How members of the gentry understood the right of redemption (re-acquisition) of sold land or land donated to monasteries shows that, under Ivan the Terrible, Muscovite statutory law and case law did not always coincide. The post Redemption of Sold or Purchased Land in Muscovy during the Reign of Ivan IV (1533-1584) and the Russian Attitude toward Rule of Law appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

By filling the gaps left by societal structures, women work to assist and empower the most vulnerable members of society. The post Overcoming Deep Polarization: Motherhood, Care and Islamic Activism  appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

Socialism “focused on political responses to disability, but with a specific ideological twist.” The post Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part II  appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

It is precisely at the intersection of disability advocacy and its politicization in the face of the Cold War that we should trace the development of the international blind movement in the 1970s-1980s. The post Ambassadors of Social Progress or Obstacles to Integration?, Part I  appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

In her 2001 novel, Ulitskaya uses the medical gaze to bring the pregnant woman closer to her child. The post Pregnancy and Writing the Female Body in Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s “The Kukotsky Case” appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian and Chinese positioning vis-à-vis the West has only become more antagonistic. The post Russia and China: Strategic Comrades in Challenging the Existing World Order appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

The cult of the Great Victory was transformed into the war cult of the Russian invasion. The post The Second Great Patriotic War? Sacred Memory and Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

Despite their conflicting interests and ideologies, every political affiliation across post-Soviet Europe blamed Russian war crimes on the Asian “other.” The post Russian Liberals and the Kremlin: Racism and Colonialism as Common Ground, Part II appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

‘Twas evening in St Petersburg The days were very short It happened in December At the dwelling of the court. The tsar was at the theater When the news was brought to him “The palace has gone up in flames!” The news was very grim! The post Destruction, Reconstruction, Belief: The 1837 Fire at the Winter Palace and its Aftermaths (A Paper in Verse) appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more

Through its effective use of language that went on to become a hallmark of its genre, Pushkin’s political verse helped shape a subgenre of civic poetry and was subsequently interpreted in the context of this broader corpus and its increasingly radical opposition to the state. The post Civic Poetry and the Decembrist Revolt: Pushkin, Virtue Signaling, and Liberal Vibes appeared first on NYU Jordan Center ..read more