Literature and Fine ArtsAdams, Amy Singleton, and Vera Shevzov, eds. Framing Mary: The Mother of ... more Literature and Fine ArtsAdams, Amy Singleton, and Vera Shevzov, eds. Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post‐Soviet Russian Culture. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. xiii + 344 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐776‐8.Kokobobo, Ani. Russian Grotesque Realism: The Great Reforms and the Gentry Decline. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. x + 154 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8142‐1363‐6.Groys, Boris, ed. Russian Cosmism. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2018. x + 252 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978‐0‐2620‐3743‐3.Arns, Inke, Igor Chubarov, and Sylvia Sasse, eds. Nikolai Evreinov & Others: “The Storming of the Winter Palace”. Translated by Bernard Heise, David Riff, and Jordan Lee Schnee. Think Art. Berlin: Diaphanes, 2016. 320 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐03734‐8991‐5.Stone, Jonathan. The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xiv + 304 pp. $39.95 (paper). 978‐0‐8101‐3572‐7.Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Natalia Jonsson‐Skradol. Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin: Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses. London: Anthem Press, 2018. 372 pp. $175.00. ISBN 978‐1‐783‐08697‐9.Sharov, Vladimir. The Rehearsals. Translated by Oliver Ready. Gardena: Dedalus Books, 2018. 359 pp. $19.99. ISBN 978‐1910213148.Naumenko, Tatyana. Textological Aspects of Musicology in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Moscow: Progress‐Tradition, 2017. 448 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐89826‐495‐1.Lunde, Ingunn. Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post‐Soviet Russia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 232 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐474‐42156‐0.Arvatov, Boris. Art & Production. Edited by John Roberts, and Alexei Penzin. Translated by Shushan Avagyan. London: Pluto Press, 2017. viii + 146 pp. $28.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐7453‐3736‐4.HistoryFeldbrugge, Ferdinand J. A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649. Law in Eastern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xix + 1097 pp. €399.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐34642‐0.O'Neill, Kelly. Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xx + 361 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐21829‐9.Friesen, Leonard G., ed. Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. xii + 338 pp. $56.25. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0194‐5.Perabo, Betsy. Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo‐Japanese War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 219 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐5375‐8.Matsuzato, Kimitaka, ed. Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xvii + 185 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐3704‐9.Porter, Thomas Earl, and Lawrence W. Lerner. Prince George L'vov: The Zemstvo, Civil Society, and Liberalism in Late Imperial Russia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 257 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐1867‐3.Albert, Gleb J. Das Charisma der Weltrevolution: Revolutionärer Internationalismus in der frühen Sowjetgesellschaft 1917–1927. Cologne: Boehlau‐Verlag, 2017. 631 pp. €85.00. ISBN 978‐3‐412‐50754‐1.Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxx + 823 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐199‐79421‐8.Lee, Eric. The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution, 1918–1921. Chicago: Zed Books, 2017. xxvi + 259 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐786‐99092‐1.Kelly, Catriona. Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. 440 pp. $59.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐743‐0.Viola, Lynne. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 268 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐067416‐8.Krueger, Marcel. Babushka's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xvi + 222 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978‐1‐78453‐801‐9.Edele, Mark, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann, eds. Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. viii + 306 pp. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8143‐4267‐1.Kotljarchuk, Andrej, and Olle Sundström, eds. Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research. Södertörn Academic Studies. Stockholm: Södertörn University, 2017. 292 pp. SEK213.00. ISBN 978‐91‐7601‐777‐7.Stotland, Daniel. Purity and Compromise in the Soviet Party‐State: The Struggle for the Soul of the Party, 1941–1952. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xl + 273 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐4062‐9.Heinzen, James. The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943–1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 416 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐17525‐7.Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. The…
After discussing a number of classifications of and approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia, th... more After discussing a number of classifications of and approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia, the editors stake out their own position by providing a functional definition of the term and outlining the overall methodology of the volume. Nostalgia is defined as a discursive practice stemming from a (shared) feeling of loss and potentially serving any political agenda. The individual chapters focus on the working of nostalgia, its interaction with other forms of remembering and its (political) instrumentalization. The editors then introduce a further distinction that is vital to the entire volume: they differentiate between nostalgic sensibilities (feelings of longing) and nostalgic technologies (discursive techniques of nostalgia shaping a sense of connectedness to a past). Grouped in three different sections, the chapters in the volume are briefly discussed, as well as the tripartite structure itself. The section on “Affect” explores attitudes and emotional responses to “nostalgic ...
Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays i... more Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of loss and displacement in post-Soviet Russia are turned into effective tools of state building and national mobilization, as well as into weapons for local resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy. Drawing on novels, memoirs, documentaries, photographs and Soviet commodities, Post-Soviet Nostalgia is an invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and anthropologists interested in how Russia comes to terms with its Soviet past.
