Publications

Understanding China’s directive to use historical Chinese names for territories in Russia’s Far East, highlighting geopolitical tensions and the significance of names in border areas. 

This blog focuses on how the same way of looking at Russian history has also obscured the Russian regions, primarily Siberia, but also the Russian North and the Urals 

  The field of Russian history in the United States was transplanted from Russia, and specifically from V.O. Kliuchevskii’s idea of Russian history. 

 The Jordan Center stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  

This is Part I in a two-part series. 

 The Jordan Center stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

This is Part II in a two-part series. 

This blog lays out how scholars of Russia need to break their addiction to the Russian state and discusses how to tell history more independently. 

 The world is now confronted with a new kind of genocide: one that does  not feel the need to hide. This is a 21st century genocide, where  Russian authors publish plans for genocide while at the same time  accusing the Ukrainians of committing the genocide themselves. 

The following article contains a Russian plan for the genocide of  Ukraine. It was published by the state-run news agency RIA Novosti,  whose works are often picked up by various media outlets. 

 In the days and weeks following Russia’s February 2022 invasion and military occupation of Ukraine, scholars with expertise on the region weighed in on the ongoing crisis. Their meditations, insights, and professional experiences are collected here as the “Ukrainian Dispatches.”