Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Records
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Abstract
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia was established in 2011 thanks to a gift from the family of NYU alumni Boris and Elizabeth Jordan. The blog includes information on events sponsored by the Center, as well as scholarship from contributors across the University. The blog represents the Center's efforts to integrate Russian Studies more thoroughly into the new media landscape.
Historical Note
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia was established in 2011 thanks to a gift from the family of New York University alumni Boris and Elizabeth Jordan. The Center aims to to make Russia an aspect of all scholarly investigation. The organization sponsors researchers and fellowship programs, holds events, and hosts a blog.
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Scope and Contents
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Records (2015-ongoing) contains the blog for the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. The blog includes information on events sponsored by the Center, as well as scholarship from contributors across the University. The blog represents the Center's efforts to integrate Russian Studies more thoroughly into the new media landscape. It dates back to 2012. Topics of interest on the blog include the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014; the Sochi Olympics in 2014; the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022; Vladimir Putin; 19th century Russian writers; the Soviet Union; immigration stories; United States-Russia relations; students in Russia; the Russian Orthodox Church; politics; pop culture; propaganda; social media; racism; LGBTQIA+ in Russia; and anti-Semitism.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Records; RG 37.62; Wayback URL; New York University Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
In 2014-2015, https://jordanrussiacenter.org/all-the-russias/, http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/, and http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event-recaps/ were initially selected by curators and captured through the use Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2022, https://jordanrussiacenter.org/jordan-center-blog/ was selected for capture by University Archivist Janet Bunde. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.027. In 2024, https://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2024.054.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
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Appraisal
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored.
Accruals
As of this writing (June 2022), the blog is accrued weekly due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In Spring 2022, University Archivist Janet Bunde selected the blog. In 2024, the blog website redirected to a new URL and the new website was added. The collection was maintained by Nicole Greenhouse. Maintenance of the collection consisted of rescoping due to missing captured content, redirects and content drift, missing embedded materials (such as videos or attached Google documents and pdfs), and other materials created by selected entities that is related to the pandemic. The finding aid was created in Spring 2022 and description was standardized across the collection.