Queer in Russia
Author: Laurie Essig
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323464
Category: History
Page: 244
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An ethnographic exploration of gay and lesbian lives in contemporary Russia.Find Full eBook
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Reference Guide to Russian Literature
Author: Neil Cornwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134260709
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 1012
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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Remaining Relevant After Communism
Author: Andrew Baruch Wachtel,Dean the Graduate School Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226867668
Category: History
Page: 233
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More than any other art form, literature defined Eastern Europe as a cultural and political entity in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often persecuted by the state, East European writers formed what was frequently recognized to be a "second government," and their voices were heard and revered inside and outside the borders of their countries. This study by one of our most influential specialists on Eastern Europe considers the effects of the end of communism on such writers. According to Andrew Baruch Wachtel, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the creation of fledgling societies in Eastern Europe brought an end to the conditions that put the region's writers on a pedestal. In the euphoria that accompanied democracy and free markets, writers were liberated from the burden of grandiose political expectations. But no group is happy to lose its influence: despite recognizing that their exalted social position was related to their reputation for challenging political oppression, such writers have worked hard to retain their status, inventing a series of new strategies for this purpose. Remaining Relevant after Communism considers these strategies—from pulp fiction to public service—documenting what has happened on the East European scene since 1989.It Will Be Fun and Terrifying
Author: Fabrizio Fenghi
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: 0299324400
Category: Art
Page: 312
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"The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies: bolshevism and nationalism. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts that eventually led to the support of Putin's conservative, imperialist regime over social justice and fundamental civil liberties. To illuminate the role of these right-wing ideas in contemporary Russian society, Fabrizio Fenghi examines the public pronouncements and aesthetics of this influential movement. He analyzes a diverse range of media, including novels, art exhibitions, performances, seminars, punk rock concerts, and even protest actions. His interviews with key figures reveal an attempt to create an alternative intellectual class, or a "counter-intelligensia." This volume shows how certain forms of art can transform into political action through the creation of new languages, institutions, and modes of collective participation"--Russian Fascism
Author: Stephen Shenfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315500035
Category: History
Page: 352
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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.The Art of Writing Badly
Author: Richard Chandler Borden
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116917
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 404
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"The art of writing badly" is a phrase the Russian writer Valentin Kataev coined to describe the work that came out of the mauvist movement in Russia-a style of writing that consciously challenged Soviet dogma. In this book, Richard Borden discusses the cultural and political context from which these authors emerged and the development of "bad writing." Beginning with a close examination of the work of Kataev, the best-known progenitor of "bad writing," Borden then broadens his study to include the "mauvist creations" of post-Stalinist writers Aksenov, Bitov, Sokolov, Limonov, Evgeny Popov, and Venedikt Erofeev. Borden shows how these writers' shared mauvistic characteristics reveal major philosophical and aesthetic tendencies in contemporary Russian culture, bring to light facets of their writing that have never been discussed, and enrich the readings of the particular texts under discussion.The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia
Author: Mikhail Suslov,Per-Arne Bodin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788317068
Category: Political Science
Page: 376
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More than 700 'utopian' novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias – meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history – do not set out merely to titillate; instead they express very real Russian anxieties: be they territorial right-sizing, loss of imperial status or turning into a 'colony' of the West. Contributors to this innovative collection use these narratives to re-examine post-Soviet Russian political culture and identity. Interrogating the intersections of politics, ideologies and fantasies, chapters draw together the highbrow literary mainstream (authors such as Vladimir Sorokin), mass literature for entertainment and individuals who bridge the gap between fiction writers and intellectuals or ideologists (Aleksandr Prokhanov, for example, the editor-in-chief of Russia's far-right newspaper Zavtra). In the process The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia sheds crucial light onto a variety of debates – including the rise of nationalism, right-wing populism, imperial revanchism, the complicated presence of religion in the public sphere, the function of language – and is important reading for anyone interested in the heightened importance of ideas, myths, alternative histories and conspiracy theories in Russia today.Limonov's It's Me, Eddie and the Autobiographical Mode
Author: Karen L. Ryan
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: Autobiographical fiction
Page: 37
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Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies and Movements
Author: Stephen Shenfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131746043X
Category: Political Science
Page: 324
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This study presents a thorough analysis of facism, its manifestations in Russian political and cultural history, and facist tendencies and movements in contemporary Russian society.Black Wind, White Snow
Author: Charles Clover
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300223943
Category: History
Page: 384
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Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.