4e de couv.: The prevalence of anti-Semitism in Russia is well known, but the issue of race within the Jewish community has rarely been discussed explicitly. Combining ethnography with archival research, Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue documents the changing fac…
4e de couv.: In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged …
Ordinary people and the Stalinist terror uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behavior of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders targeted specific groups for arrest, but also strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to "un…
Unprecedented in its comprehensiveness, The Moscow Art Theatre fills a large gap in our knowledge of Stanislavsky and his theatre. Worrall focuses in particular detail on four of The Moscow Art Theatre's best-known productions : * Tolstoy's Tsar Fedor Ioannovich * Gorky's The Lo…
Un peu partout dans Moscou, les traces d'un passé mouvementé côtoient les signes d'un dynamisme architectural et urbain. Nouveaux centres d'art, vastes parcs et jardins, aménagements innovanrs viennet ainsi offrir au voyageur, en plus des trésors culturels, une douceur de vie qu…
An award-winning account of Stalin&rsquo ; s reign of terror when 1. 5 million people lost their lives in a single year. Karl Schlogel reconstructs the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the &lsquo ; Great Terror&rsq…
