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  • Reading Russian Literature, 1980–2024

    Literary Consumption, Memory and Identity

    Edited by Otto Boele, Dorine Schellens ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until today. It challenges perceived notions about the reduced social significance and identity-building potential of contemporary Russian literature. Drawing on a diverse set of primary source materials, ranging from memoirs, diaries and essays to fan art and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series In-Formation
    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia's World Order

    How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West

    by Paul Robinson ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Russia's World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and autocracy. Russia's World Order explains that in Russian eyes, the conflict is about something very different: it is a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Wild Music

    Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine

    by Maria Sonevytsky ...
    Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological SocietyWhat are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio ... Read more

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  • Choosing a Mother Tongue

    The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine

    by Corinne A. Seals ...
    Series Book 169 - Multilingual Matters
    This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights regarding multilingualism among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the diaspora of New Zealand, the US and Canada, and sheds light on the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on language ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • The Gumilev Mystique

    Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

    by Mark Bassin ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Marija Gimbutas

    Transnational Biography, Feminist Reception, and the Controversy of Goddess Archaeology

    by Rasa Navickaitė ...
    This book is a biography and reception history of the Lithuanian–American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994). It presents the first transnational account of Gimbutas’ life based on historical research, and an original examination of the impact of her ideas in various feminist contexts, both academic and popular.At the core of this book is a success story of an Eastern European woman who ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv

    Narratives, Identity, and Power

    by Eleonora Narvselius ...
    Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia’s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L’viv is an especially apt site for ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

    Edited by Julie A. Buckler, Justin Weir ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    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

    $182.69 USD

  • The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia

    Old Intellectuals in the New Russia

    by Inna Kochetkova ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the last embodiment of the classical tradition of the intelligentsia. They devoted their lives to defending ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Lessons of History

    Learning from Catastrophe and Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Maria Karlsson, Klas-Göran Karlsson ...
    Historical lessons are useful or even necessary for our guidance and orientation in time. These lessons, however, have often been overlooked in historical reflections on watershed moments, such as genocides, treaties, and global movements. Focusing on how cataclysmic events, primarily within Central and Eastern Europe, have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates ... Read more

    $23.79 USD