Slavic Languages & Literatures

Katia Dianina, Fall 2024 CGII Center Grant Research

Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between 1905 and 1917.

My project considers the contested heritage debate in the former Serbian province of Kosovo on the example of four medieval Eastern Orthodox monasteries, all UNESCO World Heritage sites.

On June 28, 1941 Nazi soldiers literally paraded into Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus, and began posting orders around the city.

Exploring the tragic dispersal of imperial art collections during the early Soviet period.