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Methodology and Theory

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Hard Times Create Strong Women: Transgressing Methodological Nationalism and Identity Politics

Andy Byford, Connor Doak, Stephen Hutchings

Responding to Russophonia: Toward a Planetary Approach

Akshya Saxena

On Vernacular English, or Where Language Lives

Interview With Akshya Saxena

Making the Hegemonic Language Vernacular

History

Galina Babak

Decentering or Recentering? On the Postimperial History of Russian Formalism

Oxana Monteiro

Rewriting Abai Kunanbaiev: Shklovsky, Translation, and Building Kazakh Soviet Literature

Zaal Andronikashvili

Decentering Europe from the Caucasus: Nikolai Marr and the Problem of Mapping Cultural Theory

Alexander Dmitriev

The Ruin as Foundation: An Archaeology of Synthesizing New Universalist Knowledge in a Postimperial Context

Alessandro Achilli

Ukrainian Formalism and Russophonia as Methods? Some Preliminary Observations, Proposals, and Doubts Regarding Possible Intersections

Archive

Galina Babak

Feliks Iakubovs’kyi on Viktor Shklovsky’s Ukrainian Subtext

Feliks Iakubovs’kyi

“Khokhlology” as a Form of Illiteracy

F[eliks] Iakubovs’kyi

“Khokhlology” as a Form of Illiteracy (Ukrainian original)

Newest Mythologies

Konstantin Mitroshenkov, Margarita Fedorova

(Im)potentialities of Weakness: Introduction to the Discussion of Julia Vaingurt’s “Soft Matter”

Jinyi Chu

Soft Matter, Soft Power

Sofya Khagi

Weak Subjectivity: Potencies and Failings

Ilya Kukulin

Cult of the Will and Its Discontents: A Moral Genealogy of Late Soviet Poetics of Weakness

Mark Lipovetsky

Notes About Weakness

Anton Svynarenko

The Unpredictable Queerness of Soft Matter

Book Reviews

Anahit Kartashyan

Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 318 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5036-3670-5.

Alexey Kozlov, Ilya Matveev

Татьяна Борисова. “Когда велит совесть”: Культурные истоки Судебной реформы 1864 года в России. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025. 584 с. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-4448-2590-7.

Mykola Hlibischuk

Kerstin S. Jobst, Oksana Nagornaia, and Kerstin von Lingen (Eds.), The Great War and the Anthropocene: Empire and Environment, Soldiers and Civilians on the Eastern Front (Leiden: Brill, 2024). 391 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-71011-5.

Andrey V. Ganin

Alistair S. Wright, Revolution and Civil War in North Russia: Karelia and the Murmansk Region, 1917–1920 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). 237 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3504-3401-1.

Samantha Lomb

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Structures of Weakness: Julia Vaingurt’s “Soft Matter”

Julia Vaingurt

Response to the Forum

Viktoriya Sukovata

Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller (Eds.), Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024). 316 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6077-7.

Marianne Kamp, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). 285 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7799-8.

Kostiantyn Moharychev

Юрій Радченко. Допоміжна поліція, місцева адміністрація, СД та Шоа на українсько-російсько-білоруському пограниччі (1941–1943) / літ. ред. Ольга Дячук, Сергій Лунін. Київ: Фенікс, 2024. 288 с. джерела та література. ISBN: 978-966-136-985-5.

Stepan Reshetnikov

Себастьен Альбертелли, Жюльен Блан, Лоран Дузу. История Сопротивления во Франции: 1940–1944 / Пер. с фр. Ю. В. Гусевой. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025. 424 с., илл. Источники и литература. ISBN: 978-5-4448-2705-5.

Alexander Fokin

Pietro A. Shakarian, Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025). 350 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07354-9.

Dimitri Filimonov

Birgit Beumers, Catherine Géry, and Eugénie Zvonkine (Eds.), Sexuality, Nudity and the Body in Soviet Cinema (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025). 254 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-61532-5.

Daria Reznyk

Ian Garner and Taras Kuzio (Eds.), Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine (Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2025). 350 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8382-2015-4.

Cameron Timothy Melendez

Kevin M. Schultz, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025). 279 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-226-82436-9.

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