Due to facilities work at the Ives Main Library, browsing on the first floor will be limited to new releases and the Ives Squared collection on Tuesday, April 14. Debido a mejoras en las instalaciones de la Biblioteca Principal Ives, la consulta directa en el primer piso se limitará a las novedades y a la colección Ives Squared el martes 14 de abril.
Black and white photographs of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Solzhentisyten, Nadezhda and Osip Mandelstam, Maxim Gorky, and Mikhail Bulgakov

Lessons on Social Commentary and Censorship From Russian Literary Classics

Written by Julia Chamberlain In March of 2022, the University of Milano-Bicocca canceled a planned course in Russian literature as an act of protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Although the university quickly reversed its decision, the debate alone points to a disquieting comfort with censorship. No one can doubt the sincerity of the … Continued