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Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991
A pioneering history of the experiences of children during Russia's most disrupted century How a country views its children reveals a great deal about...
This text explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture and aims to answer the questions: How and when did a Russian...
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Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin
Advice literature (etiquette manuals, guides to hygiene and house management, and treatises on upbringing) enjoyed massive popularity in Russia betwee...
The Rise And Fall Of A Soviet Boy Hero
It was September, 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village. Both have been repeatedly st...
Lenfilm Studio Under Brezhnev
Drawing on documents from archives in St Petersburg and Moscow, the analysis portrays film production "in the round" and shows that the term "censorsh...
Empire at Table
In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of Russian food in the modern ag...
Shadows of the Past
DIVFragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is a...
Written from a feminist perspective, the book combines a broad historical survey with close textual analysis. Sections on women's writing in the perio...
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Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918–1988
In Russia, legislation on the separation of church and state in early 1918 marginalized religious faith and raised pressing questions about what was t...
Russia at the Margins
A conventional view of Russia represents it as a country where autocracy, centralised rule, and domination by the 'power vertical' both inside and out...