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Author : Мариэтта Сергеевна Шагинян
Release : 1991
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Mess-mend, Yankees in Petrograd by : Мариэтта Сергеевна Шагинян
Download or read book Mess-mend, Yankees in Petrograd written by Мариэтта Сергеевна Шагинян. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milla Fedorova
Release : 2013-03-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York by : Milla Fedorova
Download or read book Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York written by Milla Fedorova. This book was released on 2013-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of America as the Other World at the moment of transition from the Russian to the Soviet version. The material on which Milla Fedorova bases her study comprises a curious phenomenon of the waning nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—pilgrimages to America by prominent Russian writers who then created travelogues. The writers' missions usually consisted of two parts: the physical journey, which most of the writers considered as ideologically significant, and the literary fruit of the pilgrimages. Until now, the American travelogue has not been recognized and studied as a particular kind of narration with its own canons. Arguing that the primary cultural model for Russian writers' journey to America is Dante's descent into Hell, Federova ultimately reveals how America is represented as the country of "dead souls" where objects and machines have exchanged places with people, where relations between the living and the dead are inverted.
Author : Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Release : 1997
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture by : Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Download or read book The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture written by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.
Author : Richard Bradford
Release : 2015
Genre : Crime in literature
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crime Fiction by : Richard Bradford
Download or read book Crime Fiction written by Richard Bradford. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-19th century crime fiction has been one of the most popular sub-genres of the novel. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Bradford explores its origins and the features that define its varied style. He considers its role in popular culture around the world and considers why its classification as "literature" is still ambiguous.
Author : Catherine Walworth
Release : 2017-10-10
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Soviet Salvage by : Catherine Walworth
Download or read book Soviet Salvage written by Catherine Walworth. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life. Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”—illustrate, respectively, the canonical Constructivists and artists on the movement’s margins who deployed a wide range of clever make-do tactics. Walworth explores the relationships of Nadezhda Lamanova, Esfir Shub, and others with Constructivists such as Aleksei Gan, Varvara Stepanova, and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Together, the work of these artists reflected the chaotic and often contradictory zeitgeist of the decade from 1918 to 1929 and redefined the concept of mass production. Reappropriated fragments of a former enemy era provided a wide range of play and possibility for these artists, and the resulting propaganda porcelain, film, fashion, and architecture tell a broader story of the unique political and economic pressures felt by their makers. An engaging multidisciplinary study of objects and their makers during the Soviet Union’s early years, this volume highlights a group of artists who hover like free radicals at the border of existing art-historical discussions of Constructivism and deepens our knowledge of Soviet art and material culture.
