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Katherine Verdery with Securitate agent (photo from her file). By: Victoria Carvalho Salles, Elizabeth Spring, and Brandon Yang Note: This is the third installment in our ongoing “Five Questions with” series where students enrolled in the Spring 2019 Havighurst Center for … Continue reading
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John Steinbeck during his 1963 Visit to the USSR By August Hagemann On Friday, March 8th, Miami University’s Havighurst Center hosted Dr. Theofanis Stavrou of the University of Minnesota. Rather than a purely academic lecture, Stavrou sought to situate his … Continue reading
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Bely’s Drawing of Senator Ableukov. Source: http://petersburg.berkeley.edu/bely/characters.html. By Avery Comar Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg (1913), in both language and content, is very much engaged in conversation with Russian literature that preceded it. The interaction of Bely’s novel with its realist predecessors … Continue reading
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By Patrick Newell While much of the focus on Russian influence in the United States has been pointed at bots, trolls, and fake news, Miami students heard a different and perhaps equally important take on media effects from Dr. Megan … Continue reading
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By Izzy Tice A sign of blessing and grace, crossing oneself is one of the most important acts of the Christian religion, demonstrating faith and belief in God by means of prayer. In Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, Anna’s gesture … Continue reading
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Leonid Volkov at Miami University. By August Hagemann On February 27th, Miami University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies hosted Leonid Volkov, a central figure in the Russian opposition, and Alexey Navalny’s chief of staff in his recent presidential … Continue reading
