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Personality and the Soviet Popular Song, 1955-1991
David MacFadyen delves into influential and widely disseminated songs that had a profound social significance in the Soviet Union. He discusses each s...
Grand Narratives and the Philosophy of the Russian Popular Song since Perestroika
In Estrada?!, the second volume of a three-part series on Russian popular song, David MacFadyen extends his overview of Russian culture and society in...
MacFadyen focuses on Brodsky's poetic beginnings. Revising the typical, simplistic representation of the young Brodsky and his peers in Western critic...
Russian Animated Film Since World War II
"In 1999, Boris Yeltsin passed a resolution to resurrect the biggest cartoon studio in Eastern Europe, Soiuzmul'tfil'm. From the mid-1930s until its f...
Primetime Drama and Comedy
Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primeti...
Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955
The author traces the careers of early singers such as Izabella Iur'eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fle...
An Introduction to Russia's Most Popular Filmmaker
Annotation A detailed look at the work of Russia's most popular film director....
Literary criticism of the work of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has tended to be biographical, stressing the significance of physical or metaphysical ex...
The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance
This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummon...
Years of Hope and Despair
Alois Derso (1888-1964) and Emery Kelen (1896-1978) became internationally renowned for their cartoon depictions of efforts to build a better world fo...
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