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  • Work Flows

    Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture

    by Maya Vinokour ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Work Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures—whether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West. ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Lame Fate | Ugly Swans

    by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky ...
    Translated by Maya Vinokour ...
    Series Book 36 - Rediscovered Classics
    Never before translated into English, Lame Fate is the first-person account of middle-aged author Felix Sorokin. When the Soviet Writers' Union asks him to submit a writing sample to a newfangled machine that can supposedly evaluate the "objective value" of any literary work, he faces a dilemma. Should he present something establishment-approved but middling, or risk sharing his unpublished ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Energy Culture

    Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union

    Edited by Jillian Porter, Maya Vinokour ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy defined pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist utopianism; and how fossil fuels, electricity, and nuclear fission generated distinct ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Found Life

    Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview

    by Linor Goralik ...
    Series series
    One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Book Analysis)

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    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

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Cosmists

    The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers

    by George M. Young ...
    In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian religious and scientific thinkers emerged, united in the conviction that humanity was entering a new stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian intellectuals. In the first account in ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • 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

    $24.59 USD

  • 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

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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

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $35.29 USD

  • 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

    $26.59 USD

  • Cosmic Shift

    Russian Contemporary Art Writing

    by Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, Andrey Monastyrsky, Arseny Zhilyaev ...
    A TLS Book of the Year 2017In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's contemporary art, culture and and theory.With contributions from Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD