...Leah Feldman This article seeks to dislocate Orientalism from its Anglo-French origin by investigating the problem of its theorization in the context of the Russian Empire. I frame Russian Orientalism through the representation of the Caucasus in the Russian imagination as a border space between...

...Charles Bernstein Abstract St. Petersburg new media artist, writer, literary scholar, and translator (PhD in literary theory from Herzen State University) Natalia Fedorova published this interview with Bernstein in Russian in Translit (Moscow), a key journal of innovative poetics, in 2013...

...Olga V. Solovieva This essay discusses Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl as a complicated figuration of the Russian and Soviet literary traditions. A comparison is drawn with the Japanese documentary Little Voices from Fukushima (2015) by the antinuclear activist Hitomi Kamanaka...

...Anita Starosta Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, translator, and “patriarch of Bu-Ba-Bu” Yuri Andrukhovych shares his perspectives on contemporary European, Russian, and Ukrainian cultures and politics, and on the current situation of writers working in minor languages in this part of the world...

...Miglena Nikolchina This essay addresses the mostly long-distance friendship between French philosopher Louis Althusser and Russian Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili as a vantage point for exploring the question why, by the end of the 1960s, critical and projective thinking in the West...

...Eric Cheyfitz This essay analyzes the current historical moment in the United States, where, it argues, ideology has been displaced in the public sphere by what the essay defines as Disinformation . The term itself is Russian in origin, coined in 1949. While the essay retains disinformation ’s...

..., and other languages. Only a few internees had a Moscow experience and read or quoted Lenin in Russian. This essay presents the camps as a moment of radical translation. It was the crucial presumption of this translation that there could be nobody but Lenin for the people in the camps—or perhaps, to put...

... the language and art of Russian orientalism as it generated a vision of Soviet modernity in the former imperial territories. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Muslim communism Russian orientalism Soviet propaganda translating communism postcolonial Red Jihad: Translating Communism...

... of resistance or nationalist anti‐eurocentrism. Though their work is little known except to scholars in Slavic Studies, in the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 Soviet Orientologists laid the foundations for the critique of Western Orientalism that would be introduced to the West many years later...

... poetry” as one where the poet assumes the linguistic strategies of the language learner. The essay also revisits the argument by the Russian Formalist critics that the language of poetry resembles a foreign language. When we speak of puns we usually think of single words (homophones, homographs...

...Leah Feldman Abstract This essay addresses how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conditions of social, political, and economic precarity that followed gave rise to intertwining strands of global New Right thought. Taking up the Russian Right's revanchist-revolutionary vision of neo...

...Leah Feldman; Aamir R. Mufti Abstract “The Returns of Fascism” addresses the emergence of New Right political culture on a global scale, attending to the intersections in US, European, Russian, and Indian New Right movements and their relation to the history of fascisms and late capitalist thought...

... or another. —René Descartes Is there such a thing as Russian philosophy? Probably, though for the most part it is neither Russian nor philosophy, if we take the latter to mean a set of technical operations for discerning rational truth. Indeed, an evening with its intelligentsia...

... of the East, convened in the Azerbaijani city of Baku, Sep- tember 1–8, 1920. At this first mass meeting of representatives of West- ern European, US, and Russian Communist Parties with Communist and nonparty delegates from Azerbaijan to India and China, members of the Communist International pledged...

... in Eastern Europe (New York: Crown, 2013). boundary 2 41:1 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2409712 © 2014 by Duke University Press 154 boundary 2 / Spring 2014 and outside of the country, Russian experts use this term routinely. But is it true that Russia’s multiple problems are determined by the Soviet...

... is the only means of value exchange. The poet exposes “free gifts” (here, language itself exposes the lies, if we care to examine it) as traps. Hence the Russian saying, “free cheese is found only in a mousetrap.” Parodying various aspects of political, social, economic, and business life, Bernstein does...

... literature from UCLA. He works on twentieth- century American and Russian literature and translation studies. He Ning is currently associate professor of German literature at Beijing Language and Culture University. She received her doctorate in German language and litera- ture from Peking University. Her...

... Director David Cronenberg’s most recent film, Eastern Promises (2007), transpires amidst the sound and fury of clashing cultures in today’s London. The film begins by introducing three bloodied bodies in succes- sion: Soyka, a captain in the Russian organized crime syndicate vory v...

... certainly challenges “the East-West paradigm”—which lends the book its subtitle. This paradigm has a long history, and challenges to it are just as extensive. But because most critiques operate within this paradigm, a challenge must, like the Russian nesting doll, delve into inner layers that approach...

... journal was the second-­most influen- tial journal of ideas during the 1920s. Qu took the position that China’s writ- ten language, the Han graphemes or logographs, or hanzi obscured what social science logos clarified with scientific precision. Even before encountering August Bebel or Russian...