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Faculty Profile: Kevin Platt

A Soviet Era Mosaic Mural, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Upcoming Events

February
18

Russian Tea - EARLIER START TIME!
Topic: Maslenitsa + Iftar
February
23

REEES Working Group

Fake Literature as a Cultural Problem: The Cases of the ‘Tolstoy Prophecy of WWI’ and ‘False Stalin’
Penn History Kruzhok presents Ilya Vinitsky (Slavic Department, Princeton)
March
4

Russian Tea
Topic: March 8th: International Women's Day
March
18

Russian Tea
Topic: Board Games: Imaginarium

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The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism

An article in Jacobin by Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee. Here: The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism
What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons from The Red Riviera, A Guest Post by Kristen Ghodsee

Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published Kristen Ghodsee's first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea.
Penn professors launch European Studies Institute, revitalize European studies minor

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Julia Alekseyeva, interviewed by Dr. Kristen Ghodsee

READ here: This Camera Kills Fascists

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