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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.
Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.
Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
wiley   +1 more source

Restaging Rituals: Methodologies for Dialogue With Migrant Workers and Communities in Agro‐Industrial Localities Under Pressure

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how agricultural rituals can serve as methodological tools to uncover migrant workers’ voices and facilitate dialogue in agro‐industrial regions under pressure. On the basis of 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Haspengouw, Belgium, and Westland, the Netherlands, the research combined participant observation in ...
Carolien Lubberhuizen
wiley   +1 more source

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