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| Author | : Kimberly A. Williams |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2012-02-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438439776 |
Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender Studies, Imagining Russia uses U.S.–Russian relations between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case study to examine the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visual and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in contemporary narratives of American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Through analyses of several key post-Soviet American popular and political texts, including the hit television series The West Wing, Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum, and the legislative hearings of the Freedom Support Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Williams calls attention to the production and operation of five types of "gendered Russian imaginaries" that were explicitly used to bolster support for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways that the masculinization of U.S. military, political, and financial power after 1991 paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
| Author | : Susan Smith-Peter |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2017-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004353518 |
In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861. Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel’s ideas of civil society influenced Russians and the resulting plans to stimulate the growth of civil society also formed subnational identities. It challenges the view of the provinces as empty space held by Nikolai Gogol, who rejected the new non-noble provincial identity and welcomed a noble-only district identity. By 1861, these non-noble and noble publics would come together to form a multi-estate provincial civil society whose promise was not fulfilled due to the decision of the government to keep the peasant estate institutionally separate.
| Author | : Valerie Ann Kivelson |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300119615 |
What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.
| Author | : Nina L. Khrushcheva |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0300148240 |
div Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) are highly relevant to the political transformation under way in Russia today. Khrushcheva, a Russian living in America, finds in Nabokov’s novels a useful guide for Russia’s integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov’s “Western” characters herself, she discusses the cultural and social realities of contemporary Russia that he foresaw a half-century earlier. In Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; Pnin; and other works, Nabokov reinterpreted the traditions of Russian fiction, shifting emphasis from personal misery and communal life to the notion of forging one’s own “happy” destiny. In the twenty-first century Russia faces a similar challenge, Khrushcheva contends, and Nabokov’s work reveals how skills may be acquired to cope with the advent of democracy, capitalism, and open borders. /DIV
| Author | : Christina Kiaer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
These artists, heeding the call of Constructivist manifestos to abandon the nonobjective painting and sculpture of the early Russian avant-garde and enter into Soviet industrial production, aimed to work as "artist-engineers" to produce useful objects for everyday life in the new socialist collective." "Kiaer shows how these artists elaborated on the theory of the socialist object-as-comrade in the practice of their art. They broke with the traditional model of the autonomous avant-garde, Kiaer argues, in order to participate more fully in the political project of the Soviet state. She analyzes Constructivism's attempt to develop modernist forms to forge a new comradely relationship between human subjects and the mass-produced objects of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Alan M. Ball |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2004-09-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0585482772 |
In Imagining America, historian Alan M. Ball explores American influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Ball deftly illustrates how in each era Russians have approached the United States with a conflicting mix of ideas—as a land to admire from afar, to shun at all costs, to emulate as quickly as possible, or to surpass on the way to a superior society. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Ball traces the shifting Russian perceptions of American cultural, social, and political life. As he clearly demonstrates, throughout their history Russian imaginations featured a United States that political figures and intellectuals might embrace, exploit, or attack, but could not ignore.
| Author | : Gyorgy Peteri |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2010-11-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 082297391X |
This volume presents work from an international group of writers who explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production. They reveal that the roots of an East/West cultural divide were present many years prior to the rise of socialism and the Cold War. The chapters offer insights into the complex stages of adoption and rejection of Western ideals in areas such as architecture, travel writings, film, music, health care, consumer products, political propaganda, and human rights. They describe a process of mental mapping whereby individuals "captured and possessed" Western identity through cultural encounters and developed their own interpretations from these experiences. Despite these imaginaries, political and intellectual elites devised responses of resistance, defiance, and counterattack to defy Western impositions. Socialists believed that their cultural forms and collectivist strategies offered morally and materially better lives for the masses and the true path to a modern society. Their sentiments toward the West, however, fluctuated between superiority and inferiority. But in material terms, Western products, industry, and technology, became the ever-present yardstick by which progress was measured. The contributors conclude that the commodification of the necessities of modern life and the rise of consumerism in the twentieth century made it impossible for communist states to meet the demands of their citizens. The West eventually won the battle of supply and demand, and thus the battle for cultural influence.
| Author | : Mikhail Suslov |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2020-11-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3838213610 |
In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as “Eurasianism,” “Holy Russia,” “Russian civilization,” “Russia as a continent,” “Novorossia,” and others. He demonstrates that these concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination, structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages, at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about Russia’s exclusion—imaginary or otherwise—from the processes of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilization, and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order, tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.
