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Author : Elena V. Baraban
Release : 2021
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Book Rating : 761/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Akunin Project by : Elena V. Baraban
Download or read book Akunin Project written by Elena V. Baraban. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.
Author : Pavel Khazanov
Release : 2023
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Russia that We Have Lost by : Pavel Khazanov
Download or read book The Russia that We Have Lost written by Pavel Khazanov. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the tsar of Russia and established a new, communist government, one that viewed the Imperial Russia of old as a righteously vanquished enemy. And yet, as Pavel Khazanov shows, after the collapse of Stalinism, a reconfiguration of Imperial Russia slowly began to emerge, recalling the culture of tsarist Russia not as a disgrace but as a glory, a past to not only remember but to recover, and to deploy against what to many seemed like a discredited socialist project. Khazanov's careful untangling of this discourse in the late Soviet period reveals a process that involved figures of all political stripes, from staunch conservatives to avowed intelligentsia liberals. Further, Khazanov shows that this process occurred not outside of or in opposition to Soviet guidance and censorship, but in mainstream Soviet culture that commanded wide audiences, especially among the Soviet middle class. Excavating the cultural logic of this newly foundational, mythic memory of a "lost Russia," Khazanov reveals why, despite the apparently liberal achievement of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Boris Yeltsin (and later, Vladamir Putin) successfully steered Russia into oligarchy and increasing autocracy. The anti-Soviet memory of the pre-Soviet past, ironically constructed during the late socialist period, became and remains a politically salient narrative, a point of consensus that surprisingly attracts both contemporary regime loyalists and their would-be liberal opposition.
Author : Yordan Ljutskanov
Release : 2014-06-19
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Russian Classical Literature Today by : Yordan Ljutskanov
Download or read book Russian Classical Literature Today written by Yordan Ljutskanov. This book was released on 2014-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture. It outlines processes of current canon-formation in a situation of the expiration of a literature-centric culture that has been imbued with specific messianism and its doubles. The book implements Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the cultural field, focussing on a field’s constitutive pursuit of autonomy and on its flexible resistance to the double pressure of the political field and the economic field. It provides material for elaborating this theory through postulating the principal presence of a third factor of heteronomy: the ‘strong neighbour’ within the cultural field. Furthermore, this volume demonstrates the heuristic of comparing the current Russian (mis)uses of classical literature to prior Russian and current foreign ones. As such, it also discusses such issues as the historical relativity of a literary field’s (notion of) autonomy and the geo-cultural variability of the Russian literary canon.
Author : Boris Akunin
Release : 2006
Genre : Detective and mystery stories
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Book Synopsis The Turkish Gambit by : Boris Akunin
Download or read book The Turkish Gambit written by Boris Akunin. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877, Erast Fandorin finds himself at the Bulgarian front in a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, where he assists a Russian woman who is risking her life for her fiancé, who has been falsely accused of espionage.
Author : Megan Swift
Release : 2022-05-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Revolutionary Aftereffects by : Megan Swift
Download or read book Revolutionary Aftereffects written by Megan Swift. This book was released on 2022-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1917 Revolution still looms large: not only because Russians remain divided over whether the revolution arrived forcibly or inevitably and whether it was a colossally tragic or colossally generative event, but also because its social, cultural, scientific, and even moral residues remain everywhere in Putin’s Russia. Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the ways in which 1917 has been and continues to be commemorated in Russia. Although post-Soviet Russia has emphasized its complete break with the past, this study of the memorialization and legacy of 1917 explores a fundamental continuity underlying an apparent discourse of discontinuity in post-socialist Russia. Contributors provide insight into the continuing reverberations of the revolution from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history and literary studies as well as heritage studies, anthropology, geography, and sociology. Collectively, these essays demonstrate the changing nature of the revolution’s memorialization in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and the ambivalence and contradictions within those narratives.
