Call for manuscripts for the new book series “Ukrainian Voices” published by ibidem-Verlag & distributed by Columbia University Press
March 30, 2019 1 min. read

https://www.ibidem.eu/en/reihen/gesellschaft-politik/ukrainian-voices.html The book series “Ukrainian Voices” publishes English- and German-language monographs, edited volumes, document collections and anthologies of articles authored and composed by Ukrainian politicians, intellectuals, activists, officials, researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, and diplomats. The series’ aim is to introduce Western and other audiences to Ukrainian explorations and interpretations of historic and current domestic as well […]

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Cargo 200: Alexei Balabanov’s Message About the Soviet Union
June 18, 2011 11 min. read

I recently watched the famous Russian director Alexei Balabanov’s 2007 movie Cargo 200 (or Gruz 200 in Russian). This blog entry is an attempt to explore and uncover the director’s message behind his artistic choice of making a visually, morally and emotionally poignant – if not shockingly grotesque – movie about the mid-80s in the […]

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Taxi Blues and Luna Park, Movies That Take Us Back To The Future
April 3, 2011 10 min. read

I recently watched two relatively old Soviet/Russian movies back to back, Taxi Blues and Luna Park, made by the famous Russian director Pavel Lungin, both produced in the early 1990s. Taxi Blues (1990) and Luna Park (1991) are critically acclaimed films from the late Soviet or early post-Soviet period, depending on how one chooses to […]

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