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 Place

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 Place

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 Place