Scholars of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia at CUNY
Samuel D. Albert joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to share new research on: The Hungarian National Fine Arts Commission and Exhibitionary Politics: 1920-1940 In the interwar period, the Hungarian government aggressively pursued a policy of cultural diplomacy, of which one significant element was “representative” art exhibitions. These exhibitions were hosted in a variety of European […]
Irina Marin joins the CUNY REEES Kruzhok to share new research on: Vicious and Virtuous Circles in the Rural Economy of East European Borderlands at the End of the 19th, Beginning of the 20th Century This work-in-progress paper provides a cross-border comparison between rural communities in the borderlands of Austria-Hungary, Tsarist Russia and the Balkan […]
Join the CUNY Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Kruzhok on Friday, March 22nd at 12:30 PM (ZOOM LINK), for this semester's first workshop. Historian Mátyás Mervay will introduce his paper, titled "Marrying Sun Yat-senism and Turanism. Leveraging Ancestral Nationalism in Interwar Sino-Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy.” The collapse of the Qing and Habsburg empires in the […]
Join the CUNY REEES Kruzhok at 12:30 PM on April 19, 2024 (on Zoom) with historian Christian Axboe Nielsen, who will speak about his new book, Mass Atrocities and the Police: A New History of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100,000 people were killed in the […]
This paper by scholar Elena Vasyanina delves into the influence of Russian propaganda narratives on public perception. Vasyanina presents findings from a content analysis of 70 Russian anti-war songs and 70 pro-war songs (Z-songs), all penned in 2022 and 2023, reflecting on or reacting to Kremlin propaganda narratives related to the war against Ukraine. The […]
