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Was it being constantly invaded? Stalinist terror? The obscene arms race? Plain old ennui?
2010 •
Gender & History
Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cosy Homes in the Khrushchev Era2009 •
Pop and Politics in Late Soviet Society
Pop and Politics in Late Soviet Society2018 •
Papers of the International Conference “Pop-Up Culture: Popular and Mass Culture in Late Soviet Society” (at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, January 24 – 25, 2013).
Each volume in the series Annals of Communism will publish selected and previously inaccessible documents from former Soviet state and party archives in a narrative that develops a particular topic in the history of Soviet and international communism. Separate English and Russian editions will be prepared. Russian and Western scholars work together to prepare the documents for each volume. Documents are chosen not for their support of any single interpretation but for their particular historical importance or their general value in deepening understanding and facilitating discussion. The volumes are designed to be useful to students, scholars, and interested general readers.
The Journal of Modern History
Soviet and Russian Masculinities: Rethinking Soviet Fatherhood after Stalin and Renewing Virility in the Russian Nation under Putin*2020 •
Vladimir Putin’s macho image and his deployment of a masculinized Russian nationalism have fascinated Russians and non-Russians alike, generating considerable public and scholarly analysis. This article argues that the appeal of Putin as a powerful and hypermasculine leader over the last twenty years is best understood not just in the larger geopolitical context of Russia’s national and economic decline in the 1990s but also in terms of Soviet and post-Soviet discourses of failed manhood. In particular, this work focuses on the widespread critique of men as fathers in the 1950s and 1960s and the accompanying campaign to create a new model of Soviet fatherhood, aiming to make men into “family men” and better fathers. The construction of the new ideal father—actively engaged in household tasks and child-rearing—challenged the Soviet gender order and contributed to the development of a domestic and family-oriented model of Communist manhood. Although it is primarily an investigation of...
2019 •
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Western-established dichotomy between style and ideology, embodied by modernism and realism, was dominant. This dichotomy tended to suppress, marginalize or ostracize realism in the Soviet Union by reducing it to the leftist political project. This dissertation presents a critical reassessment of realism in the Soviet Union by challenging its representation as a monolithic phenomenon through the analysis of hyperrealism in the 1970s and 1980s. My analyses of Ando Keskküla, Jaan Elken, Semyon Faibisovich and Sergei Sherstiuk's hyperrealist artworks, based on Yuri Lotman's semiotic theory of culture, show the influence on their artistic production of the social and cultural system of signs of the Soviet society, as displayed in architecture, means of transport, and housing, along with the artist's personal agenda. Rather than the idealized conditions promoted by official doctrine, these artists adopted a unique strategy to subvert the predominan...
European Journal of Communication
Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West2013 •
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
The Desirable Things of Ogoniok: The Material Face of a Soviet Illustrated Magazine from Stalin to Brezhnev2016 •
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
The Occident Within—or the Drive for Exceptionalism and Modernity2008 •
2015 •
2008 •
DISINFORMATION FORMER SPY CHIEF REVEALS SECRET STRATEGIES FOR UNDERMINING FREEDOM, ATTACKING RELIGION, AND PROMOTING TERRORISM
DISINFORMATION2008 •
2017 •
Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies
15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory2008 •
International Journal For History Culture and Modernity
Makeshift Modernity. DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s2014 •
International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
Makeshift Modernity2014 •
Cahiers du monde russe
From “counter‑revolutionary monuments” to “national heritage”2013 •
Journal of Migration History
At ‘Home’ Away from ‘Home’: The ex-Ottoman Armenian Refugees and the Limits of Belonging in Soviet Armenia2020 •