By Miruna Cioc, Harvard College 

By Ishaan Barrett, Columbia College, Columbia University

By Meera Patel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

By Orion Fisher, Carleton College

By Ava Lyon-Sereno, Barnard College, Columbia University

By Spencer Browning, University of California, Berkeley

By Eamon Maloney, Georgetown University

By John Salgado, Baylor University

By Maria Marcelino, University of California, Berkeley

By Kieran Denny, Carleton University

By Sarah Grace Seggerman

In this piece, Seggerman argues that Czech theaters shifted public opinion in favor of the Velvet Revolution, demonstrated the weakness of the regime, and provided the revolutionaries a forum in which to organize.

By Natalie Beltran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

By Stan Vassilenko

This article examines how filmmakers communicated their moral concerns surrounding materialism through their movies while maintaining the party line.

By Nicole Juzaitis

In this paper, Juzaitis argues that truth in post-Soviet literature is a multi-layered and evolving construct shaped by the interplay of subjective memory, emotional experience, and historical fact.

By Tai Halpern

Responding to an op-ed by Jack Greenspan, Halpern argues that the United States should not underestimate the serious nuclear threat that Russia poses.

By Pradz Sapre

An exploration of one of Dostoevsky’s classics, The Double.

Paata Kaloiani

How have two leaders, Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Irakli Kobakhidze in Georgia, used conspiracy theories to further their political goals?

By Jack Greenspan

Viktor Orban’s main challenger, Peter Magyar of the Tisza Party, has staked out a firmly anti-Orban stance. Observers, however, should not be fooled: Magyar is also a conservative.

By Varvara Lyapneva

The West’s preference for sending aid to the Baltics over the Balkans manifested itself in disparate outcomes, most notably in internet access.

By Luke Carter