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The second issue of Journeys into the Past builds on the first, which featured writing from students in a course on Russia in war and revolution.  The […]

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John Singelton Copley, Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens, 1770-72. By Jacob Bruggeman Devotees to the study of history are quickly becoming a bygone breed. In […]

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Note:  Students in Stephen Norris’s Spring 2017 class, Introduction to Russian and Eurasian Studies, participated in a final role-playing exercise that asked them to plan […]

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Note:  Students in Dr. Stephen Norris’s Spring 2017 class, Introduction to Russian and Eurasian Studies, read Boris Dralyuk’s recent edited collection of poems from the […]

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Note:  On February 2, 2017, students in Stephen Norris’s Spring 2017 Introduction to Russian Studies course engaged in a role-playing exercise that aimed to replicate […]

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Mark D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). 388. Review by Jacob Bruggeman Mark D. Steinberg’s new book, The Russian Revolution, […]

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The first issue of Journeys into the Past features eleven essays, four historical journeys, and one opinion piece (in a section entitled “Past and Present”).  We will […]

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By Jake Hensh Блок, Александр. Двенадцать. Blok, Alexander. The Twelve. Oxford : Miami Special Collections, 1918. Throughout the Havighurst Colloquium series on “Russia in War […]

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By Emily Oneschuk The following documents were the basis for this paper and can be found in the De Saint Rat collection of the Havighurst […]

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Fig. 1, Album of Revolutionary Russia Cover. By Riley Kane DK265.15.A43 1919 Al’bom revoliuitsionnoi Rossii = Album of Revolutionary Russia. [New York] : Russian Socialist […]

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