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Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research is an open-access international journal since 2023 published by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University in cooperation with the Centre for Independent Social Research (founder and in 2009–2023 official publisher of the journal). Laboratorium publishes materials in Russian and English.


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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024)

Published: 28.10.2024

Lead editor: Veronika Davidov

Articles

No-Strings-Attached Time: Temporal Multiplicity and Stability of Urban Commune

Artem Kotelnikov
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Page 4-23
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Transformations of Environmentalist Identity (Based on Interviews with Eco Activists)

Yulia Ermolaeva, Elena Loshchinina
Abstract 160 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 167
Page 24-56
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Building an Informal Transnational Information Network on the USSR from Paris: An Outside Perspective on Soviet Life in 1923–1939

Natalia Pashkeeva
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Page 57-94
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“Now the Demands Are a Little Different”: Russian Viewers’ Perception of Queer Characters in Cinema

Daniil Alekseev, Maksim Malkov
Abstract 244 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 221
Page 95-123
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Essays

Invisible Money as the Instrument for Social Control: Imaginary Colonization of the Virtual Exchange Space

Kseniya Shtalenkova
Abstract 171 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 182
Page 124-146
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Book Reviews

Kristina Gedgaudaitė. Memories of Asia Minor in Contemporary Greek Culture. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Inna Nikitina
Abstract 69 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 110
Page 147-152
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Robert Jervis. Vospriiatie i nevernoe vospriiatie v mezhdunarodnoi politike. Moscow: Tsentr analiza strategii i tekhnologii, 2022

Greg Yudin
Abstract 146 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 150
Page 153-157
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Izabella Agárdi. On the Verge of History: Life Stories of Rural Women from Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, 1920–2020. Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, 2022

Pavel Kupriyanov
Abstract 182 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 105
Page 158-162
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Viktor Zaitsev. Tovarishch Chekhov: Ocherki po istorii sovetskogo chekhovedeniia 1920–1950-kh godov. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Literaturnyi muzei," 2022

Kseniya Vanicheva
Abstract 62 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 114
Page 163-166
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Elizabeth Buchanan. Red Arctic: Russian Strategy under Putin. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2023

Maria Sakaeva
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Page 167-171
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Ksenia Robbe, ed. Remembering Transitions: Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023

Kira Valter
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Page 172-176
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Sofia Gavrilova. Russia’s Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History, and Society. London: Routledge, 2022

Boris Stepanov
Abstract 108 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 123
Page 177-181
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Julie A. Cassiday. Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023

Julia Zelikova
Abstract 101 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 112
Page 182-188
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Juliane Fürst. Tsvety, probivshiye asfal't: Puteshestvie v Sovetskuiu Khippliandiiu. Moscow: NLO, 2023

Dmitry Kozlov
Abstract 91 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 168
Page 189-196
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Nataliia Lebina. Khrushchevka: Sovetskoe i nesovetskoe v prostranstve povsednevnosti. Moscow: NLO, 2024

Daniil Akhmerov
Abstract 119 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 136
Page 197-201
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Xenia A. Cherkaev. Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023

Nikita Karbasov
Abstract 127 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 140
Page 202-206
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