Professor Cadiot will present findings from her book, in which she explores the construction of socialist property as a juridical category, the economic landscape and practices in the Soviet Union, especially after the Second World War, and the work of law enforcement agencies. The book is based on archives from the Soviet State, Communist Party, Procuracy and Supreme court in…

Please join the Harriman Institute for a book talk with Lynn Garafola, author of La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern (Oxford University Press, 2022), moderated by Valentina Izmirlieva, Director of the Harriman Institute. La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet’s premier female choreographer, Bronislava Nijinska. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive…