Five Dartmouth students traveled to Harvard on April 6th 2025 to compete in the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian. Two students won prizes for their participation. Congratulations to our winners and participants!
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The Department hosted director Michael Lockshin for discussion after a screening of his new film adaptation of Bulgarov's novel the Master and Margarita where he discussed the difficulties and challenges faced adapting such a complex novel.
[more]Joshua Rubenstein is an award-winning independent scholar of literature and history, an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, and a life-long activist (Amnesty International) with a specialty in Russian and Soviet dissidents and prisoners of conscience. He is the author or editor of a number of path-breaking books on Soviet and Soviet-Jewish history. In this talk, he discusses his 2016 book The Last Days of Stalin, when the Soviet Union was inundated with a "tsunami of anti-Semitism."
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More than 1,000 days into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, resistance to the war still buzzes across Dartmouth. Spearheading these efforts are two Ukrainian professors, Victoria Somoff, associate professor in the recently renamed East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies department, and Lada Kolomiyets, visiting professor, at Dartmouth.
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On October 30th a group of Dartmouth students gathered in Reed Hall to write letters to political prisoners in Russia supported by faculty of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies. Inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Vladimir Kara-Murza, recently released, who recommended letter writing as a means to bolster the spirits of those incarcerated for their political beliefs.
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