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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 25, 2019
Check out Dr. Dina Khapaeva's new article below in Project Syndicate titled "Putin and the Apocalypse." Dr. Khapaeva is a professor of Russian at the School of Modern Languages. Her most recent book project The Celebration of Death in Russia and America (forthcoming at the University of Michigan Press) compares the ways of engaging with death and representations of violent death in Russian and American popular culture.
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