| Author | : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere |
| Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This study examines how Russians imagine Russia in the 21st century and for the last three centuries. It looks at Russian history and modern day conflicts, such as ethnicity, to see how Russian people identify themselves. This study sheds light on many topics in Russian history, such as nationalism, anti-Semitism, Orthodox Christianity and ethnic others and reaction to NATO actions in Kosovo.
| Author | : Valerie Ann Kivelson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Art and history |
| ISBN | : 9780300164213 |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Seeing into being: an introduction / Valerie A Kivelson and Joan Neuberger -- 2: Dirty old books / Simon Franklin -- 3: Visualizing and illustrating early Rus housing / David M Goldfrank -- 4: Crosier of St Stefan of Perm / A V Chernetsov -- 5: Sixteenth-century Muscovite cavalrymen / Donald Ostrowski -- 6: Blessed is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar: an icon from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin / Daniel Rowland -- 7: Cap of Monomakh / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- 8: Church of the Intercession on the Moat / St Basil's Cathedral / Michael S Flier -- 9: Mapping serfdom: peasant dwellings on seventeenth-century litigation maps / Valerie A Kivelson -- 10: From tsar to emperor: portraits of Aleksei and Peter I / Lindsey Hughes -- 11: Russian Round Table: Aleksei Zubov's depiction of the marriage of his Royal Highness, Peter the First, autocrat of all the Russias / Ernest A Zitser -- 12: Icon of female authority: the St Catherine image of 1721 / Gary Marker -- 13: Conspicuous consumption at the Court of Catherine the Great: Count Zakhar Chernyshev's snuffbox / Douglas Smith -- 14: Moving pictures: the optics of serfdom on the Russian estate / Thomas Newlin -- 15: Neither nobles nor peasants: plain painting and the emergence of the merchant estate / David L Ransel -- 16: Circles on a Square: the heart of St Petersburg culture in the early nineteenth century / Richard Stites -- 17: Alexander Ivanov's appearance of Christ to the people / Laura Engelstein -- 18: Lubki of emancipation / Richard Wortman -- 19: Folk art and social ritual / Alison Hilton -- 20: Personal and imperial: Fyodor Vasiliev's in the Crimean Mountains / Christopher Ely -- 21: Shop signs, monuments, souvenirs: views of the empire in everyday life / Willard Sunderland -- 22: Storming of Kars / Stephen M Norris -- 23: A O Karelin and provincial Bourgeois photography / Catherine Evtuhov -- 24: European fashion in Russia / Christine Ruane -- 25: Savior on the Waters church war memorial in St Petersburg / Nadieszda Kizenko -- 26: Workers in suits: performing the self / Mark D Steinberg -- 27: Visualizing masculinity: the male sex that was not one in Fin-de-Siecle Russia / Louise McReynolds -- 28: Pictographs of power: the 500-ruble note of 1912 / James Cracraft -- 29: Visualizing 1917 / William G Rosenberg -- 30: Looking at Tatlin's stove / Christina Kiaer -- 31: Soviet images of Jehovah in the 1920s / Robert Weinberg -- 32: National types / Francine Hirsch -- 33: Envisioning empire: veils and visual revolution in Soviet Central Asia / Douglas Northrop -- 34: Visual economy of forced labor: Alexander Rodchenko and the White Sea-Baltic Canal / Erika Wolf -- 35: Cinematic pastoral of the 1930s / Emma Widdis -- 36: Portrait of Lenin: carpets and national culture in Soviet Turkmenistan / Adrienne Edgar -- 37: Moscow metro / Mike O'Mahony -- 38: Soviet spectacle: the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition / Evgeny Dobrenko -- 39: Motherland calling? national symbols and the mobilization for war / Karen Petrone -- 40: Visual dialectics: murderous laughter in Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger -- 41: Soviet Jewish photographers confront World War II and the Holocaust / David Shneer -- 42: Morning of Our Motherland: Fyodor Shurpin's portrait of Stalin / Mark Bassin -- 43: Pioneer Palace in the Lenin Hills / Susan E Reid -- 44: Mikhail Romm's Ordinary Fascism / Josephine Woll -- 45: Solaris and the white, white screen / Lilya Kaganovsky -- 46: After Malevich-variations on the return to the Black Square / Jane A Sharp -- 47: Imagining Soviet rock: Akvarium's Triangle / Polly McMichael -- 48: Keeping the ancient piety: Old Believers and contemporary society / Roy R Robson and Elena B Smilianskaia -- 49: Viktor Vasnetsov's bogatyrs: mythic heroes and Sacrosanct borders go to market / Helena Goscilo -- 50: Landscape and vision at the White Sea-Baltic Canal / Michael Kunichika -- Chronology of Russian history -- Selected bibliography -- List of contributors -- Illustration credits -- Index
