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  • Production. Documentation. Intervention

    On Unofficial Art in Late Soviet Russophone Culture from the 1960s to the 1980s

    Edited by Ilja Kukuj, Brigitte Obermayr ...
    Series series Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries
    This volume examines the artistic world of late Soviet unofficial art—the work that happened outside official channels, invisible to the general public—and asks what it actually took to make and sustain that world. It focuses on three interconnected concerns: how art was produced, how it was documented, and how it intervened in the official culture around it.One of the book's central insights is ... Read more

    $107.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union

    Edited by Riccardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr ...
    Series series Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries
    In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative. The call for a "Russian Stevenson" (Lev Lunts) profoundly impacted the theory of prose and different notions of the literary hero. It also led theorists like Shklovsky to write dime novels and convinced writers of various backgrounds to explore Soviet ... Read more

    $134.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 87/2021

    Edited by Ilja Kukuj, Riccardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr, Tilmann Reuther ...
    Series Book 87 - Wiener Slawistischer Almanach
    Der Band enthält zwei thematische Blöcke zu Osip Mandel’štam und Andrej Platonov sowie Aufsätze über die russischsprachige Literatur des 19. und des 20. Jhd. (Nikolaj Gogol’, Vladimir Nabokov, Dichter der OBERIU).　Des Weiteren sind Beiträge zur Pragmatik der literarischen Motive und Lexikographie der Umgangssprache enthalten. Der Band wird mit Rezensionen über aktuelle Neuerscheinungen in der ost- ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

    Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Marina Balina ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses

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    by Karolina Watroba ...
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    Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940

    by Emma Widdis ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

    Edited by Julie A. Buckler, Justin Weir ...
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    The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own tradition and asserts its own identity as a literary form. To read a Russian novel often requires the fortitude to traverse many hundreds ... Read more

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    Edited by Birgit Beumers ...
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