is the best known. His lished in Czech translation in 2004, So flight from the hell of starving cities. excellence. University of Toronto; Katarzyna Jarosz, to honor her wide-ranging scholarly enthusiastic account focuses on the 10 Far So Good: The Mašín Family and The Political struggles became civil war. Adriana Nadia Helbig (Music, International University of Logistics & work on gender studies and European key days of the revolution, bringing to Greatest Story of the Cold War by Jan Terrible antisemitic pogroms occurred. University of Pittsburgh): “Romani Music Transport (Poland); Natalia Mitsyuk, contemporary history. The Madame de life the sights, sounds, and central fig- Novák is now published by Slavica in The multiple crises engendered epi- and Development Aid in Post-Soviet Smolensk State Medical University; Staël Prize Jury considered her research ures. Reed, officially a journalist, shed the original English. Although it reads demics which ravaged malnourished his objectivity and supported the Bol- like a thriller, this “novel-document” is Ukraine” Marianna Novosolova, Technische an exceptional contribution to shed bodies. On top of the war dead some shevik cause, and this book was the fo- based on the true story of three young Dassia Posner (Theatre and Universität Dresden; Jesse O’Dell, UCLA; light on Europe’s gendered memory of ten million died in the Civil War, main- rum in which he made his case. In the Czech men, Radek and Ctirad Mašín Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Olha Tytarenko, University of the Second World War, the Holocaust ly from disease. The 34 contributions end, the book has survived, and even and Milan Paumer, whose daring ex- Northwestern University): “The Moscow Nebraska—Lincoln. and political extremism. Pető is the to books 3 and 4 of RGWR’s Home thrived, as a primary source on the ploits of anti-Communist resistance and Kamerny Theatre: An Artistic History, fifth scholar and the first Hungarian to Front volume shine a piercing light on revolution, though Reed died in 1920. flight through the Iron Curtain to West these events. From broad accounts of 1914-1950” The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) and be awarded the Prize, at the initiative Berlin set off the Tschechenkrieg, a a consortium of Minnesota universities of ALLEA, the European Federation of Slavica Publishers [Tel.] 1-812-856-4186 massive manhunt by 27,000 ACLS announces the 2018 Mellon/ACLS hosted the fifth annual Interdisciplinary Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Indiana University [Fax] 1-812-856-4187 East German police and Dissertation Completion Fellows. The 67 Student Research Symposium on with the co-sponsorship of the Italian 1430 N. Willis Drive [Toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA Red Army regulars. fellows, who hail from 34 US universities, February 24, 2018, in connection with foundation Compagnia di San Paolo. Bloomington, IN, USA [email protected] were selected from a pool of more than the exhibition “Russian Sacred Art: The €20,000 Prize was awarded at the 47404-2146 http://www.slavica.com Bohumil Hra- 1,000 applicants. The program offers Connecting Heaven and Earth.” The ALLEA General Assembly at the Bulgarian bal. Murder promising graduate students a year organizing committee included Carolyn Academy of Sciences in Sofia on May 16, Ballads and of funding so that they can focus their Ayers, Julia Chadaga, Nadya Clayton, 2018 and was presented by the European Other Leg- attention on completing projects that Erich Lippman, Matt Miller, Roslye Ultan, Commissioner for Digital Economy and ends, trans. Timothy form the foundations of their scholarly and Masha Zavialova, TMORA Curator. Society Mariya Gabriel. West, viii + careers. 