Russian Society
Women’s Issues: Sexual Harrassment- Russian judge dismisses woman’s harrassment charge saying that if it weren’t for harassment the human race would not propogate. My impressions as well as what Russians say about the issue.
Russian Opinion of Condaleeza Rice: Russian media’s hillarious and outrageous belief that Condaleeza’s anti-Russian stance is because of sexual frustration.
Russian Politics
Putin’s Language Power in Politics: Putin’s eloquence in Russian, fluency in German, speeches in French and Tatar. Why language can make a leader seem so great.
Georgia
Georgia the country: land of wine, saints and cavalrymen: John Steinbeck’s impressions of the country
Communism
What has the Communist Revolution done for you lately?: In America we think that communism is an absolute evil. But here are some of the good things that communism did for Russia
The ‘Sex Question’ Glass Floweth O’er: Alexandra Kollontai’s theories about how sex should be for true Bolsheviks; the sexual act would be like satisfying one’s thirst by ‘drinking a glass of water’.
The Free Love Movement of the Bolsheviks: Soviet Woodstock, marriage and gender roles in the early years after the Revolution
The Limits of Liberation: Soviet Family Policy in the NEP era, the problems with divorce, stray children, abortion and prostitution.
Russian Language
- The Word’s Worth; Weekly bread for the Russophile– My obsession with a brilliant column in the Moscow Times by Michele Berdy, about the language and the culture. Some of the articles: July 11, 2008: ‘Approve That’- approving visas, ‘All time is relative’-idioms about time Taking the Tractor to Church’- the peasant, ‘Avoiding Profanity’, ‘It’s Awkward in Everyone’s Language’-expressing condolences in Russian International Women’s Day, 8 March Valentines Day: Love words in Russian
Culinary Linguistics: Origins of Russian Food and the Words describing it
Russian Phonetics Experiment: Can learner’s of Russian as a second language identify native and non-native accent in Russian?
Results of Above Phonetics Experiment: Why identifying native and non-native in Russian is problematic. Do speakers of Russian from satellite USSR countries have an accent or not?
Russian Culture
The Russian New Year in Post Cards: Depictions of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden
Russian and Ukrainian Christmas Carols:
- Literature
A Comparison of Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’ to the Fall of Adam: A paper for one of my literature classes
- Mythology
Etymology and Slavic Mythology: Words in the Russian lexicon connected with the old Pagan myths: Явь, Ярко, народ, волос
Slavic Creation Myth: Songs of Gamayun
My Experiences and Projects
My photography: My obsession with Russia begins in the details
True Russophilia: 10 reasons why I love Russia
