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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

    $135.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $281.99 CAD

  • 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

    $131.99 CAD

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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
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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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    Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940

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    Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature

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