109 p., 2018 (ISBN Emily Laskin (Comparative Martin Nekola launched Czechoslovak Ball State University awarded Sergei Vol. 19, no. 2 (Spring 2018) 978-089357-480- Literature, University of California, Talks, a project that was created in 2016 Zhuk a sabbatical leave to start his new 2), $19.95. Berkeley): “Geopoetics and Geopolitics: with support from the Dotek Endowment research project during 2018-19 academic “Some texts, after I’ve writ- Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History Forum: Food, Wine, and Leisure in the Black Sea Region Landscape, Empire, and the Literary Fund. Nekola’s endeavor preserves the year. This new book project is “Soviet Diane P. Koenker ten them, have woken me up in the http://kritika.georgetown.edu Imagination in the Great Game” life stories of Czechoslovaks from around Meddling in American Politics during The Taste of Others night so that I break out in a sweat and John B. Seitz (History, Iowa State the world and are designed to be an the Cold War after Stalin, 1958-1991.” At Carol B. Stevens jump out of bed.” With this confession University): “Science and the Steppe: inspiration and a lesson in life, especially the same time, this project will explore Shabo legendary author Bohumil Hrabal con- Stephen V. Bittner cludes this genre-bending collection of Agronomists, Nomads, and the Settler for future generations. the connections between knowledge Kritika is dedicated to critical A Problem of Taste stories published at the height of his Colony on the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917” production about America in the USSR inquiry into the history of Russia and Eurasia. The quarterly journal Johanna Conterio fame in the 1960s. At the book’s heart Kenneth Nyirady was appointed Head and ideological struggle in diplomacy features research articles as well “Our Black Sea Coast” is “The Legend of Cain,” an early ver- William Craft Brumfield was named of the European Reading Room at the of Soviet-American relations; and the as analytical review essays and Articles sion of the novella (and Oscar-winning extensive book reviews, especially Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Library of Congress. Nyirady has served relations between “cultural” diplomacy Igor Fedyukin film) Closely Watched Trains. Beautifully of works in languages other The “German” Reign of Empress Anna Tulane University. He also delivered a since 1990 in the European Division as and covert anti-American operations by than English. Subscriptions and illustrated with woodcuts from early lecture, entitled “Avant-garde Architecture a reference specialist. Nyirady serves as the Soviet government during the Cold previously published volumes Malte Rolf modern broadside ballads, Murder in the Photographer’s Lens” at the Jewish the recommending officer for Hungarian War after Stalin. Zhuk will analyze the role available from Slavica—including, Between State Building and Local Cooperation Ballads and Other Legends appears here in as of 16, no. 1, e-book editions Museum and Tolerance Center. and related languages in Russia, e.g. of main actors of Soviet meddling in US History and Historians English for the first time, 50 years after it (ePub, MOBI). Contact our An Interview with Robert Edelman first appeared in Czech. Komi, and assists with Russian-language politics such as Soviet diplomats, guest business manager at slavica@ Review Essay Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) is re- HSS/NASA Fellowship in the History of acquisitions. He has merited numerous scholars, journalists, and intelligence indiana.com for all questions regarding subscriptions and Alexandra Oberländer garded as one of the leading Czech Space Science was awarded to Andy awards at the Library, including for his officers. eligibility for discounts. Beam Me Up/Out/Elsewhere, Tovarishch prose stylists of the 20th century. His Bruno (Northern Illinois University.) work on a team testing the Voyager work has been translated into more He will use the fellowship to study the Integrated Library System, for chairing than two dozen languages, and in 1995 history of the mysterious Tunguska working groups on Web archiving, and as Publisher’s Weekly named him “the most the European Division’s Webmaster. revered living Czech writer.”