Dit proefschrift onderzoekt in een aantal case studies hoe Russische literatuur uit de periode 19... more Dit proefschrift onderzoekt in een aantal case studies hoe Russische literatuur uit de periode 1990-2010 zich verhoudt tot het debat over een “Russische identiteit”. Het analyseert hoe speelse en ironische benaderingen van dit klemmende vraagstuk in de literatuur rond de eeuwwisseling langzaam plaatsmaken voor meer zelfverzekerde visies op Ruslands unieke “karakter”, “idee” of “missie”. Ik laat zien hoe terugkerende verwijzingen in de literatuur naar “het imperium” als Ruslands natuurlijke bestaansvorm hierbij verbonden zijn met een nieuwe culturele zelfverzekerdheid. In recente literatuur staat “het imperium” telkens voor een verlangde sociale en geografische eenheid en voor een veronderstelde historische continuiteit van de Russische cultuur. Mijn analyses suggereren dat de verschuivingen in de literaire representatie van identiteit deels voortvloeien uit een breed gevoelde vermoeidheid met de toon van populair postmodern proza uit de jaren ’90, waarin “het Russische vraagstuk” va...
Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity, 2016
Chapter 3 examines the early novels and stories of one of Russia’s prime postmodernist authors, V... more Chapter 3 examines the early novels and stories of one of Russia’s prime postmodernist authors, Vladimir Sorokin. After mapping out Sorokin’s critical engagement with Russia’s “literaturocentric” tradition and his intricate deconstructions of literature’s engagement with “the Russian question,” the chapter turns to its main case study: the tale “A Month in Dachau” (1994). As in Pelevin’s novel, in Sorokin’s early work totalitarian terror looms large over contemporary Russian culture, though here the insidious workings of a traumatic past have repercussions for authorship, aestheticism, and the literary medium itself. I argue in this chapter that Sorokin’s early stories and novels express the awareness that literature, in the wake of its alignment with (or dissent against) totalitarian projects, cannot assist in formulating new directions and collective identities without continuing its coercive functions.
In two novels of the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Pelevin, Generation “P” and “Chisla”, pos... more In two novels of the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Pelevin, Generation “P” and “Chisla”, post-Soviet identity and meaning emerge constantly out of the (sometimes literal) clashes between bipolar ideological, cultural and temporal notions: socialism versus capitalism, Russia versus the West, old versus new. The novels clearly evoke the thesis of a binary impulsion in the dynamics of Russian culture, proposed
Literature and Fine ArtsAdams, Amy Singleton, and Vera Shevzov, eds. Framing Mary: The Mother of ... more Literature and Fine ArtsAdams, Amy Singleton, and Vera Shevzov, eds. Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post‐Soviet Russian Culture. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. xiii + 344 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐776‐8.Kokobobo, Ani. Russian Grotesque Realism: The Great Reforms and the Gentry Decline. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. x + 154 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8142‐1363‐6.Groys, Boris, ed. Russian Cosmism. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2018. x + 252 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978‐0‐2620‐3743‐3.Arns, Inke, Igor Chubarov, and Sylvia Sasse, eds. Nikolai Evreinov & Others: “The Storming of the Winter Palace”. Translated by Bernard Heise, David Riff, and Jordan Lee Schnee. Think Art. Berlin: Diaphanes, 2016. 320 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐03734‐8991‐5.Stone, Jonathan. The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xiv + 304 pp. $39.95 (paper). 978‐0‐8101‐3572‐7.Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Natalia Jonsson‐Skradol. Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin: Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses. London: Anthem Press, 2018. 372 pp. $175.00. ISBN 978‐1‐783‐08697‐9.Sharov, Vladimir. The Rehearsals. Translated by Oliver Ready. Gardena: Dedalus Books, 2018. 359 pp. $19.99. ISBN 978‐1910213148.Naumenko, Tatyana. Textological Aspects of Musicology in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Moscow: Progress‐Tradition, 2017. 448 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐89826‐495‐1.Lunde, Ingunn. Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post‐Soviet Russia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 232 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐474‐42156‐0.Arvatov, Boris. Art & Production. Edited by John Roberts, and Alexei Penzin. Translated by Shushan Avagyan. London: Pluto Press, 2017. viii + 146 pp. $28.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐7453‐3736‐4.HistoryFeldbrugge, Ferdinand J. A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649. Law in Eastern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xix + 1097 pp. €399.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐34642‐0.O'Neill, Kelly. Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xx + 361 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐21829‐9.Friesen, Leonard G., ed. Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. xii + 338 pp. $56.25. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0194‐5.Perabo, Betsy. Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo‐Japanese War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 219 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐5375‐8.Matsuzato, Kimitaka, ed. Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xvii + 185 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐3704‐9.Porter, Thomas Earl, and Lawrence W. Lerner. Prince George L'vov: The Zemstvo, Civil Society, and Liberalism in Late Imperial Russia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 257 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐1867‐3.Albert, Gleb J. Das Charisma der Weltrevolution: Revolutionärer Internationalismus in der frühen Sowjetgesellschaft 1917–1927. Cologne: Boehlau‐Verlag, 2017. 