Evgeny Dobrenko ; Natalia Jonsson-Skradol

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

Cryptologie-expert Linn Ståhl heeft gezworen nooit meer met de politie samen te werken, maar wanneer een oude vriend van de extreem-linkse beweging wa

From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This power

Daunt Books' reissue of the work of Natalia Ginzburg continues. Jewish scientist Guiseppe Levi has a testy but loving and dependent relationship with

Natalia Ginzburg (Palermo 1916 – Rome 1991) is een van de beste en meest vooraanstaande Italiaanse schrijfsters uit de twintigste eeuw en behoeft geen

In Familielexicon brengt Natalia Ginzburg haar Italiaanse familie tot leven. Ze beschrijft het geassimileerd-Joodse milieu van Turijn waarin ze opgroe

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

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

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

Roasted nuts and vegetables, fragrant citrus and cloves, jewelled lingonberries and cardamom buns fresh from the oven – these are the delights that

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

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

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

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

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