NEWSNET June 2018 22 NEWSNET June 2018 23 Azerbaijan, one of the oldest industrial labor reserves. Its structure and staff how the collective memories of this centers of the former Russian Empire changed rapidly and often during its Jewish body have changed over time and Soviet Union. In her work, she initial years, as it failed to effectively through the exposure of the Soviet 2018 COHEN-TUCKER elucidates the connections between handle such a broad mandate. Despite public narrative. state imperatives for capital and its role as chief executor of Soviet DISSERTATION RESEARCH modernization, the movement cultural policy for more than forty years, Andrei Tcacenco and conglomeration of industrial the ministry has received virtually no History, University of California, Santa FELLOWS personnel, and the effect of both scholarly attention. Historians have Cruz forces on the industrial communities long argued that culture in the Soviet “The Culture of Complaint: Morality and and individual residents of Baku, Union was a vital tool for ideological Intimacy in the USSR, 1953-Present” developing a comparative illustration indoctrination, and, in turn, industrial Tcacenco’s research looks at Lyudmila Austin migrants, but also how “groupness”— an entirely new system of knowledge of change and continuity within the and agricultural productivity. But the Soviet republics outside the Russian History, Michigan State University as a relational and contextual rooted in the Marxist principles of industrial community across several Ministry of Culture tells a different Federation such as the Ukrainian and “Migration, Nation and Selfhood in the process—transformed at the local dialectical materialism. It was to fairly drastic administrative changes, story. Johnston’s dissertation will Moldavian SSRs, and takes a more Northern Caucasus since the 1970s” level as a result. More explicitly, she break down the barriers between the including the usual chronological redefine our understanding of localized approach to understanding Austin’s research explores the considers to what extent—and how— disciplines erected by “bourgeois”, break of the 1917 Russian revolutions. Khrushchev’s cultural “thaw” and the state’s campaigns to produce a migration of the Russian-speaking influxes of various migrants contested anti-materialist scholarship and to The development of the Baku oil Brezhnev’s proceeding crackdown by moral Soviet citizen during the Postwar population since the late-Soviet period, and contributed to a space that reconstruct humanity’s knowledge industry is central to Azerbaijan’s demonstrating how late Soviet leaders period of Soviet history. He looks at which concentrates on a case-study of changed dramatically over time as a in a new, distinctly Soviet way. The history, and important to Russian and shifted away from a conception how interactions between Soviet migration to the Northern Caucasus. result of numerously interconnected precise interpretations of this task Soviet history, but is also illustrative of culture as a vital component of citizens in the periphery and Central She focuses on the heterogeneous, Soviet structural issues. shifted from edition to edition, and of the metamorphosis of local the Soviet project and left cultural Party organs resulted in a dynamic, complicated circumstances relevant at times the project took on a sharply communities prompted by modern institutions to thrive or decay in the negotiated understanding of socialist to this migration, which included not Michael Coates nationalist tone. The vicissitudes industrial progress. wake of their neglect. morality and concepts of the New only the fraught “return” of millions History, University of California, of the encyclopedia project reflect Socialist Person in new discursive of ethnic Russians to their titular Berkeley the vicissitudes of the Soviet state’s Rebecca Johnston Karl Krotke-Crandall spaces of home entertainment, nation, but also the movement of “The Sources of Soviet Knowledge: changing attitudes towards and History, University of Texas at Austin History, Washington State University especially television and radio. Soviet other displaced people to Russia. By A History of the Great Soviet views on the usage of knowledge and “The Soviet Ministry of Culture: “The Holocaust in Russian Life: New citizens utilized mass media to spark focusing on the Northern Caucasus, Encyclopedia” culture. Governing Enlightenment after Stalin” Perspectives on Soviet Jewish Memory” debates about the meaning of Soviet she analyzes how influxes of inter- Coates’ project is a history of This is a study of the Soviet Krotke-Crandall’s project identity, nationalism and morality, and ethnic migration, which included the the writing of the three editions of the Rebecca Hastings Ministry of Culture, from its conception explores the creation of collective sometimes to express outright hostility arrival of many ethnic Russians who Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The Great History, University of Oregon in 1953 through the end of the memories of