Culture

Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination by Keith Livers is part of a recent cast of plucky new texts that blur the boundaries between academia and popular culture [...]

While I was still too young to understand, I can clearly remember Vladimir Vysotsky’s deep, hoarse voice bellowing in passionate frustration through my parents’ old Soviet cassette tapes. He and [...]

Raz Segal’s Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945 draws light to an under-researched tragedy and contextualizes the violence committed in Europe against [...]

While reading the introduction to Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit, I have come to the conclusion that if the term “woke” existed and could have been applicable to 18th century Russia, this [...]

On 14 May of this year, amidst border closures and new world of both self and geographic isolation, the Baltic States took the then unprecedented step of re-opening their borders, creating the [...]

Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird is not an easy watch. From the very first scene – where a pet mink is burnt alive – the young, Jewish protagonist (Petr Kotlár) is faced with [...]

By analysing two classic Yugoslavian movies, Natalija Stepanović examines images of the Roma community in European culture.

An Ode to Osh? Ryan Schweitzer describes the cultural importance of Uzbekistan's most famous rice dish.

When in 2008 the interim Kosovo government declared unilaterally its independence from Serbia, ethnic Serbs became de facto the biggest minority group in the youngest country of Europe. Many had [...]

During some recent wanderings on the internet, I came across a most particular subreddit: “Tartaria”. At first, I thought the subreddit was dedicated to some fantasy or steampunk fictional world, [...]