Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post Soviet Literature by Mikkhail Epshtein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Alexander Genis

Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Late Soviet and Post Soviet Literature Mikkhail Epshtein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Alexander Genis ebook
ISBN: 9781571810984
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Page: 546
Format: pdf

May 12, 2014 - Marx characterized the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian Empire a “prison house of nations,” and indeed until near the end of the twentieth century, few knew of the captive nations constituting the Soviet Union. Nov 1, 2011 - By contrast, the participatory art of Eastern Europe and Russia from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s is frequently marked by the desire for an increasingly subjective and privatized aesthetic experience. Jun 17, 2013 - A cultural history of Soviet science fiction also contributes to a better understanding of what people actually wanted to read and sheds new light on the question of how popular literature adapts to political changes and As they converse with their predecessors, contemporary writers examine stagnation, not just in post-Soviet Russia, but in global, postmodern, commodified reality. I pursued an independent research project called “Contemporary Russian Poetry and Its Response to Historical Change,” which involved meeting poets, translating and living through the tumult of post-Soviet economic “shock therapy. Albeit the two He writes, “The most conspicuous result of the changed perspective on women's work in late NEP was that female workers stopped going to monthly meetings and housewives with more time attended instead” (134). Andrzej Nowak, Imperiological Studies: A Polish Perspective (Alexey Miller) 383. Watson Fellowship year (1992-1993). Day in America), the Russian magazine Buro 24/7 published a story about heiress, Artsy investor, and Garage Center for Contemporary Culture founder Dasha Zhukova. Jan 24, 2014 - When censorship was lifted in the early 1990s and torrents of formerly banned books poured into bookshops, the newly-written works were “post-Soviet” in spirit, then “post-post-Soviet,” but they still couldn't get away from the Soviet Readers abroad often say that Russia doesn't seem to have produced any “great novels” addressing the big issues of the last two decades, which were so rich in consequential events. PS- There is already huge literature in the issue. Jan 3, 2014 - On November 21, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with some 500 Russian writers, poets and publishers. Aug 27, 2012 - Jeffrey Rossman's Worker Resistance under Stalin and Kevin Murphy's Revolution and Counterrevolution both deal with workers in the Soviet Union between the October Revolution and end of the First Five Year Plan in 1932. Dec 19, 2012 - This interview series, “Conversations after the Fall: Interviews with Contemporary Russian Poets,” began as part of my Thomas J. Mar 10, 2012 - Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture, and Society, V. In the late 90's some poets still played with Soviet images. Jan 21, 2014 - Yesterday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Apr 8, 2013 - In his essays, Medvedev calls for a reclamation of the Russian language and, therefore, of literary culture, from the comfortable stability of post-Soviet Russia. Dec 26, 2012 - Prevailing Attitudes on Soviet Architectural Heritage in Georgia: a historical perspective In the following text my aim is to illustrate the dominant attitudes towards the soviet architectural heritage of late modernist period in contemporary Georgia. At first glance, this Given the saturation of everyday life with ideology, Soviet artists did not regard their work as political but rather as existential and apolitical, committed to ideas of freedom and the individual imagination. Even fewer As one scholar noted in the Washington Post: “Putin not only seeks to revisit the results of the end of the Cold War; he also wants a final say in establishing the new world order.