Making the New Post-Soviet Person

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The Birth of the Body — Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Reader

Translated and edited by Alexei Lalo

This anthology of Russian erotic writings of 1900 to 1940 consists of texts previously unavailable in English. They all reflect the fascinating, albeit laborious, nature of the "birth of the body" in the Russian literature and culture of the period.

€96.00$133.00

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9789004233102

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Western Crime Fiction Goes East

Boris Dralyuk, University of California, Los Angeles

This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials, traditionally maligned as “Pinkertonovshchina,” and posits the “red Pinkerton” as a vital “missing link” between pre- and post-Revolutionary popular literature.

€112.00$156.00

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Nightmare

Dina Khapaeva, Georgia Institute of Technology — translated by Rosie Tweddle

An analysis of the novels of Maturin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Lovecraft and Pelevin through the prism of their interest in investigating the nature of the nightmare reveals the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and traces the mosaic of coincidences leading from literary ...

€136.00$189.00

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9789004204751

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The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde

Natalia Murray

The first biography of Nikolay Punin, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of his life in the context of Russian political, social and cultural history in the first half of the 20th century.

€123.00$159.00

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9789004211193

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Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature

Alexei Lalo

The monograph explores traditions of expressing the body and sexuality (designated as "silence" and "burlesque") throughout Russia's literary history, with a particular focus on how these traditions affect the literary modernization during the Silver Age (1890-1921) and subsequent émigré writing.

€123.00$159.00

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9789004192867

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Reformulating Russia

Kåre Johan Mjør

Reformulating Russia provides a thorough narratological and contextual analysis of Russian émigré historiography as it appears in Georgii Fedotov’s Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovskii’s The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev’s The Russian Idea and Vasilii Zenkovskii’s History of ...

€113.00$146.00

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9789004202221

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"The Oldest One in Russia"

Kati Parppei

Contributing, for instance, to the fields of nationality and borderland studies, this book offers a fascinating study of the process of “writing a worthy past” for the Russian Orthodox monastery of Valaam during the 18th and 19th centuries.

€124.00$161.00

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Visualizing Russia

Cynthia Hyla Whittaker

This book elaborates the origins of the famed Russian style and celebrates the seminal role that Fedor Solntsev plays in its development, thus rescuing from near obscurity this pioneer in the arts of the nineteenth century and in the formation of the defining image of Imperial Russia.

€101.00$131.00

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9789004180055

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Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal

Anna Lisa Crone

Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist ...

€117.00$152.00

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9789004174481

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Belarus - A Perpetual Borderland

Andrew Savchenko

The book explains Belarus’s adherence to Soviet social, political and economic institutions. Comparative historical analysis spans the period from the 16th century to the present. Discussion concentrates on development of Belarus’s national institutions in interaction with Russia and other ...