"Likhachev portrays his childhood years in St. Petersburg and continues into his student life at Leningrad University that led to an agonizing period of imprisonment and near death. He describes how a harmless prank caught the attention of the Secret Police, resulting in his exi…
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Sincerity after communism: a culturalhistory
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A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with globalsocial and media flows.
Sincerity after communism: a cultural history
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Type: Book
Sincerity after communism: a cultural history
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Type: Book
Sincerity after communism: a cultural history
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Type: Book
The global cultural practice of a "new sincerity" in literature, media, art, design, fashion, film, and architecture grew steadily in the wake of the Soviet collapse. Cultural historian Ellen Rutten traces the rise and proliferation of a new rhetoric of sincere social expression…
Sincerity after communism: a cultural history
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Type: Book
A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows.
Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery? -- Deconstructing imperial Moscow -- Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world -- Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasia…
Clowes takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers. She argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates…
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors-whether axes of north vs…
