Author Archives: Elizabeth Wood

About Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth Wood is Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pussy Riot Arrest and Byzantine Church-State Relations Today

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Elizabeth Wood

[http://www.1tvnet.ru/images/news_pic_Krasotin%2520sam%2520skoro%2520nauchitsya/735776%20(1).gif] Five members of the feminist punk rock group Pussy Riot have been arrested for a “punk prayer” at the Church of the Savior in Moscow. Two are being held until late April with threats of sentences up to seven … Continue reading →

Posted in Current events in the Putin Era, Imperial Russia, Nostalgia and Memory, Post-Soviet Russia, Russian Orthodoxy, Teaching Russian History | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Parodies of the Putin Spectacle

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Wood

On Friday, I gave a talk called “Putin: Spectacle and Anti-Spectacle” with several clips from some amazing videos.    Here’s a really funny one that RH readers might enjoy:  “I work in United Russia”     It is clearly a spoof on … Continue reading →

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