Routledge, 2006. — 143 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe) Lenin Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev Andropov and Chernenko Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin
Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press, 2012 — 286 p. — (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century) — ISBN: 978-1-61811-202-6 Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-61811-203-3 Electronic. Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary...
Durham; London: Duke University Press, 1992. — 176 p. Irina H. Corten’s Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture is an experiment in what Soviet scholars call lingvo-stranovedenie — the study of a country and its culture through the peculiarities of its language. Not a conventional dictionary, Corten’s lexicon is selective, offering a broad sampling of culturally significant...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 266 p. — (Studies in Russia and East Europe). Background to the Study Russian Nationalism in Nash sovremennik The Brezhnev Succession Crisis and the Russian Challenge Andropov and the Suppression of Statist Russian Nationalism From Chernenko to Gorbachev Aleksandr Yakovlev and the ‘Cultural Offensive’ Ligachev and the Conservative Counter-Offensive...
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2002. - 230 p. Introduction: The Book of Odes and the Book of History Poetry beyond the Pale Katharine Hodgson. Russian Womens Poetry in the 1930s Diana Lewis Burgin. Sophia Parnok and Soviet-Russian Censorship, 1922-1933 J. Alexander Ogden. Overcoming the Destruction of Peasant Russia: The Epic Impulse in Nikolai Kliuev's Late...
Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0253205131; ISBN13: 978-0253205131. In the tumultuous years after the revolution of 1917, the traditional cutlure of Imperial Russia was both destroyed and preserved, as a new Soviet culture began to take shape. This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and cultural policies of the...
Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0253205131; ISBN13: 978-0253205131. In the tumultuous years after the revolution of 1917, the traditional cutlure of Imperial Russia was both destroyed and preserved, as a new Soviet culture began to take shape. This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and cultural policies of the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. — 291 p. — ISBN10: 1349206539; ISBN13: 978-1349206537 — (Studies in Russia and East Europe) Up to now the culture of the Stalin period has been studied mainly from a political or ideological point of view. In this book renowned specialists from many countries approach the problem rather 'from inside'. The authors deal with numerous aspects of...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 0299233243; ISBN13: 978-0299233242. Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and high-speed industrial machinery proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, a fascination with speed influenced artists — from Moscow to Manhattan — working in a variety of media. Russian...
Northwestern University Press, 2013. — 176 p. Making Modernism Soviet provides a new understanding of the ideological engagement of Russian modern artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, and Vera Ermolaeva with the political and social agenda of the Bolsheviks in the chaotic years immediately following the Russian Revolution. Focusing on the relationship between...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. — 320 p.— ISBN10: 0299229246; ISBN13: 978-0299229245. A wide-ranging study of empire, religious prophecy, and nationalism in literature, Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1940 provides the first examination of Russia’s self-identification with Rome during a period that encompassed the revolutions of 1905 and...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. — 272 p. During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite fluctuating government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers an insider's look at Soviet...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0199992983; ISBN13: 978-0199992980. Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live forever? These "big" questions of human nature and human destiny have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries. But they assumed a particular urgency and...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 1421426412; ISBN13: 978-1421426419 — (Hopkins Studies in Modernism) The writing and teaching of Russian literary and cultural history have changed little since the 1980s. In Search of Russian Modernism challenges the basic premises of Russian modernist studies, removing the aura of certainty surrounding the...
Checkmark Books, 1998. — 240 p. — (Cultural Atlas of). — ISBN: 978-0-8160-3815-2. The Russian Orthodox Church is currently celebrating its millennium, one that coincides approximately with the documented history of Russia itself. That 1000-year history - both political and cultural - is the principal subject of this volume. After due acknowledgment of the Hellenistic, Slav,...
University of Rochester Press, 2018. — 252 p. In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin , Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early Soviet narratives constructed stories of national heroes and villains alike as...
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2010. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 0838757391; ISBN13: 978-0838757390. Recent research on the Soviet period of Russian literary history has eliminated many gaps in our understanding of that complex era. With few exceptions, however, little critical attention has been directed to the most important of all Soviet genres: the production novel, or...
Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2009. — 158 p. — (Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna 7) — ISBN (online) 978-88-8453-961-8. This book offers a portrait of Leningrad in the 1960s, of its cultural life in those years permeated by a great hope for change. Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, is the heir and witness of the rise and fall of the 'Soviet hope' for an authentic...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. — 194 p. — ISBN: 0-312-07265-1 The government of the Soviet Union is well known for cover-ups, human rights violations, and outright lies — but how much do the Soviet people know, and where do they get their information? Drawing on over 150 interviews with Russians and Russian émigrés, veteran journalist Donald Shanor reveals the hidden story...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. — 194 p. — ISBN: 0-312-07265-1 The government of the Soviet Union is well known for cover-ups, human rights violations, and outright lies — but how much do the Soviet people know, and where do they get their information? Drawing on over 150 interviews with Russians and Russian émigrés, veteran journalist Donald Shanor reveals the hidden story...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0748698027; ISBN13: 978-0748698028. Despite tense and often hostile relations between the USSR and the West, Soviet readers were voracious consumers of foreign culture and literature as the West was both a model for emulation and a potential threat. Discourses of Regulation and Resistance explores this ambivalent...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. — 320 p. The Theoretical Foundations of Literary Controls The Heyday of Zhdanovism, 1946-1952 The Quest for a Middle Way, 1953-1955 The Challenge of 1956 The Drive for “Consolidation,” 1957-1959 Bureaucratic Controls and Literary Production Perspectives and Prospects Notes Index
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. — 320 p. The Theoretical Foundations of Literary Controls The Heyday of Zhdanovism, 1946-1952 The Quest for a Middle Way, 1953-1955 The Challenge of 1956 The Drive for “Consolidation,” 1957-1959 Bureaucratic Controls and Literary Production Perspectives and Prospects Notes Index
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2013. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0-8101-2894-2. In postrevolutionary Russia, as the Soviet government pursued rapid industrialization, avant-garde artists declared their intent to serve the nascent state and to transform life in accordance with their aesthetic designs. Despite their utilitarian intentions, however, most avant-gardists rarely...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0804786925; ISBN13: 978-0804786928. The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking...
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