Kevin M. F. Platt is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths and History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution.

Offers a much-needed remapping of 'Russian culture' as a global phenomenon and radically opens up the question of who produces and owns it, how it is sold and consumed, and how it is 'weaponized' today."" - Andy Byford, author of Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration of RussianIntroduction: Putting Russian Cultures in PlaceKevin M. F. PlattPart One: The Situation of Russian CulturesA Century of Russian Culture(s) “Abroad”: The Unfolding of Literary GeographyMaria RubinsRussophone Writing in Ukraine: Historical Contexts and Post-Euromaidan ChangesVitaly Chernetsky“Russian Culture” in Central Asia as a Trans-Ethnic PhenomenonNatalya Kosmarskaya and Artyom KosmarskyDistance and Proximity in the Baltic “Near Abroad”Kevin M. F. PlattHistory, Diaspora, and Geography: The Case of Russian-Israeli Cinema, 1991–2016Alex MoshkinTell Me Your Story: Russian-American Writing and the Commoditization of ImmigrationLisa Ryoko WakamiyaRussia as Whole and as FragmentsIlya KukulinPart Two: Russian Cultures At LargeWhen Soft Power Hardens: The Formation and Fracturing of Putin’s “Russian World”Michael S. GorhamIs There Any Such Thing as “Russophone Russophobia”? When Russian Speakers Speak Out against Russia(n) in the Ukrainian InternetDirk UffelmannThe Most Global Russian of All: Michael Idov and His Cosmopolitan OeuvreAdrian WannerThe “Globe-Trotting Russian” in Scotland: Discourses of Russian Cultural TourismLara Ryazanova-ClarkeRewriting Gender: Russian-American Women Writers and the Challenge to Russian FemininityYelena FurmanSong in a Strange Land: The Russian Musical Lyric Beyond the NationPhilip BullockGlobal Transnational Russian Culture: Non-Russians Writing Russian LiteratureMiriam FinkelsteinWorks CitedIndexContributors

Kevin M. F. Platt is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths and History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution.

Offers a much-needed remapping of 'Russian culture' as a global phenomenon and radically opens up the question of who produces and owns it, how it is sold and consumed, and how it is 'weaponized' today."" - Andy Byford, author of Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration of RussianIntroduction: Putting Russian Cultures in PlaceKevin M. F. PlattPart One: The Situation of Russian CulturesA Century of Russian Culture(s) “Abroad”: The Unfolding of Literary GeographyMaria RubinsRussophone Writing in Ukraine: Historical Contexts and Post-Euromaidan ChangesVitaly Chernetsky“Russian Culture” in Central Asia as a Trans-Ethnic PhenomenonNatalya Kosmarskaya and Artyom KosmarskyDistance and Proximity in the Baltic “Near Abroad”Kevin M. F. PlattHistory, Diaspora, and Geography: The Case of Russian-Israeli Cinema, 1991–2016Alex MoshkinTell Me Your Story: Russian-American Writing and the Commoditization of ImmigrationLisa Ryoko WakamiyaRussia as Whole and as FragmentsIlya KukulinPart Two: Russian Cultures At LargeWhen Soft Power Hardens: The Formation and Fracturing of Putin’s “Russian World”Michael S. GorhamIs There Any Such Thing as “Russophone Russophobia”? When Russian Speakers Speak Out against Russia(n) in the Ukrainian InternetDirk UffelmannThe Most Global Russian of All: Michael Idov and His Cosmopolitan OeuvreAdrian WannerThe “Globe-Trotting Russian” in Scotland: Discourses of Russian Cultural TourismLara Ryazanova-ClarkeRewriting Gender: Russian-American Women Writers and the Challenge to Russian FemininityYelena FurmanSong in a Strange Land: The Russian Musical Lyric Beyond the NationPhilip BullockGlobal Transnational Russian Culture: Non-Russians Writing Russian LiteratureMiriam FinkelsteinWorks CitedIndexContributors

Kevin M. F. Platt is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths and History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution.

Offers a much-needed remapping of 'Russian culture' as a global phenomenon and radically opens up the question of who produces and owns it, how it is sold and consumed, and how it is 'weaponized' today."" - Andy Byford, author of Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration of RussianIntroduction: Putting Russian Cultures in PlaceKevin M. F. PlattPart One: The Situation of Russian CulturesA Century of Russian Culture(s) “Abroad”: The Unfolding of Literary GeographyMaria RubinsRussophone Writing in Ukraine: Historical Contexts and Post-Euromaidan ChangesVitaly Chernetsky“Russian Culture” in Central Asia as a Trans-Ethnic PhenomenonNatalya Kosmarskaya and Artyom KosmarskyDistance and Proximity in the Baltic “Near Abroad”Kevin M. F. PlattHistory, Diaspora, and Geography: The Case of Russian-Israeli Cinema, 1991–2016Alex MoshkinTell Me Your Story: Russian-American Writing and the Commoditization of ImmigrationLisa Ryoko WakamiyaRussia as Whole and as FragmentsIlya KukulinPart Two: Russian Cultures At LargeWhen Soft Power Hardens: The Formation and Fracturing of Putin’s “Russian World”Michael S. GorhamIs There Any Such Thing as “Russophone Russophobia”? When Russian Speakers Speak Out against Russia(n) in the Ukrainian InternetDirk UffelmannThe Most Global Russian of All: Michael Idov and His Cosmopolitan OeuvreAdrian WannerThe “Globe-Trotting Russian” in Scotland: Discourses of Russian Cultural TourismLara Ryazanova-ClarkeRewriting Gender: Russian-American Women Writers and the Challenge to Russian FemininityYelena FurmanSong in a Strange Land: The Russian Musical Lyric Beyond the NationPhilip BullockGlobal Transnational Russian Culture: Non-Russians Writing Russian LiteratureMiriam FinkelsteinWorks CitedIndexContributors