Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917–1919 (2000) and Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (2008). A 2009 Guggenheim recipient, Borenstein is working on a monograph entitled “Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism,” which he is posting in real time on the blog plotsagainstrussia.org. He is also the editor and developer of “All the Russias,” the blog site and web portal for the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
Eliot Borenstein
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Perestroika Blues
Now nearing the end of its fourth season, The Americans is a confounding success. It’s hard to figure out which of its triumphs is the most unlikely: that it has millions of Americans rooting for KGB agents to outsmart our country every week, or that the FX network has produced a critical darling that is […]
Russia, Today: Part 1
Amid the annexation of Crimea, the frozen conflict in eastern Ukraine, and an emerging proxy war in Syria, many commentators have proclaimed the beginning of a new Cold War between Russia and the West. But as ideologues on either side spread their messages through international organizations and news media, it has become increasingly difficult to […]
