Film Synopsis: REFUSENIK is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike. Told through the eyes of activists on...
DUE TO THE TRAGIC EVENT THAT HAS OCCURRED TODAY AND ONGOING POLICE ACTIVITY ON CAMPUS, WE HAVE CANCELLED THIS EVENT. About Celebrations across Cultures is a showcase of the diverse cultural talents of UCLA's student body. The show encourages students to embrace diversity and become global citizens. Interested in trying out? If you are interested...
The Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites you to join us in celebrating a new academic year at our annual Departmental Open House! Come and get to know your classmates, professors, and departmental academic counselor!
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Home Guards is a powerful drama about two brothers - Máté and Joci - who live in a small Eastern European town. They are recruited by a charismatic leader to join the Home Guards and take a stand against crime. The boys are happy because, for the very first time in their lives, they feel...
Join us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! Our talented students will perform holiday songs, poems, skits, and more to ring in the holiday season.
Do join us for the Far From Moscow Festival. Bring your friends, family, or business partners and see how the world’s biggest country connects to Hollywood! A new wave of Russian artists has appeared; the sounds and visions of the future. Please join us at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) for the FFM...
Nearly 150 years after its writing, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina continues to offer up new insights to readers and translators alike, discoveries arguably made possible by the passage of time. The novel’s most recent translation, by Marian Schwartz, takes a hard look at Tolstoy as a stylist and how he wielded aesthetics to bring home...
The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites you to its annual