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What Comes after “Post-Soviet” in Russian Studies?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Julie A. Buckler
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Russian studies are still in love with their fascinating and unpredictable subject, despite radically changing geopolitical realities and shifts in the academic climate. We in the field have been through something resembling the free-market shock therapy prescribed for newly non-Soviet Russia, a major shake-up in intellectual orientation and logistics. Our methodologies, perspectives, and projects are always in this sense a reflection of our present-day subject, but they are also a self-portrait, the latest in a series.

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 251 - 263
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Copyright © 2009 by The Modern Language Association of America

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