Soviet Jews by toward the Soviet state. showed more affinity to their Soviet Soviet Encyclopedia was intended to “The Oil Industry and Social Brezhnev era in 1982. The Ministry of unpacking the influence of public- rather than ethnic or local affiliations, be a revolutionary encyclopedia of a Development in Azerbaijan, 1860- Culture was an unwieldy fusion of six Soviet narratives on private-familial The CTDRF Program is sponsored by have affected social dynamics in the new type, which would transform the 2015” institutions responsible for everything memories. By conducting oral history the KAT Charitable Foundation, which region. Austin investigates not only way its readers viewed the world. It Hastings’ dissertation explores from radio broadcasting and the interviews and using qualitative we thank for its generous support. how regional policies attempted to was to be the tool that would lay the the history of community-formation circus to secondary education and the analysis, his project seeks to explore institutionalize responses to these in- groundwork for the development of around the oil industry of Baku,

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2010), and served on the Steering Committee SPRING 2018 ASEEES FIRST BOOK KAREN DAWISHA OLGA E. KAGAN of the University of California Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. In SUBVENTION RECIPIENTS Karen Dawisha Olga E. Kagan 2014, Kagan brought the Language Flagship died on April 11, passed away on, April Annual Meeting to UCLA. She served on the 2018 in Oxford, 6, 2018. A member of International Institute’s Faculty Advisory Congratulations to the ASEEES First Book Subvention Recipients for Spring 2018: Ohio. She was 68. the UCLA community Committee and secured and sustained the Born on December since 1981, she Title VI National Heritage Language Resource CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, for 2, 1949: she was Coordinator of Center. She was a founding co-editor of the Rachel Applebaum (Tufts University), Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in became interested the Department’s Heritage Language Journal. Cold War Czechoslovakia in Russia after language programs Kagan was a co-recipient of both the taking a Russian- and Undergraduate NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS, for 2001 and 2004 AATSEEL Best Contribution language course in Adviser, as well Iva Glisic (Unviersity of Western Australia), The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics and Ideology in Russia, to Language Pedagogy Book Prize for the high school. as Director of the UCLA Russian Flagship 1905–1930 edited volume The Teaching and Learning of program. She served simultaneously as Dawisha went on to study Russian politics Slavic Languages and Cultures and Russian Director of the International Institute’s UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, for at the University of Colorado at Boulder. for Russians, respectively. In 2003 she was Center for World Languages and its National R. Chris Davis (Lone Star College), Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority’s Struggle for She received her doctoral degree at the honored with AATSEEL’s Excellence in Heritage Language Resource Center. Kagan National Belonging London School of Economics and won a full Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level award. maintained an active research agenda and professorship at the University of Maryland In January 2015, at a special session of the carried a teaching load that included both ASEEES is accepting applications for dedicated funds for subvention of books by first-time authors at College Park before joining Miami MLA annual conference, the Association graduate and undergraduate courses. who have secured a publishing contract. Eligibility and application guidelines for publishers can be University in 2000. of Departments of Foreign Languages found here. Dawisha, a professor of political science at Kagan received an MA from the Moscow presented her with the lifetime achievement the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post- State Pedagogical Institute and her doctorate award for Distinguished Service to the Soviet Studies at Miami University in Oxford, from Moscow’s Pushkin State Russian Profession. At the Third International distilled her research into Putin’s Kleptocracy: Language Institute. Kagan emerged as one Conference on Heritage/Community Who Owns Russia? (2014). The book argued of the country’s leading specialists on second Languages held on the UCLA Campus in that corruption and authoritarianism in language acquisition, in particular heritage February 2018, Kagan’s colleagues presented Russia were not byproducts of the country’s language teaching. She co-authored eleven her with a volume of essays titled Connecting Fellowships with american councils emergence from communism but rather Russian-language textbooks, as well as across Languages and Cultures: A Heritage building blocks of a plan devised in the numerous articles and book chapters on Language