Vestnik

These articles were all published as part of Vestnik, a scholarly journal for student research concerning all aspects of the Eurasian space. The journal, run by SRAS, accepts student research on any subject related to this geographic area from any historical period. The work is published across the SRAS Family of Sites, which itself covers a wide range of subjects. The works below cover specifically topics related to museums, art, theater, and literature.

The Call for Papers and other information about the journal can be found on GeoHistory. Any interested students, or professors interesting in incorporating student publication into capstone projects, are encouraged to contact us.

September 9, 2013

The Paradoxes of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can a poet influence his own legacy after his death? Consider the power of an individual’s era, homeland, contemporaries, and critical reception as additional deciding factors toward establishing a legacy. With several sources of interpretation, it is inevitable for multiple legacies of a person to emerge in the wake of a singular event; it can […]

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The Control of Semantic Space: Bulgakov’s Challenge of the Stalinist Vision

How and Why Did the Focus of Samizdat Shift Following the End of the Khrushchev Thaw?

Rational Perversions of Love in The Brothers Karamazov: Spiritually Fruitless, yet Thematically Useful

Polyphony in Isaac Levitan’s Landscapes

Dostoevsky’s The Meek One: A Rebellious Reading

Dueling as a Commentary on Gambling and Risk Taking

Grutas Park and the Fate of Soviet Statuary in Lithuania

Кем Быть: Whom Shall I Be: Children’s Literature; A Reflection on the Uncertainties of the Early Soviet Pedagogical Experimentation

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