Product Description: Among the many successes of the Soviet Union were inaugural space flight―ahead of the United States―and many other triumphs related to aviation. Aviators and cosmonauts enjoyed heroic status in the Soviet Union, and provided supports of the Soviet project with iconic figures which could be used to bolster the regime’s visions, self-confidence, and the image of itself as forward looking and futuristic...read more

Product Description: Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a crucial cultural figure in contemporary Russia, garnering both literary awards and best-seller status. Engaging with the past to combat the creeping authoritarianism of the Putin era, she has become the latest in a long line of Russian dissident authors championing the values of liberalism and tolerance while critiquing the state...read more

Product Description: Though in recent months Putin’s popularity has frayed at the edges, the dearth of comparably powerful and experienced political leaders leaves no doubt that he will continue to be a key political figure. During his tenure as Russia’s President and subsequently as Prime Minister, Putin transcended politics, to become the country’s major cultural icon...read more

Product Description: This remarkable collection brings together the best writers of the Russian literary renaissance, providing the English-speaking reader with the largest, most representative anthology of works published during the 1980s in the Soviet Union...read more

Product Description: Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction by Sibelan Forrester, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales is a selection of tales that draws from the famous collection of Aleksandr Afanas'ev, but also includes some tales from the lesser-known nineteenth-century collection of Ivan Khudiakov...read more

Product Description: After the fall of the Soviet empire, feminine roles in Russia shifted radically, resulting in a rich new body of women's literature. Featuring twenty-five diverse writers from this turbulent era, Lives in Transit is a collection of stories and poems that strive to make sense of the female experience...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality...read more

This encyclopedia examines Russian culture from 1953, Stalin's death, to the present day. Both ‘Russian’ and ‘Culture’ are defined broadly. Given the diversity of the Federation in its ethnic composition and regional characteristics, questions of national, regional, and ethnic identity receive special attention as do Russian-speaking immigrant communities. ‘Culture’ embraces all aspects of culture and lifestyle, high and popular, artistic and material: art, fashion, literature, music, cooking, transport, politics and economics, film, crime – all are covered to give a full picture of the Russian way of life through the extraordinary changes since the middle of the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture is an unbeatable resource on recent Russian culture and history for students, teachers, and researchers. It is a valuable acquisition for both academic and public libraries. Entries include cross-references and often short bibliographies. There is a full index.

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Product Description: This collection features Svetlana Vasilenko's novel Little Fool, nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. Rich in folklore, legend, and history, the story follows the transformation of Ganna, a girl from the Volga shores, into a modern-day Madonna...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "This release is an important contribution to the literary discourse about women’s lives, sexuality, politics and popular culture in early 20th-century Russia." —Publishers WeeklyOne of the most sensationally popular and influential of all pre-Revolutionary novels, Keys to Happiness is set against a panorama of Russian society on the eve of World War I...read more

This study of the work of Tatyana N. Tolstaya initiates the reader into the paradoxes of her fictional universe: a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory and death are subject. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 0-8133-1027-X the Soviet Nationality Reader : the Disintegration in Context

As young researcher Anton Lizavin attempts to piece together a biography of a turn-of-the-century writer, using only the candy wrappers upon which the author wrote, a mystery develops that paints a broad picture of the evolution of Russian society through the century

Product Description: This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women's development of popular culture and their ingenious reinventions of high literature...read more

Product Description: This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women’s development of "popular" culture and their ingenious reinventions of "high" literature...read more

Product Description: This anthology of contemporary prose and poetry reveals the thematic riches in Russian women's fiction during a turbulent era. The writers in this collection explore areas of human life that have stimulated impassioned debate among Western feminists, but provide a peculiarly Russian perspective on the material...read more

Product Description: This collection is a companion volume to Goscilo and Lindsey's highly praised Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev. Includes extensive introduction and notes. Contents: Vitaly Moskalenko, "The Wild Beach"; Yury Trifonov, "A Short Stay in the Torture Chamber"; Leonid Shorokhov, "The Lifeguard"; Alexander Ivanchenko, "Safety Measures"; Natalia Sukhanova, "Delos"; Daniil Granin, "The Forbidden Chapter"; Vyacheslav Kondratiev, "At Freedom Station"; Lyudmila Ulitskaya, "Lucky"; Boris Yekimov, "The Chelyadins' Son-in-Law"; Vladimir Tendryakov, "Donna Anna"; Nikolai Shmelyov, "The Fur Coat"; Boris Pyetsukh, "The Ticket" and "The New Factory...read more