Festschrift in Honor of Olga Kagan, FULBRIGHT-HAYS GROUP PROJECTS ABROAD early 1990s by Putin and a circle of trusted heritage language studies. Among her best compiled and edited by Susan Bauckus and Provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects associates. Many were, like him, former KGB known publications is Russian for Russians, a Susan Kresin (Slavica Publishers, 2018). Abroad fellowships are available to advanced-level students of Russian and textbook co-authored with Tatiana Akishina Persian language who plan to participate in the American Councils Advanced officers who were appalled by the breakup Adapted from obituary by Ronald Vroon of the Soviet Union. Officials in Congress and Richard Robin (2000). She was a Member Russian Language and Area Studies Program in Moscow or the Eurasian and the State Department consulted with of the Board of Directors of ACTR (1991- Regional Language Program in Dushanbe. Applications due October 15. More Dawisha after the book was published, information at: www.acstudyabroad.org/fulbright-hays and the president of Lithuania distributed TiTle Viii Fellowships For AdVAnced oVerseAs lAnguAge sTudy copies of it to members of the European DAVID ROBINSON of the department for six of those years. He Partial funding to U.S. teachers, graduate students, and scholars who are Parliament. Dawisha had spent much of led several student trips to the former Soviet participating in American Councils summer, semester, and academic year language her career on more conventional subjects, David Franklin Union and as a Fulbright Scholar, studied in programs in Russia, Eurasia, and the Balkans. Applications due October 15. More like Russia’s electoral system, but relished Robinson, 82, died Paris, Rome, London, and Sofia, Bulgaria. information at: www.acstudyabroad.org/title-viii the chance to do primary research. Unlike Saturday, April 14, A skilled musician, he was an accomplished most investigative journalists, she had the TiTle Viii reseArch progrAm 2018. He was born pianist, organist and harpsichordist. He Full support for research in policy-relevant fields in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern advantage of extended time to do the July 14, 1935 and was an organist at his church for more Europe. Open to U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. [email protected] spadework and access to sources who were received a bachelor’s than 30 years and was a keyboardist for Applications due October 1. More information at: acResearchAbroad.org reluctant to speak to reporters. Dawisha knew degree in Spanish numerous theater groups, vocal ensembles, researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/researchscholar that her book project would be controversial, from Swarthmore concerts and community events. A talented but felt that her professional status allowed TiTle Viii combined reseArch & lAnguAge TrAining progrAm TiTle viii Fellowship Funding For AmericAn councils College and master’s improvisational and classical musician, progrAms is provided by The u.s. depArTmenT oF sTATe’s Includes equivalent support to the Title VIII Research Scholar Program progrAm For reseArch And TrAining on eAsTern europe her to take the risk. he especially had a passion for baroque And The independenT sTATes oF The Former sovieT union. and doctorate with the addition of language training. Open to U.S. graduate students, Dawisha was the author or co-author degrees from the music. For more than 20 years, he was post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Applications due October 1. More of six books before Putin’s Kleptocracy, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate harpsichordist for the annual presentation of information at: researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/crlt including Eastern Europe, Gorbachev, school, he served in the Handel’s Messiah at Mount Vernon Nazarene and Reform: The Great Challenge (1988), military intelligence from 1958 to 1961. University. and Soviet Foreign Policy Towards Egypt He retired in 1993 as an Associate Professor Excerpted from Columbus Dispatch (1979). from The Ohio State University Department obituary Excerpted from the New York Times of Slavic Languages where he taught Russian obituary linguistics for 27 years. He served as chair

