Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and
dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in …

In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival
sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass …

Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying
to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Make It the Same …

This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a
new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period …

Literature that was self-published and informally circulated in the former Soviet Union in
order to evade censorship, in addition to prosecution of its authors, came to be known as …

Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating
how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the …

Since the early twentieth century, nations around the world have set aside protected areas
for tourism, recreation, scenery, wildlife, and habitat conservation. In Russia, biologists and …

After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic
movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of …

This paper aims to observe, contextualize, and analyze the multifaceted religious fungal
foundations of Moscow Conceptualism within the context of Slavic and European esoteric …

Nostalgic memories are histories of the future. Even before I begin to explain that sentence,
some readers may feel a nagging concern, for the very term 'nostalgia'is usually understood …