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
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...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 360 p. When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social strata have treated bathing as a communal activity integrating personal hygiene and public health with rituals, relaxation, conversations, drinking, political intrigue, business, and sex....
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...
The Great Courses, 2018. — 245 p. Russia’s global importance is undeniable. After a brief period of decline after the Soviet Union dissolved, the Russian state has reemerged in the 21st century with a geopolitical influence that rivals some of its most significant eras. Yet for as much as Russia demands the attention of Western policy makers, there remains uncertainty about...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. — 264 p. One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin’s studio. Tolstoy’s criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. — 357 p. — ISBN10: 0299318303, 13 978-0299318307. Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance studies and Russian studies into dialog for the first time and shows that performance is a...
Routledge, 2018. — 340 p. This book brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines who use different methodologies to interrogate the changing nature of Russian culture in the twenty-first century. The book considers a wide range of cultural forms that have been instrumental in globalizing Russia. These include literature, art, music, film, media, the internet,...
Academic Studies Press, 2018. — 240 P. Imperial Russia’s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies. It examines the ways in which hunters, writers, conservationists,...
Picador, 2018 (2003). — 696 (HQ/True) p. — ISBN: 0713995173, 0805057838. From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture. Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the lives of those who have shaped its...
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...
Wrocław: Ossolineum, 1984. — 292 s. Wstęp. Na progu stulecia. Ku Europie. Poza dworem. W dobie przewrótow. Aspiracje wladczyni. Niespełnione nadzieje. Przypisy. Indeks nazwisk. Spis ilustracji.