Book Description
The Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on recent and contemporary Russian culture and history for students, teachers, and researchers across the disciplines.
Author : Tatiana Smorodinskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0415320941
The Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on recent and contemporary Russian culture and history for students, teachers, and researchers across the disciplines.
Author : Smorodinskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1136787852
This addition to the highly successful Contemporary Cultures series covers the period from period 1953, with the death of Stalin, to the present day. Both ‘Russian’ and ‘Culture’ are defined broadly. ‘Russian’ refers to the Soviet Union until 1991 and the Russian Federation after 1991. Given the diversity of the Federation in its ethnic composition and regional characteristics, questions of national, regional, and ethnic identity are given special attention. There is also coverage of Russian-speaking immigrant communities. ‘Culture’ embraces all aspects of culture and lifestyle, high and popular, artistic and material: art, fashion, literature, music, cooking, transport, politics and economics, film, crime – all, and much else, are covered, in order to give a full picture of the Russian way of life and experience throughout the extraordinary changes undergone since the middle of the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture is an unbeatable resource on recent and contemporary Russian culture and history for students, teachers and researchers across the disciplines. Apart from academic libraries, the book will also be a valuable acquisition for public libraries. Entries include cross-references and the larger ones carry short bibliographies. There is a full index.
Author : Eliot Borenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801474033
Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.
Author : Working Group for the Study of Contemporary Russian Culture
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Pavel Lyssakov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351388029
Cities are constructed and organized by people, and in turn become an important factor in the organization of human life. They are sites of both social encounter and social division and provide for their inhabitants “a sense of place”. This book explores the nature of Russian cities, outlining the role played by various Russian cities over time. It focuses on a range of cities including provincial cities, considering both physical, iconic, created cities, and also cities as represented in films, fiction and other writing. Overall, the book provides a rich picture of the huge variety of Russian cities.
Author : Gregory Freidin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN : 9780933884854
Author : Ellen E. Berry
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780472082773
Russian artists and critics attest to the cultural changes emerging since the fall of the Soviet Union
Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521477994
An introduction to modern Russian culture, from language and religion to literature and the arts.
Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Reference
ISBN :
A revealing look at contemporary Russian popular culture, exploring the historical and social influences that make it unique. Pop music is only one aspect of contemporary Russian culture that has taken some unexpected turns in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Television and advertising, theater and cinema, athletics and religion, even fashion and food now reflect more exposure to the West, yet remain in essence distinctively Russian. Pop Culture Russia! introduces readers to the fascinating, often surprising, post-Soviet cultural landscape. With chapters on media, the arts, recreation, religion, and consumerism, the book offers an insightful survey of Russian mass culture from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the present, exploring the historical significance of important events and trends, as well as the social and political contexts from which they emerged.
Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495628
Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture and the unique Russian contributions to the arts. Each of the eleven chapters has been revised or entirely rewritten to take account of current cultural conditions and the further reading brought up to date. The book reveals, for students, academic researchers and all those interested in Russia, the dilemmas, strengths and complexities of the Russian cultural experience.