The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
Five researchers from the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania and other international research institutions investigate the political police management of special agents and informers with the MGB/KGB, as well as the identities and experiences of these collaborators.
Mythologized “Old Tbilisi” is the centerpiece of an ever-expanding business of heritage tourism that both breaks from and builds upon Soviet narrative precedents.
Marijeta Bozovic argues that contemporary Russian-language poets seek in the legacies of historical avant-gardes an undetonated alternative to both the neoliberal global present and to the discredited institutionalized left of the Communist Party.
Over four sessions we will work with a beautiful, highly detailed plan of Odesa/Odessa published in 1894. We will study the map’s structure and content and go through the process of pulling it apart (and putting it back together again).
Dr. Andrei Yakovlev will discuss the composition of Russia's ruling coalition and the incentives of its main elite groups — senior officials, oligarchs, and top officers of the security services.