The Harriman Review
The Harriman Review, the Institute's quarterly survey, boasts an international roster of scholars writing on issues and new publications in the various fields represented by the Institute. Past contributors include Alexander Cooley, Padma Desai, Nina Khrushcheva, David Marples, Alexander J. Motyl, V.O. Pechatnov, Frank E. Sysyn, Rajan Menon, Oleg Rumyantsev, Roman Szporluk, Mark von Hagen, Edward Walker. Recent issues have analyzed Averell Harriman’s mission to Moscow, making use of the new materials that have become available both in the former Soviet Union and the West; the ethno-nationalist mythology in the Soviet party-state apparatus; and the architecture of St. Petersburg through the photographs of William Brumfield. A special double issue on Ukraine in the 20th century considers such diverse issues as the Famine of 1932-33, politics and Orthodoxy in independent Ukraine, and the 2004 presidential elections as seen through the eyes of Columbia students who were there as official observers.
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Studies of the Harriman Institute
The Institute sponsors the Studies of the Harriman Institute in the belief that their publication contributes to scholarly research and public understanding. In this way the Institute, while not necessarily endorsing their conclusions, is pleased to make available the results of some of the research conducted under its auspices. The first titles in the series, Studies of the Russian Institute (predecessor to Studies of the Harriman Institute) appeared in 1953 — pioneering works by Institute professors Abram Bergson and Ernest J. Simmons, as well as the first book by one of the Institute’s early PhD graduates, Edward J. Brown. Today more than 125 titles authored by Institute faculty, visiting scholars, fellows, and alumni have appeared under the Institute’s two imprints. Authors must have some Institute affiliation, past or present, in order to submit their works for inclusion in the series. After approval by the Publications Committee, the books are placed with a wide array of university and scholarly presses. Please contact Publications Editor Ronald Meyer for more information: rm56@columbia.edu.
RECENT TITLES (2001-06)
Kirsten Blythe Painter, Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism (Stanford University Press, 2006).
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Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny & Ludmilla Trigos (eds.), Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness(Northwestern University Press, forthcoming, April 2006).
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Leopold H. Haimson, Russia’s Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917. Two Essays (Columbia University Press, 2005).
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Bradley F. Abrams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism (Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004).
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Ernest Zitser, The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great (Cornell University Press, 2004).
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Diana Greene, Reinventing Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
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Deborah A. Martinsen, Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars and Narrative Exposure (Ohio State University Press, 2003).
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Paul Bushkovitch, Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
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Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, Valentin Serov: Portraits of Russia’s Silver Age (Northwestern University Press, 2001).
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Ulbandus
Produced under the auspices of the Slavic Department at Columbia University, Ulbandus is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to refreshing, adventurous, and provocative work on topics in Slavic literatures and cultures. We welcome submissions from faculty, graduate students and independent scholars in any field, even superficially unrelated ones. Though faculty members sit on the advisory board, the production, editing, and management of Ulbandus is carried out entirely by the graduate students in the Columbia Slavic Department. Issue number 9, “Men of the Sixties,” will be published Fall 2005. Issue 8 (2004), “Fruits of Evil,” is now available. Please visit the Ulbandus website for more information: www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/ulbandus/.
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The Birch
With one of the oldest Slavic languages departments in America, Columbia University is home to hundreds of undergraduate students who possess a keen interest in Russian and Slavic studies. The Birch, which derives its name from the national tree of Russia, acts as a forum for undergraduate students to publish both creative work and critical commentary regarding Slavic politics, art and literature. Founded in January of 2005, the journal allows undergraduates with an interest in Slavic studies to communicate with others who share their interest. To read the inaugural issue, published in Spring 2005, go The Birch website: http://thebirchonline.org/about.html.
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Sources and Translations Series of the Harriman Institute
The Institute sponsors the Sources and Translations Series in the belief that important works of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history, literature, and criticism, as well as memoirs and other source materials not readily available before (or available only in incomplete or inadequate form), should be made accessible to specialists and a general reading audience — either in skillful English translations or, when the occasions warrant, in the original languages. It is hoped that such publications will contribute to a knowledge and understanding of Russian history and culture, as well as to an enhanced respect for the craft of translation. The most recent title in the series is the translation of Vsevolod Ivanov’s ,Fertility and Other Stories, translated and edited by Frank J. Miller and Valentina G. Brougher (Northwestern University Press, 1998), http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1547-6.
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Intermarium
Intermarium provides an electronic medium for noteworthy scholarship and provocative thinking about the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe following World War II. The journal is meant to broaden the discourse on aspects of national histories that are undergoing change thanks to the availability of new documentation from recently opened archives. Its name, Intermarium, reflects East Central Europe's geographic location between the seas: Baltic, Adriatic and Black.The editors' purpose is to facilitate interaction between scholarly communities by making research, essays, commentaries, documents, and reviews from the region available in English. It is a project of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Columbia University's East Central European Center. To access issues, go to the journal’s website: www.sipa.columbia.edu/ece/newintermar.html.
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The Russia Project
The Russia Project
Phase II: The New Post-Transitional Russian Identity: How Western is Russian Westernization?
From September 2003 through January 2006, Professor Nina Khrushcheva continued her study group project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York following Phase I of the project, "Lessons of Transition." In phase II, the project (shared between three institutions, New School's WPI and the Graduate Program in International Affairs, and The Harriman Institute at Columbia University) examines the contours of the current national identity of Russians, considering how "western" post-socialist Russia really is or could ever be. How lasting are its westward aspirations? How effectively will the new Russian state bridge the gap between the domestic and the international, the individual and the collective, the past and the future? The Identity project focuses on the dynamic relationship between current events and Russia's historical legacy and its impact on this emerging identity.
Project participants--some 30 experts and political advisors in the field of Russian studies as well as in politics, economics and culture--offer their knowledge and opinions to assess the Russian transition. They include Deana Arsenian (Carnegie Corporation of New York); Rose Brady (Business Week); Robert Cottrell (The Economist); Michael Cohen (New School University); Mark von Hagen (Harriman Institute at Columbia University); Fiona Hill (Brookings Institution); Stephen Holmes (N. Y. U. School of Law); Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University); Leon Sigal (Social Science Research Council); Frederick Starr (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University); Celeste Wallander (Center for Strategic and International Studies); and others.
To learn more about the project, please see: http://worldpolicy.org/projects/russia/.
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- WPI Project Report prepared by Nina L. Kruschcheva and Edward J. Hancox (January 2006)
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