Russian History and Culture
Biographical note
Jeffrey P. Brooks (brooksjp@jhu.edu) is Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in Russian culture and politics in the 19th-20th century, Russian literature and history, Russian Popular Culture, and Cold War studies. Professor Brooks has published extensively on these subjects and also serves as a Board member of the journal Russian History and as advisor of Brill's primary source program in Russia.
Christina Lodder (hammerlodder@hotmail.com) is Honorary Professorial Fellow of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She specializes in the history of Russian art and design of the early twentieth century. Her numerous publications include Russian Constructivism, the Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures of Naum Gabo, Constructing Modernity, the Art and Career of Naum Gabo; Constructive Strands in Russian Art, and Rethinking Malevich.
Christina Lodder (hammerlodder@hotmail.com) is Honorary Professorial Fellow of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She specializes in the history of Russian art and design of the early twentieth century. Her numerous publications include Russian Constructivism, the Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures of Naum Gabo, Constructing Modernity, the Art and Career of Naum Gabo; Constructive Strands in Russian Art, and Rethinking Malevich.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Jeffrey P. Brooks, The Johns Hopkins University
Christina Lodder, University of Edinburgh
Jeffrey P. Brooks, The Johns Hopkins University
Christina Lodder, University of Edinburgh
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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Based on life-historical research with five Muscovites, this book provides an intimate portrait of their experience of the post-Soviet years as a period of intense refashioning of moral personhood. This process is revealed as uniquely personal, socially shared, and globally influenced.
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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.
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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 ...
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