NEWSNETJune 2018 26 NEWSNET June 2018 27 INSTITUTIONAL Marcin Kaczmarski, Assistant MEMBER NEWS Professor, Institute of International OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Relations, University of Warsaw, “The New Ohio State University to host Silk Road and the Eurasian Union: Can From Pattern to Painting: The Religious Russia and China square the circle?” Iconography of Pimen Sofronov from Inna Melnykovska, “Assistant May 31- September 16, 2018. Russia, to promote networking and The next competition is for Title Professor, Central European University, “From Pattern to Painting” unveils VIII-Supported Short-Term Grants, professionalization opportunities for “Big Business, Capital Mobility and the process of creating a religious icon INDIANA UNIVERSITY which allow U.S. citizens whose policy- emerging scholars with prominent Crony Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine. through the drawings of painter Pimen relevant research in the social sciences or faculty in the social sciences, and to Stabilizing and Transformative Powers of M. Sofronov (1898–1973). Sofronov, an With funding from the Carnegie humanities focused on the countries of expose emerging scholars to innovative Global Finance” June – September 2018 Orthodox Christian icon painter born in Corporation of New York, the Russian Eurasia, to spend up to one month using methodological approaches in the social the Russian Empire in present-day Estonia, Studies Workshop at Indiana University the library, archival, and other specialized sciences. James Billington Fellows is the most influential iconographer of will host a two-day Graduate Methods resources of the Washington, D.C. Natalie Rouland, Independent the Russian emigration. Training Workshop for U.S.-based pre- area, while in residence at the Kennan Scholar, “Power on Pointe: Russian Ballet In the 1930s and 1940s, he dissertation PhD students in the social THE KENNAN INSTITUTE Institute. The deadline for these grants is and the Body Politic” established schools of iconography in sciences with a focus on Russia. The AT THE WILSON CENTER September 15, 2018. Please see the website for Riga, Paris, and Belgrade, lectured in workshop is September 14-15, 2018 in details: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/ George F. Kennan Experts Belgium and Prague, and produced works Bloomington, Indiana. George F. Kennan Fellows will be based at the Wilson Center in Washington, opportunity/kennan-institute-short- Sergey Parkhomenko, Journalist, for King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Carrying out research in Russia, DC for three-month residencies. Fellows term-grant. “Echo of Moscow” Radio, “Creation of an Pope Pius XI in Rome. After World War II, be it quantitative or qualitative, has will receive access to the Library of Independent Media Platform in Russia” Sofronov was invited to America by Holy particular challenges—navigating the Congress, National Archives, and policy The Kennan Institute welcomes: Trinity Monastery to teach iconography. complex archival and library systems, research centers in DC, as well as the Title VIII Research Scholars conducting personal interviews, opportunity to meet with key experts and Courtney Doucette, PhD collecting survey data, and keeping officials. While conducting research, the Candidate, Rutgers University, data secure—that can make it difficult George F. Kennan Fellows are expected “Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Create a for graduate students to make efficient to actively participate in discussions with New Soviet Person, 1985-1991” and effective use of their time while in the policy and academic communities, country. The “Graduate Methods Training including speaking engagements at Title VIII Short Term Scholars Workshop: Focus on Russia” at IU this the Wilson Center as well as potentially Tricia Starks, Associate Professor, September 14-15, 2018 will enable pre- outside of DC, and attending meetings, University of Arkansas, “‘Save the dissertation PhD students (students who conferences, and other activities Men:’ Public Response to the Soviet have not yet conducted their dissertation organized by the Kennan Institute and Demographic Crisis” PUSHKIN HOUSE research) in the social sciences to engage Wilson Center. Upon completion of the Monica Steinberg, Doheny in training and dialogue with experts fellowships, the grantees become alumni, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University Alexis Peri, assistant professor of history at Boston from IU and elsewhere with a focus on for whom Kennan will continue to offer of Southern California, “Humor and Subtle University, has won the sixth annual Pushkin particular challenges of research in Russia. opportunities for collaboration and Activism in Contemporary Azerbaijani House Russian Book Prize for her work The War Art” We define social sciences to include engagement. There are no citizenship Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad. Her requirements for this grant. Lisa Kirschenbaum, Professor, anthropology, communications/media book, published by Harvard University Press, was Applicants have an option to West Chester University, “Soviet Visitors studies, economics, geography, history, selected by a panel of five distinguished judges from apply for the fellowship as individuals and Russian American Immigrants: law, political science, religious studies, a shortlist of six strong varied contenders covering or as part of a team. If applying as a Cultural Exchanges in the 1930s” sociology, STS, and others. team of two (or three) applicants, the history, biography, international relations and The workshop will include applicants must be citizens of at least two Title VIII Summer Research Scholars graphic reportage. opportunities for participants to present different