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  • Dialogues

    Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories about Ourselves

    by Tomas Glanc, Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov ...
    Artists in the Soviet Union faced a difficult choice: either join the official academies and make art that conformed to the state’s aesthetic and ideological dictates, or attempt to develop alternative artistic practices and spheres for exhibiting their work. In the early 1970s, conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov chose the latter option, turning their limited resources into an ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture

    Edited by Mark Lipovetsky, Ilja Kukuj, Klavdia Smola, Maria Engström, Tomáš Glanc ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations." This resolution put an end to the coexistence of aesthetically different groups and associations of writers and artists that had been common during the 1920s, and instead, led to the establishment of the monopoly of Socialist Realism in 1934. Ironically, this ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • Samizdat Past+Present

    Edited by Tomáš Glanc ...
    Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature—the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvík Vaculík, and Jáchym Topol, among many others—has, in fact, just recently become widely available to readers. Long published only in censored form or in secret among political dissidents, this body of underground literature is collectively known as samizdat. Samizdat Past and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

    The Russian Perspective

    by Daniel Povolný, Leonid Shinkarev, Olga Pavlenko, Nikita Petrov, Dmitry Beloshevsky, Petr Pithart, Tomáš Glanc, Elvira Filipovich ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    The edited collection is the first attempt to take a more coherent look at the Russian perception of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The publication is therefore a collection of interviews, memoirs and academic studies focusing on Russian soldiers, dissidents and journalists involved in and affected by the Soviet invasion.The book begins with a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
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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
    After 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 justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... 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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  • Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe

    by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, Maria G. Rewakowicz ...
    The concept of a 'return to Europe' has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. While the goal of a more fully reformed politics remains elusive, numerous expressions of Ukrainian culture continue to develop in the European spirit. This wide-ranging book explores Ukraine's European cultural connection, especially as it has been reestablished since ... Read more

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  • The Guggenheim Reader Series: Russia

    by The Guggenheim Museum ...
    The Guggenheim Reader Series: Russia is the inaugural title in a new e-book series that brings together scholarly essays on prominent themes. The Guggenheim has a rich history of exploring Russian art and the avant-garde in particular; this anthology collects the most insightful and influential essays from exhibition catalogues such as The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, ... Read more

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  • Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry

    Reinventing the Canon

    by Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton, Alexandra Smith ...
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  • Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory

    Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature

    by Stijn Vervaet ...
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    Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary narratives about the Holocaust offer a particularly interesting case because time and again Holocaust memory is represented as intersecting with other stories of ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Samizdat

    Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union

    by Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz ...
    Series series Library of Modern Russia
    Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlesSamizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union. But as Josephine von Zitzewitz explains, while much is known about the texts themselves, little is available on the complex communities and cultures that existed around them due to their necessarily ... Read more

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