CONTRIBUTORS

ANJOU KANG-STRYKER EDITORS

TED ALLEN-RAWDING

ANJOU KANG-STRYKER

CORMAC KRUPA-GILLMOR

ADRIENNE NEUFELD

OLIVIA NITTI

ADRIEN BALNY D’AVRICOURT

JOSIE GRUNDY

RUBYGRACE HEANEY

SOPHIA LI

JACK PRESTON

VEER PURI

CLAIRE RHEA

In a world mired in conflict and brutality, it’s hard to find what brings people together. Politics certainty doesn’t, nor religion. But maybe dialogue, discussion and deep-dive analysis can. That’s why I believe this year’s edition of Samizdat matters.

Enjoy papers across the full waterfront of Russian and Slavic topics, from Ukrainian cuisine to diplomacy in sport, from postmodern videogames to Navalny’s legacy, from film reviews of nineties cinema, and to an examination of “schizo-facism” in contemporary political discourse.

Thank you to my dedicated editing team: Olivia Nitti, Anjou Kang-Stryker, Cormac Krupa-Gillmor, Adrienne Neufeld and Ted Allen-Rawling. Though our graphic designer faced various setbacks, he still managed to produce a fantastic cover and layout for our journal.

Switching my minor to Russian Culture was the best decision I made at McGill. My peers and I in the department are lucky to learn under the tutelage of inspiring professors (a special shout-out to Professor Beraha, who inspired my love of post-Soviet literature). Without them, producing articles of this calibre for Samizdat would be impossible.

Наслаждайтесь.

Genevieve Coben, Editor-in-Chief