countries. The goal of such joint Lauren Woodard, PhD Candidate, The prize showcases, promotes and encourages their proposed research in a Lightning fellowships is to promote collaborative University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the best accessible non-fiction writing in English Round session; consult with faculty research projects among U.S., Russian, “The Politics of Return: Migration, Race, about Russia and the Russian-speaking world. This year’s shortlist included works experts; and choose from workshops, and Ukrainian experts. and Belonging in Russia’s Far East” translated from Russian and French. which will cover: Qualitative Methods, Kennan Fellowship Teams will: Timothy Model, PhD Candidate, The judges also singled out for commendation Other . by Victoria including interviews; Survey Methods; Produce joint paper(s) for policy-relevant Indiana University, “The Politics of Anti- Lomasko and translated by Thomas Campbell, as the best book in translation. Navigating Russia’s Library System and publications; present work at DC, Russia, Corruption Campaigns” The 2018 shortlisted titles are: Archives from the U.S. and in Russia; and/or Ukraine event; Conduct meetings • Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation. Rodric Braithwaite Datasets and Digital Methods; and Media and engage with policymakers in DC. The George F. Kennan Fellows (Profile Books) and Discourse Analysis. next submission deadline is September 1. Ekaterina Moiseeva, Researcher, • Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death. Olivier The larger goals of the workshop Applicants must submit a Institute for the Rule of Law, European Rolin. (Penguin) translated from the French by Ros Schwartz are to build a community of pre- completed application: https://www. University in St. Petersburg, “Reforming • The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. Yuri Slezkine. dissertation PhD students in the social wilsoncenter.org/opportunity/george-f- the Legal Profession: A Maturity Test for (Princeton University Press) sciences studying kennan-fellowship. Civil Society in Russia” • Gorbachev: His Life and Times. William Taubman. (Simon & Schuster)

NEWSNET June 2018 28 NEWSNET June 2018 29 SPOTLIGHT: DAN HEALEY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD In the 1950s–1960s, he created icons and in politics of development, conflict and religious murals for Orthodox Christian migration in the former USSR) will develop churches throughout the United States. Central Asian Water Present: Engineering in The Pimen M. Sofronov Collection the Industrial Post-Empire; John Camillus in the Hilandar Research Library includes will develop Central Asian Water Future: Dan Healey is and Soviet medicine, of psychiatry, the most interesting and exciting over 800 books from his personal library. Encounters in the Anthropocene; and Index of Advertisers a Professor of of police and penal institutions, of encounters of my professional The collection contains working drawings, David Sanchezwill integrate engineering Modern Russian masculinity. career. There’s no doubt that the pricked papers, sketches, and a number of perspectives into all three courses. The History at the organisation inspires and energises American Councils/ACTR 20,27 images from newspapers, magazines, and project co-directors (Condee and Mostern) University of What is your current research/work me year after year. And I met my Kritika/Slavica/ books that inspired his work. Photographs and other Pitt humanities faculty will Oxford. project? husband at ASEEES: Mark Cornwall of his work, exhibit catalogs, samples of work closely with the team to enrich Three Strings Books 23 in Boston in 1996. He’s the Eastern Learn Russian his students’ work, and correspondence interdisciplinary content with literary, When did you I have a long-delayed book-in- European ‘fox’ to my Russian in the European Union 30 complement the original drawings artistic and cultural resources, including the first develop progress on the history of medical ‘hedgehog’ (with apologies to Isaiah POLIN Museum 19 and provide context for this working Pitt library’s Central Asian film collection. an interest in care in the Gulag camps. If I mention Berlin). SRAS 19 iconographer’s life. All courses will incorporate experiential Slavic, East it here it will force me to get moving learning activities, including mentored European and put a smile on my editor’s face! Besides your professional work, what research projects that students will In addition to articles and news and Eurasian My forthcoming book, however, other interests and/or hobbies do you present at Pitt’s European and Eurasian columns, NewsNet also features a Studies? is titled Russian Homophobia from enjoy? UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Undergraduate Research Symposium, as limited number of advertisements Stalin to Sochi (London & New York: well as virtual peer-to-peer exchanges with from various organizations presenting I first travelled to the USSR in March Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), which