Editors
Issue 1/2026
Methodology and Theory
Andy Byford, Connor Doak, Stephen Hutchings
Responding to Russophonia: Toward a Planetary Approach
Forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories: Part IV”
Akshya Saxena
On Vernacular English, or Where Language Lives
Forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories: Part IV”
Interview With Akshya Saxena
Making the Hegemonic Language Vernacular
Forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories: Part IV”
History
Galina Babak
Decentering or Recentering? On the Postimperial History of Russian Formalism
Forum “Formalism: Rusian or Russian?”
Oxana Monteiro
Rewriting Abai Kunanbaiev: Shklovsky, Translation, and Building Kazakh Soviet Literature
Forum “Formalism: Rusian or Russian?”
Zaal Andronikashvili
Decentering Europe from the Caucasus: Nikolai Marr and the Problem of Mapping Cultural Theory
Forum “Formalism: Rusian or Russian?”
Alexander Dmitriev
The Ruin as Foundation: An Archaeology of Synthesizing New Universalist Knowledge in a Postimperial Context
Archive
Newest Mythologies
Konstantin Mitroshenkov, Margarita Fedorova
(Im)potentialities of Weakness: Introduction to the Discussion of Julia Vaingurt’s “Soft Matter”
Forum “The Power of Soft Matter”
Jinyi Chu
Soft Matter, Soft Power
Forum “The Power of Soft Matter”
Sofya Khagi
Weak Subjectivity: Potencies and Failings
Forum “The Power of Soft Matter”
Ilya Kukulin
Cult of the Will and Its Discontents: A Moral Genealogy of Late Soviet Poetics of Weakness
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

