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Culture and History
Arts & Creative Writing
Contents
Revolution from the Bandstand
Thomas Lyons, Wesleyan University
Area of Effect: Memory & Myth of Chernobyl in Video Games
Sharon Sun, Cornell University
Remembering Babyn Yar: Collective Memory in the Face of
Repression and Denial
Aitan Avgar, Cornell University
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists:
Ukraine’s Dark Past
Saba Shukvani, New York University
Reading Bygone Time in Lermontov’s “Нет, не тебя так пылко я
люблю”
Ava Young-Stoner, Columbia University
On Animals On Men
Nini Sikharulidze, Harvard University
Why I Don’t Know the Word for Uncle: The Life and Death of the Croatian Diaspora in Western Montana
Will Carraway, Emory University
Politics
Protracted Aggression in Nagorno-Karabakh: From War
Crimes in 2020 to Ethnic Cleansing
Georgie Hallbach, University of California, Berkeley
Fueling Identity: Commodifying Natural Resources in the
Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
Ivana Prokopenko, University of California, Los Angeles
Women in Government in Central Asia: Successes and
Limitation of Gender Quotas
Eleanor Pugh, Michigan State University
Language as Power: Hungarian Language Policy and
Education in Romania
Sophia Gill, University of Pittsburgh
Strategic Power-Sharing and Compromises: Political Lessons
from Poland’s 1989 Transition
Gabrielle Taichman, University of Michigan
Photography
Výstaviště
Samantha Batson, McGill University
Kyrgyzstan
Ava Young-Stoner, Columbia University
Rita, Vadik and Ozzie and I
Maya Schkolnik, Columbia University