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Category: Forum of Ideas

Reputations in Numbers: Russian Writers in Internet Statistics

Reputations in Numbers by Mikhail Epstein via Dalle-E.

This article, written by Igor Mandel and Mikhail Epstein, is appearing for the first time in English on the NURPLRT Forum. The article is also published in a Russian version: “Что в имени тебе моем? Русские писатели в статистике интернета” “Новый Журнал” / The New Review. №316, 2024, сентябрь, стр. 309-324. Abstract This article analyzes the frequency

F.M. Dostoevsky’s Nationalism: History, Historiography, and Politics. An Old Controversy in a Post-2022 Context

Perov Dostoevsky

This article by Julia Berest was first published in Russian History 50 (2023), 185–218. It is republished here with the permission of the author and publisher. The article is available as a PDF through a link following the abstract. Abstract: Dostoevsky’s nationalism has long been a sensitive and controversial topic in Western scholarship. At the

Crucible of Doubt

Ivanov Doubter

The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the sixth in the series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication.   In Capitalism

Forgiveness and Punishment

Shevchenko Among Robbers

The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the fifth in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication. Trivial transgressions