Barrels of fur: Natural resources and the state in the long history of Russia

Autor: Alexander Etkind

Publikováno v: Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 164-171 (2011)

This article argues that in its enormous Northern and Eastern stretches, the geographical space of Russia was shaped by the fur trade. The essay follows the boom and depletion of the fur trade in the longue durée of Russian history. The fur trade br

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Left Side of the Moon: Nabokov’s Personal Terminology of Homosexuality

Autor: Alexander Etkind

Publikováno v: CoSMO, Iss 7 (2015)

In Nabokov’s works we find homosexuals, unhappy, highly enigmatic people, often associated with the moon, as in The Gift and Pale Fire. Nabokov probably drew this metaphor from Rozanov’s People of the Moonlight. This essay traces the various refe

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Roads Not Taken : An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt

Autor: Alexander Etkind

A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World

Bartering and Cross-Border Embodied Performances

Autor: Kuhlmann, Annelis, Alexander, Etkind

Publikováno v: Kuhlmann, A & Alexander, E 2023, Bartering and Cross-Border Embodied Performances . in R Dieter & L Passerini (eds), Performing Memory. Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968 . vol. 47, Berghahn Books, Making Sense of History, vol. 47, pp. 96-121 .

The chapter, ‘Bartering and cross-border embodied performances’, presents a set of cases with cultural barters as a non-conflicting exchange of performative goods without money across borders in the broadest sense of the word. The aim of the cult

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Alexey Navalny: A hero of the new time

Autor: Alexander Etkind

Publikováno v: New Perspectives. 30:19-26

Russian leaders first tried to poison him, then unlawfully imprisoned him, and now are publicly torturing him. His enemies see him as an illegitimate pretender to the Russian throne. His fans are captivated by his ability to survive assassinations an

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https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825x211065909