Marina Balina ; Evgeny Dobrenko

'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

Op 14 maart 2022 ging haar foto de wereld rond. Marina Ovsjannikova veroorzaakte een ongekend schandaal op de Russische staatstelevisie: tijdens een

De eerste ontmoeting van Marina Tsvetajeva met Natalja Gontsjarova (1881-1962) ― een ontmoeting van twee Russische grootheden ― vond plaats in 1928. M

'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life s

Marina Abramovic maakt al vijftig jaar baanbrekende kunst. In dit boek richt ze de blik naar binnen en onthult ze haar persoonlijke geschiedenis op vo

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

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

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

The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis

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

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

«La diversité des langues, souvent perçue comme une malédiction, en particulier par les utopistes inventeurs de langues universelles, est en fait u