Elen SilaFlowering in The Shadows: women in the history of Chinese and Japanese painting“……it could be argued quite reasonably that the distinguished heritage of classical calligraphy in China emanates from a woman, Madam Wei…3 min read·Sep 18, 2021----
Elen SilaInternational Political EconomyYet as Peter Katzenstein argues in more detail, a price has been paid. In particular, there is too little emphasis on how ‘interests’ are…2 min read·Mar 2, 2021----
Elen SilaKvale (1996) has proposed a very useful list of ten criteria of a successful interviewer.Knowledgeable: is thoroughly familiar with the focus of the interview; pilot interviews of the kind used in survey interviewing can be…1 min read·Feb 22, 2021----
Elen SilaIrreconcilable Differences: Divorces and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era“Two basic assumptions about the nature of private life were embedded in texts on Communist morality and in didactic materials about…2 min read·Jan 26, 2021----
Elen SilaPravada Denounces Pasternak and the Nobel Award‘Pasternak’s novel is a political lampoon, and a lampoon is not literature. You can din a brush in tar and daub a thick coat of it on a…1 min read·Jan 26, 2021----
Elen SilaSoviet ArtistsAleksander Mosolov https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/mosolov-zavod1 min read·Oct 27, 2020----
Elen SilaExtract from ‘Slavery and Human Progress’ by David Brion DavisThe vulnerability of young women is suggested by the fact that in the earliest protoliterate tables, the sign for ‘slave girl’ appeared…2 min read·Oct 26, 2020----
Elen SilaHello Medium!I feel extremely lonely and unaccountably sad. October is indeed dangerous for mood……However, every time my friends ask me to go out or…1 min read·Oct 12, 2020----