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  • Picturing the Cosmos

    A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor

    by Iina Kohonen ...
    Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union’s 1957 victory in the ‘Race for Space’, the author illustrates the media’s role in cementing the way for ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Introducing Modernism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Chris Rodrigues ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    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

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Secondhand Time with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of personal testimonies from people who lived through the demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent establishment of the Russian Federation. The accounts gathered in the book span two ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • We Modern People

    Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity

    by Anindita Banerjee ...
    "An erudite and thoughtful study of Soviet science fiction" ( Science magazine) revealing a unique Russian vision of modernity distinct from Western models.Science fiction emerged in Russia considerably earlier than its English version and instantly became the hallmark of Russian modernity. We Modern People investigates why science fiction appeared here, on the margins of Europe, before the genre ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soviets in Space

    The People of the USSR & the Race to the Moon

    by Colin Turbett ...
    A fascinating account of the social and political background to the space race and its place in the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.The victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, in which the Soviet Union played both the greatest part and suffered the greatest losses, found the country in a state of devastation. Military strength could not compensate for the damage wreaked by war, especially in the ... Read more

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  • ANARCHISM AND GERHARD RICHTER

    by Moham Ratnam ...
    A study of Richter’s output as an artist, and the role of anarchism within it. “Anarchism is at its best when it goes beyond its analysis of the state and other social institutions to uncover an authoritarian consciousness which is not only shaped by authoritarian institutions, but also expresses itself through those exact institutions. Such an analysis sees no other answer than the transformation ... Read more

    $9.34 CAD

  • Russia on the Edge

    Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

    by Edith W. Clowes ...
    Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw

    Space, Materiality, Movement

    by Lida Oukaderova ...
    Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw became known for its relative political and cultural liberalization; its films, formally innovative and socially engaged, were swept to the center of international cinematic discourse. In The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw, Lida Oukaderova provides an in ... 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

    $39.99 CAD