I am slowly working my way through Pitt’s REES Awarded NEH students at Nazarbayev University. scholarly publications, products, 1974, as a high-school student in examines nine ‘case histories’ that the novels of Michel Tremblay in reveal the origins and evolution of the original Québécois. There are Humanities Connections Implementation Incorporating historical and humanistic services, or opportunities of interest a History group from small-town homophobic attitudes in modern as many characters in them as in Grant for Innovative Interdisciplinary content will teach students that science, to those in the Russian, Eurasian, and Ontario. Pierre Trudeau was prime minister, social democracy was in Russia. I assert that the nation’s Tolstoy’s worlds, so it’s a challenge. Courses on Water in Central Asia. business, and technology are entangled Central European fields. Please contact The University of Pittsburgh’s Center [email protected] for rates, specs and the air, and Canada was at ease contemporary homophobia can with human narrative arcs; they restructure be traced back to the particular for Russian and East European Studies production schedule. in its relations with Communist power relations and emerge from them, experience of revolution, political (REES) and Asian Studies Center (ASC) were countries. I taught myself Cyrillic and and they manifest in artistic and spiritual terror and war its people endured recently awarded a National Endowment a few words of Russian and became practices as well as technocratic ones. fascinated with the language. It led after 1917. The book explores the for the Humanities grant to strengthen me to a BA in Russian Language roots of homophobia in the Gulag, interdisciplinary connections across the and Literature at the University of the rise of a visible queer presence humanities, social sciences, business Toronto, graduating in 1981. I then in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the and engineering programs. Led by REES had an 8-year career in the student political battles since 1991 over Director Nancy Condee and Director of travel industry, and I escorted tour whether queer Russians can be the World History Center Ruth Mostern, groups to the USSR during the valued citizens. I also reflect on the the curriculum design team will develop Gorbachev years. The changes I problems of ‘memorylessness’ for undergraduate courses with linked student Learn Russian in the European Union saw propelled me back to academic Russia’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual engagement activities on the theme of Daugavpils, Latvia study of Russia. and transgender) movement Water in Central Asia. Historically a meeting more broadly and the obstacles point for peoples across Eurasia and home SEMESTER ABROAD PROGRAMS AT DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY How have your interests changed it faces in trying to write its own history. The book makes use of of the world’s largest pre-modern empire, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE and RUSSIAN LANGUAGE and since then? little-known source material - Central Asia today is a place of geopolitical RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE POLITICAL SCIENCE tension and struggle for access to natural In graduate school (Toronto again!) much of it untranslated archival documentation - to explore how resources, crucially including water, and RUSSIAN LANGUAGE and RUSSIAN LANGUAGE and I was fascinated by the unwritten Russians have viewed same-sex love the site of the longest war in U.S. history. To EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES NATURAL SCIENCES history of homosexuality in modern enroll a broad range of students, the new Russia and I hoped that fieldwork in and gender transgression since the mid-20th century. course cluster will enrich offerings in Pitt’s the opening archives of the 1990s Sustainable Development Certificate, the Summer immersions Fully tailored Internships would enable this unusual project. and Project GO study programs What do you value about your ASEEES Engineering for Humanity Certificate, and I was very lucky to have marvellous supervisors (Lynne Viola, Susan membership? REES and ASC credentials. • Full language and cultural immersion in a Russian-speaking city. Gross Solomon) whose confidence Patryk Reid (environmental historian of • Friendly Russian-speaking host families. • Convenient for side trips to Russia, Belarus, Poland, Contact us at [email protected] and rigor put wind in my sails. The friendships I’ve made and the Russia and Eurasia) will develop the course and all Baltic States. Queer history took me down many conversations I’ve had at ASEEES Central Asian Water Past: Climate Change in • No visa required for students from the European Union Follow us at www.learnrussianineu.com and North America. and facebook.com/LearnRussianInEU pathways: the history of Russian conventions have been some of the Preindustrial Era; Colin Johnson (expert

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