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Sasha Razor

Sasha Razor holds a PhD in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures from UCLA. Her dissertation focused on the screenplays of Russian prose authors in the 1920s and 1930s.

Articles

How to Topple a Tyrant: A Conversation with Belarusian Democratic Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sasha RazorAug 9, 2021
“The Doctor of Cult Urology”: A Conversation with Vladimir Paperny
Sasha Razor interviews bilingual author, designer, architectural historian, culturologist, and video journalist Vladimir Paperny.
Sasha RazorJun 27, 2021
- Around the World
“This Decadent Western Thing”: Joanna Stingray on the Soviet Underground Rock Scene
The L.A. rocker on her experiences in the underground rock scene in pre-glasnost Russia.
Sasha RazorOct 17, 2020
The Lesson of Belarus
Sasha RazorAug 18, 2020
The Only One Left: A Conversation with James Lloydovich Patterson About Grigori Aleksandrov’s “Circus”
Sasha Razor interviews James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Soviet mother who became a Soviet actor and author.
Sasha RazorJul 7, 2020
Hippies in the USSR: An Interview with Juliane Fürst
Sasha Razor interviews Juliane Fürst, curator of “Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture” at the Wende Museum.
Sasha RazorNov 9, 2018
“Trust Your Vision”: An Interview with the Filmmakers of the Cult Classic “Liquid Sky” (1982)
Sasha Razor interviews Slava Tsukerman, Yuri Neyman, and Marina Levikova, the visionaries behind the cult classic “Liquid Sky” (1982).
Sasha RazorApr 14, 2018
- Around the World
- Film
No Revolution Without the International: An Interview with Dmitry Bykov
Sasha Razor interviews the Russian polymath Dmitry Bykov.
Sasha RazorOct 3, 2017

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