Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Samuel Schwartz ’25 is a senior undergraduate student concentrating in History and Slavic Studies, with a specialty in the early Stalinist period of the Soviet Union, as well as Literary Arts. He is a passionate creative writer who is looking to combine all three of his disciplines in his work at the Cogut Institute by writing a novel based on the life and death of Nikolai Bukharin, on whose carceral manuscripts he’s written an academic article. Right now, he is also translating a novel by Yuri Olesha called Зависть [Envy], considered one of the foremost novels of the Soviet period and an outstanding exemplar of 20th-century literary aesthetics.