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  • The Texture of Culture

    An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory

    by A. Semenenko ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Soviet Myth in Post-Soviet Russia

    Edited by Maria Engström, Aleksei Semenenko ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is “recycled” and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity; and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension to the sphere of myth.These processes, conceptualized under the term “Soviet myth,” are crucial for ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia

    Edited by Aleksei Semenenko ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book studies satirical protest in today’s Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are there? Is there State-sanctioned satire? Can satire be associated with propaganda? How is satire related to myth? Is ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • C# Interview Guide

    Boost your confidence with answers to hundreds of secret interview questions

    by Konstantin Semenenko ...
    Catapult your C\# journey with this guide to crafting standout resumes, mastering advanced concepts, and navigating job offers with real-world insights for unparalleled success in programming and interviewsKey FeaturesAcquire a strong foundation in syntax, data types, and object-oriented programming to code confidentlyDevelop strategies for addressing behavioral questions, tackle technical ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series In-Formation
    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

    Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire

    by Madina Tlostanova ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Russia on the Edge

    Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

    by Edith W. Clowes ...
    Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Post-communist Nostalgia

    Edited by Maria Todorova, Zsuzsa Gille ...
    Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • East European Cinemas

    Edited by Anikó Imre ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Eastern Europe has produced rich and varied film cultures--Czech, Hungarian, and Serbian among them-whose histories have been intimately tied to the transition from Soviet domination to the complexities of post-Communist life. This latest volume in the AFI Film Readers series presents a long-overdue reassessment of East European cinemas from theoretical, psychoanalytic, and gender perspectives, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War

    by Emma Widdis ...
    In 1917 the Bolsheviks proclaimed a world remade. The task of the new regime, and of the media that served it, was to reshape the old world in revolutionary form, to transform the vast, "ungraspable" space of the Russian Empire into the mapped territory of the Soviet Union. This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support for state initiatives in the years between the revolution and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD