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Belarus - A Perpetual Borderland
Inbunden, 2009
2794 kr
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Belarus is known as “the last dictatorship of Europe”, yet its president enjoys public support. Its economy remains largely Soviet, yet exhibits high growth rates. Belarus styles itself as a European country yet clings to Russia as the only ally. The book explains these paradoxes by delving into …
Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953
Ideologies, Identities, Experiences
Av Nick Baron
Inbunden, 2017
2459 kr
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Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of children to be torn from their homes. Displaced …
Empire Speaks Out
Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire
Av Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
3157 kr
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Historians habitually write about empires that expand, wage wars, and collapse, as if empires were self-evident and self-conscious entities with a distinct and clear sense of purpose. The stories of empires are told in the language of modern nation-centred social sciences: multi-cultural and …
Visualizing Russia
Fedor Solntsev and Crafting a National Past
Inbunden, 2010
2849 kr
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The Romantic search for a national past was a European preoccupation in the first half of the nineteenth century. In Russia, this process led to the formation of the Russian style that has to today so captivated the world's imagination. While the manifestations of this style are easily recognizable …
Making the New Post-Soviet Person
Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow
Inbunden, 2010
2942 kr
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The post-Soviet years have widely been interpreted as a period of intense moral questioning, debate, and struggle. Despite this claim few studies have revealed how this moral experience has been lived and articulated by Russians themselves. This book provides an intimate portrait of how five …
Reformulating Russia
The Cultural and Intellectual Historiography of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers
Inbunden, 2011
3114 kr
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Georgii Fedotov’s Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii’s The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev’s The Russian Idea and Vasilii Zenkovskii’s History of Russian Philosophy—these are among the most well-known and widely-read historical studies of Russian thought and culture. Having …
"The Oldest One in Russia"
The Formation of the Historiographical Image of Valaam Monastery
Av Kati Parppei
Inbunden, 2011
2596 kr
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The post-Soviet resurrection of the Russian Orthodox Church has once again brought the idyllic borderland monastery of Valaam into public notice. The fame of the monastery is largely based on its long and honorable historic image as the “Northern Athos” . This book argues that the fascinating and …
Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin
Inbunden, 2012
3337 kr
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This book is the first biography of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953). One of the most prominent art-critics of the avant-garde, in 1919 Punin was the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, he was lecturing at the Academy of Arts and at the State University in Petrograd (and subsequently …
Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature
A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of Modernity
Av Alexei Lalo
Inbunden, 2011
3114 kr
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Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century, Russian …
Nightmare: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project
Inbunden, 2012
2886 kr
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What is a nightmare as a psychological experience, a literary experiment and a cultural project? Why has experiencing a nightmare under the guise of reading a novel, watching a film or playing a video game become a persistent requirement of contemporary mass culture? By answering these questions, …
Western Crime Fiction Goes East
The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934
Inbunden, 2012
2458 kr
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This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials. Traditionally maligned as “Pinkertonovshchina,” these appropriations of American and British detective stories featuring Nat Pinkerton, Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Ethel King, and scores of other …
Birth of the Body — Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Reader
Av Alexei Lalo
Inbunden, 2012
2265 kr
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This concise reader/anthology of Russian and Soviet erotic prose written between 1900 and 1940 consists of three parts: Silver Age writings, interwar émigré literature, and early Soviet fiction. It was not the author’s intention to select the most accomplished works dedicated to the theme of …
Fairy Tales and True Stories
The History of Russian Literature for Children and Young People (1574 - 2010)
Av Ben Hellman
Inbunden, 2013
3592 kr
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Russian literature for children and young people has a history that goes back over 400 years, starting in the late sixteenth century with the earliest alphabet primers and passing through many different phases over the centuries that followed. It has its own success stories and tragedies, talented …
Utopian Reality
Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond
Av Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2324 kr
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This collection of essays deals broadly with the visual and cultural manifestation of utopian aspirations in Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, while examining the before- and after-life of such ideas both geographically and chronologically. The studies document the pluralism of Russian and Soviet …
History of the Discovery and Study of Russian Medieval Painting
Inbunden, 2017
3721 kr
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This is the first study in any language to trace the emergence of the art historical interest in icon painting in the nineteenth century with its evident impact on the course of Russian modernism in the twentieth century. Given the surge in popularity of the Russian avant-garde, a book devoted to …
Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov
Life in a Bell Jar
Inbunden, 2016
2922 kr
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An Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov is the first English language study to follow Russia's most gifted and important historian to emerge from the school of V.O. Kliuchevskii through the transformative decades that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rozhkov's early philosophical …
Battle of Kulikovo Refought
“The First National Feat”
Inbunden, 2017
1854 kr
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The battle of Kulikovo, fought between Muscovite and Tatar troops in 1380, has been considered as a crucial turning point in the national history of Russia. In The Battle of Kulikovo Refought Kati Parppei examines the layers of contemporary meanings attached to the event from the Middle Ages to the …
Imagining Russian Regions
Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Inbunden, 2017
2260 kr
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In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861. Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel’s ideas of civil society influenced Russians and the …
Art for the Workers
Proletarian Art and Festive Decorations of Petrograd, 1917-1920
Inbunden, 2018
2553 kr
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Art for the workers explores the mythology and reality of post-revolutionary proletarian art in Russia as well as its expression in the festive decorations of Petrograd between 1917 and 1920. It covers this brief period chronologically, and so permits a close inspection of the development of …
Celebrating Suprematism
New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich
Inbunden, 2018
2378 kr
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Celebrating Suprematism throws vital new light on Kazimir Malevich’s abstract style and the philosophical, scientific, aesthetic, and ideological context within which it emerged and developed. The essays in the collection, which have been produced by established specialists as well as new scholars …
