Tag Archives: Russia
The Battle of Sitka
At the turn of the 19th century, Russia was a rising power in North America, with an empire that extended across the Bering Sea, through the Aleutians and Kodiak Island, and down the Alaskan panhandle. The objective was to corner … Continue reading
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Tagged Political Science department, Russia, U.S. history
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Honors for Eaton
Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton has won honors for her 2023 book German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell University Press). The book offers a deep exploration of this port city on the Baltic Sea—the … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, History Department, Russia
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How Königsberg Became Kaliningrad
German Blood, Slavic Soil (Cornell University Press, 2023), a new book by Boston College Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton, reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, 20th-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and … Continue reading
Catherine the Great, a Dutch Golden Age masterpiece, and a shipwreck
In 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings—including The Nursery by Rembrandt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged art, nonfiction, Political Science department, Russia
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Writings from Maxim D. Shrayer
BC Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer writes about his foray into the labyrinth of Russian bureaucracy in the essay “A Return to Kafka” for Tablet, a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastern/Slavic/German Studies Department, Russia
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A Russian Immigrant
The lives of immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation. In his new work, A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas (Cherry Orchard Books, 2019), Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer captures those feelings in the story of … Continue reading
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Tagged immigration, Jewish, Russia, Slavic and Eastern Languages Dept
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Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Professor Boris Lanin of the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow will present “Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Why Do Russian Secondary School Students Read and Study Them?” on Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. in Lyons Hall, room 207. A scholar of Russian-Jewish … Continue reading
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Tagged literature, Russia, Slavic and Eastern Languages Dept
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Doctor Levitin
A major work of late 20th-century Russian and Jewish literature, Doctor Levitin, a novel depicting the experience of the Jewish exodus from the former USSR, has been published in English. BC professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer oversaw … Continue reading
What is the future of Jews in Russia?
Monica Osborne, a scholar of Jewish literature and culture, writes for the Jewish Journal about Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer’s latest book, With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today’s Russia. For the book, Shrayer returned to his homeland … Continue reading
Shrayer interview
Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer was interviewed by Jewish Telegraphic Agency about his recent book, With or Without You: The Prospect for Today’s Jews in Russia (Academic Studies Press, 2017). Part historical and cultural investigation, and … Continue reading
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