Evgeny Dobrenko

This engrossing book explores the important role played by Stalinist cinema in legitimizing Stalinism and producing a new Soviet identity. Evgeny Dobr

This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the West

A unique study of Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history.

How the last years of Stalin's rule led to an imperial Soviet consciousness

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existen

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the

Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological cliches of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. This text examine

Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological cliches of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. This text examine

'Petrified Utopia' redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection

Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Sta

The pursuit of collective happiness was considered a utopian ideal that structured many aspects of Soviet culture, a fact recognized by numerous schol

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the liter

Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and eco

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and eco