This dissertation examines the relationship between Muscovite Russia and Denmark-Norway in the first half of the seventeenth century through the lens of three dynastic marriage projects. The first project in 1601-2 consisted of a match between Ksenia Godunova, the daughter of Ts…
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This dissertation explores two intertwined topics of the Russian elites’ emotional culture at the turn of the 19th century and its role in the failed military revolution in December 1825. The unusual and tragic outcome of Russia’s first revolutionary attempt has long puzzled sch…
UNESCO’s Index Translationum consistently ranks William Shakespeare among its top ten most-translated authors, which means that many of the people experiencing Shakespeare’s work are seeing it through an additional layer of interpretation. How different are these translations fr…
This paper explores the liminality of Korean peasants and migrants in the Amur and Ussuri region by examining their socioeconomic conditions, legal jurisdictions, and individual subjectivity under Joseon Korea, Qing China, and Tsarist Russia between the 1860s-1897. In this paper…
Stalin’s repression of Ukrainian Yiddish writers and intellectuals is the least studied dimension of the anti-Semitic campaigns of his final years. This dissertation explores the activity of Ukrainian Jewish intellectuals, the process of their repression and fabrication of cases…
According to Galina Krinitskaya, most acutely, the Russian national idea "manifested itself inRussian public thought and literature, through which the historical forecast of the future worldorder, and the role of Russia in this process, was revealed." The 1917 Revolution and the…
Mikhail Bulgakov’s mystifying relationship with the Soviet government, and with Joseph Stalin in particular, has long been understood to be a result of the dictator’s aesthetic appreciation for the writer’s early work. In an era defined by Stalin’s Great Terror, Bulgakov escaped…
This dissertation examines 20th-century Turkic Latinization, the process by which Turkic language reformers replaced the Perso-Arabic alphabet with the Latin-based New Turkish Alphabet, from a transnational perspective. Focusing on the Turkish and Soviet Azerbaijani cases, my wo…
This dissertation charts an intellectual genealogy of internationalist visions of the reorganization of the imperial Russian space that were frustrated and foreclosed by the emergence of the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1922, surviving and continuing to develop in exile communi…
The Kremlin’s strategy toward the internet has evolved markedly over the past decade, leading to the adoption of a variety of legislative and regulatory measures designed to exert increased control over the Russian internet. This paper analyzes the internet control strategies em…
This dissertation chronicles the discourse of sincerity in state published Soviet Russian literature and criticism from Stalin’s death in 1953 to 1970. It presents a means of reading sincerity as a literary device in fiction and poetry that corresponds to an understanding of sin…
The titular councilor plays a special role in Russian literature. Some of the most celebrated works of nineteenth-century Russian authors focus on characters who hold this particular rank within the Russian bureaucratic system of social classification called the Table of Ranks. …
This dissertation explores the ethical and aesthetic stakes of readers’ judgments by analyzing mock trials of literary characters that were performed in Soviet Russia and abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. Literary trials were part of a larger craze for public mock trials in the dec…
This dissertation examines narrative poems (poemy) written in commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of the October Revolution by Nikolai Aseev and Vladimir Mayakovsky. These poets, experimenting with the theory of factography (faktografiia) advanced in 1927 by the Left Front…
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their characteristics, and how it contributes to the p…
This current work focuses on death and “mask” motifs in Konstantin Vaginov’s novels Kozlinaia pesnʹ (The Goat Song; 1926), Trudy i dni Svistonova (The Works and Days of Svistonov; 1929), and Bambochada (Bambocciada; 1929-30) by engaging with Mikhail Bakhtin’s discussion of the r…
This dissertation examines the emergence of the Qājār monarchy of Iran (1786 – 1925) from the vantage point of the Caspian Sea. It examines the ways in which eighteenth-century autonomous rulers of northern Iran harnessed the resources and wealth of the Caspian littoral to conso…
Modern Russian military maps may comprise any combination of over 1,000 map symbols and 3,000 Russian terms. These symbols and terms identify tangible aspects such as locations, unit/equipment type, numbers, etc., but some symbols, and groupings of symbols, can also denote more …
The two late-romantic operas Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák and The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov are based on fairy tales, and combine romance, fantasy, and drama. Their plots develop in parallel universes and have astonishing similarities. However, the music and drama deve…