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Calendar Clash: Candles and Sickles and Flags, Oh My
\"The streets of Moscow are empty, as they always are in the first week of May. But beneath the silence, ideologies are clashing mightily over the soul of this traditional spring holiday.\" (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) The conflict between \"Soviet-era political commemorations [and] ancient religious festivals\" is discussed.
Newspaper Article
Ivan Kupala
Ivan Kupala is a Russian holiday also known as the feast of John the Baptist. It coincides with the summer solstice and was once \"the day of cleansing with water and fire\" (RUSSIAN LIFE). Learn more about the history and traditions of this Russian holiday.
Magazine Article
Holiday of the Holy Trinity
\"Fifty days after Easter, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the great holiday of Pyatidesyatnitsa--the feast of the descent of the Holy Spirit. It was on this day, as God had promised, that the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles.\" (RUSSIAN LIFE) In Russian folklore, this holiday merged with a Slavic pagan holiday to celebrate the coming of summer. This holiday is celebrated with joyful festivals and traditions which include an abundance of food. Learn more about this Russian holiday, also called Troitsa, meaning trinity.
Magazine Article
Beyond Holy Russia
This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Reduced trolling on Russian holidays and daily US Presidential election odds
Russian trolls generally supported the Trump campaign and were particularly active on Twitter 2015-2017. We find that trolling fell 35% on Russian holidays and to a lesser extent, when temperatures were cold in St. Petersburg. Exogenous variation in trolling by day allows us to consider indirectly -affected political behaviors in the US—outcomes that are less traceable via tweet sharing but potentially more important to policymakers than the direct dissemination previously studied. As a case in point, we describe reduced form evidence that Russian holidays affected daily trading prices in 2016 election betting markets. This response is consistent with successful Russian interference in support of Trump.
Journal Article
Club Red
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capitalist bourgeoisie.
InClub Red, Diane P. Koenker offers a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika. She shows that from the outset, the regime insisted that the value of tourism and vacation time was strictly utilitarian. Throughout the 1920s and '30s, the emphasis was on providing the workers access to the \"repair shops\" of the nation's sanatoria or to the invigorating journeys by foot, bicycle, skis, or horseback that were the stuff of \"proletarian tourism.\" Both the sedentary vacation and tourism were part of the regime's effort to transform the poor and often illiterate citizenry into new Soviet men and women.
Koenker emphasizes a distinctive blend of purpose and pleasure in Soviet vacation policy and practice and explores a fundamental paradox: a state committed to the idea of the collective found itself promoting a vacation policy that increasingly encouraged and then had to respond to individual autonomy and selfhood. The history of Soviet tourism and vacations tells a story of freely chosen mobility that was enabled and subsidized by the state. While Koenker focuses primarily on Soviet domestic vacation travel, she also notes the decisive impact of travel abroad (mostly to other socialist countries), which shaped new worldviews, created new consumer desires, and transformed Soviet vacation practices.
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