The Birch is a national biannual undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture.
The Birch was established in 2004. [1] The journal, which is run by undergraduates at Columbia University, [2] is the first exclusively undergraduate journal of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian studies in America. [1] It is published biannually, in fall and spring semesters. [1] Any enrolled undergraduate can submit work to one of three sections: creative writing, literary criticism and culture and affairs. [1] The Birch has featured interviews with the children of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Boris Pasternak. The Fall 2006 issue featured an interview with Eduard Shevardnadze.
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