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CLUSTER: DISABILITY IN EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA

Constructing and Deconstructing Disability in Eastern Europe and Russia

Maria Cristina Galmarini and Maria Bucur                           

Deafness in the Interwar Romanian Press: From “Abnormal” Children to Celebrated Soccer Stars

Maria Bucur                                                                           

Contested Normalities: Concepts of Autism in Socialist Bulgaria

Gergana Mircheva                                                                  

The Invalid Fund: Disabled Afghan War Veterans, Violence, and Organized Crime in Post-Soviet Russia

emily hoge

Articles

Returning “Our Royal Animal” to its “Fatherland”: The Near-extinction and Restoration of Bison in Poland after World War I

Nathaniel d. wood

The Lviv Pogrom as an Epistemic Event: Violence, Denial, and Knowledge in Postimperial Poland

Jagoda Wierzejska

The Barber-Surgeon and the Schismatic: Reframing an Icon of Russian Modernity

Ernest A. Zitser                                                                      

The Rise of Ruscism/Russism: Pro-War Contemporary Art in Russia and Its Genealogy

nikolay smirnov

BOOK Forum: crucibles of power

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CRITICAL FORUM: ENCODING THE STATE—ON THE BUREAUCRATIC GRAPHOSPHERE

Introduction: Specters of (un)seeing

Angus Russell

Grave Slabs and Silicon Cyrillic: What Use Is the Graphosphere?

Nancy Condee

“According to their Faith”: Bureaucracy and Imperial Encounters in the Litsevoi Letopisnyi Svod

Valerie A. Kivelson

Iconic Endgame: Simon Ushakov’s Signature Moves in the Graphosphere

Michael S. Flier

Peter the Great Turns the Page

Nancy S. Kollmann

Handwriting and Bureaucracy

Alison Smith  

Too Much to Ban: Policing the Graphosphere in Paul I’s Riga

Gregory Afinogenov

Voting in the Graphosphere: Elections in the Russian Empire

Stephen Lovell

Encoding Equines: Horses in the Modern Bureaucratic Graphosphere

Simon Dixon

Silicon Cyrillic: On Nullary Writing, or Why Digital Writing is Still Handwriting

Benjamin Peters

On Words and Spaces: Forms Filled and Unfilled in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Simon Franklin

ARTICLES

Translating the Boom: Carlos Fuentes and the Soviet World Literature Project

Michael Lavery

Russia’s Descent into Authoritarianism: Are the Siloviki to Blame?

Sharon Werning Rivera, David W. Rivera, and Alexander Nemeth

“To Admire and Understand the Pace”: Speed Aesthetics in the

Fascist Reportage of Slovak Propagandist Juraj Gajdoš Breza

Maxim Duleba

The Origins of the Construct of Russophobia: Émigrés, Antisemitism, and Radio Liberty

Benjamin Tromly                                                                  

Red Cottages: Polish Rural Communists in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Łukasz Bertram