631 pp. €85.00. ISBN 978‐3‐412‐50754‐1.Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxx + 823 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐199‐79421‐8.Lee, Eric. The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution, 1918–1921. Chicago: Zed Books, 2017. xxvi + 259 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐786‐99092‐1.Kelly, Catriona. Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. 440 pp. $59.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐743‐0.Viola, Lynne. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 268 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐067416‐8.Krueger, Marcel. Babushka's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xvi + 222 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978‐1‐78453‐801‐9.Edele, Mark, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann, eds. Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. viii + 306 pp. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8143‐4267‐1.Kotljarchuk, Andrej, and Olle Sundström, eds. Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research. Södertörn Academic Studies. Stockholm: Södertörn University, 2017. 292 pp. SEK213.00. ISBN 978‐91‐7601‐777‐7.Stotland, Daniel. Purity and Compromise in the Soviet Party‐State: The Struggle for the Soul of the Party, 1941–1952. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xl + 273 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐4062‐9.Heinzen, James. The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943–1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 416 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐17525‐7.Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. The…
After discussing a number of classifications of and approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia, th... more After discussing a number of classifications of and approaches to the phenomenon of nostalgia, the editors stake out their own position by providing a functional definition of the term and outlining the overall methodology of the volume. Nostalgia is defined as a discursive practice stemming from a (shared) feeling of loss and potentially serving any political agenda. The individual chapters focus on the working of nostalgia, its interaction with other forms of remembering and its (political) instrumentalization. The editors then introduce a further distinction that is vital to the entire volume: they differentiate between nostalgic sensibilities (feelings of longing) and nostalgic technologies (discursive techniques of nostalgia shaping a sense of connectedness to a past). Grouped in three different sections, the chapters in the volume are briefly discussed, as well as the tripartite structure itself. The section on “Affect” explores attitudes and emotional responses to “nostalgic ...
Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays i... more Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of loss and displacement in post-Soviet Russia are turned into effective tools of state building and national mobilization, as well as into weapons for local resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy. Drawing on novels, memoirs, documentaries, photographs and Soviet commodities, Post-Soviet Nostalgia is an invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and anthropologists interested in how Russia comes to terms with its Soviet past.
Dit proefschrift onderzoekt in een aantal case studies hoe Russische literatuur uit de periode 19... more Dit proefschrift onderzoekt in een aantal case studies hoe Russische literatuur uit de periode 1990-2010 zich verhoudt tot het debat over een “Russische identiteit”. Het analyseert hoe speelse en ironische benaderingen van dit klemmende vraagstuk in de literatuur rond de eeuwwisseling langzaam plaatsmaken voor meer zelfverzekerde visies op Ruslands unieke “karakter”, “idee” of “missie”. Ik laat zien hoe terugkerende verwijzingen in de literatuur naar “het imperium” als Ruslands natuurlijke bestaansvorm hierbij verbonden zijn met een nieuwe culturele zelfverzekerdheid. In recente literatuur staat “het imperium” telkens voor een verlangde sociale en geografische eenheid en voor een veronderstelde historische continuiteit van de Russische cultuur. Mijn analyses suggereren dat de verschuivingen in de literaire representatie van identiteit deels voortvloeien uit een breed gevoelde vermoeidheid met de toon van populair postmodern proza uit de jaren ’90, waarin “het Russische vraagstuk” va...
Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity, 2016
Chapter 3 examines the early novels and stories of one of Russia’s prime postmodernist authors, V... more Chapter 3 examines the early novels and stories of one of Russia’s prime postmodernist authors, Vladimir Sorokin. After mapping out Sorokin’s critical engagement with Russia’s “literaturocentric” tradition and his intricate deconstructions of literature’s engagement with “the Russian question,” the chapter turns to its main case study: the tale “A Month in Dachau” (1994). As in Pelevin’s novel, in Sorokin’s early work totalitarian terror looms large over contemporary Russian culture, though here the insidious workings of a traumatic past have repercussions for authorship, aestheticism, and the literary medium itself. I argue in this chapter that Sorokin’s early stories and novels express the awareness that literature, in the wake of its alignment with (or dissent against) totalitarian projects, cannot assist in formulating new directions and collective identities without continuing its coercive functions.
In two novels of the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Pelevin, Generation “P” and “Chisla”, pos... more In two novels of the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Pelevin, Generation “P” and “Chisla”, post-Soviet identity and meaning emerge constantly out of the (sometimes literal) clashes between bipolar ideological, cultural and temporal notions: socialism versus capitalism, Russia versus the West, old versus new. The novels clearly evoke the thesis of a binary impulsion in the dynamics of Russian culture, proposed
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