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Russia’s Worlds: The Second World War and the Postwar Settlement

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University) and Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison). BIOGRAPHIES Michael David-Fox is a…

“Red and Brown”: Left-Patriotism in Russia, its Ideology and Social Base, 1993-2021

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97955477217.  In the brief civil war that followed the collapse of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin’s pro-Western government was opposed by a strange coalition that the neoliberal media called “the communofascists” or “the red- and-browns.” These clichés were part of a campaign to discredit and de-humanize the resistance to the radical…

Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations (with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics)

In this talk, Professor Zhuravskaya will discuss her forthcoming paper “Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations”, co-authored with Antonela Miho and Alexandra Jarotschkin. In this paper the scholars study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical setting, which combines exogenous group exposure with no control over how and whether the representatives of different groups interact. Stalin’s…