Vilna, and Minsk provinces during WWI (1915, 1916); and during the Russian civil war. Jews in Krakow and Vilna in Poland experienced pogroms in 1918 and 1919, respectively. Eugene M. Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad
Hundreds of police officers kept the peace at Germany’s most famous memorial to Soviet soldiers on the day Russia marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet tradition. Because Russia has employed symbols of th...
Will the end of the war be followed by a liberalization of political life? (Is this possible at all?) Will the current pro-war and anti-war volunteerism serve as the basis for an industrious, widespread civil society? Will there be a change of elites? Russia’s transformation into a ...
It was in a documentary some time after 9/11 where an Israeli military security expert told he had given a talk for an American agency (IIRC, the CIA) and there met their expert for the Egyptian Military. The man could not read Arabic. The Israeli was baffled. ...
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I combined the traditional ethnographic approach with the documentary approach by taking pictures in the interviewees’ homes and audio-recording my interviews (see Gobo 29). My photographs, as well as prosodic patterns, instances of laughter, and changes of the speech rhythm and pauses captured ...
but rather the supranational financial-intelligence-military architecture that represented the globally extended British Empire that had orchestrated the dismemberment of Russia during the Crimean War, the USA during the Civil War and China during two Opium Wars. This was and is the ...
The evolution of Protyah’s artistic trajectory took him from playful absurdism to politicized documentary storytelling, underscoring an approach to sound and cinema as tools for reflection and resistance, gaining a particular urgency under the condition of war. Finally, Pavel Niakhayeu’s article (...
In an interview with Yuri Dud last year, Verzilov admitted that he had originally traveled to Ukraine as a documentary filmmaker, but now he was at the front “as a military man.” “Verzilov: Inside [the] War,” vDud, 5 October 2023. In Russian, with English subtitles Many of the ...
The most persistent and inventive critic of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, Navalny has been in prison for more than two years but gained new visibility this spring when a documentary about him won an Academy Award. Article content A lawyer by training, he first came to note by publishing investiga...