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Turgenev and Russian culture : essays to honour Richard Peace /

Table of Contents: “…Turgenev and Russian Culture; Contents; Richard Peace: An Appreciation; Introduction: Turgenev and Russian Culture; Death and the Maiden: Narrative, Space, Gender and Identity in Asia; 'The Poetry of Moscow Existence': An Analysis of N.M. …”
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Global Russian cultures /

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Jewishness in Russian Culture : Within and Without. by Katsis, Leonid

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The Petrine revolution in Russian culture / by Cracraft, James

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Libertinage in Russian culture and literature : a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / by Lalo, Alexei

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The American YMCA and Russian culture : the preservation and expansion of Orthodox Christianity, 1900-1940 / by Miller, Matthew Lee, 1968-

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For Humanity's Sake : the Bildungsroman in Russian Culture. by Steiner, Lina

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Culture (Obrazovanie, Bildung) and the Bildungsroman on Russian Soil -- 1 Russian Literature from the National Awakening of the 1800s to the Rise of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s -- 2 Apollon Grigor'ev's Theory of Russian Culture -- 3 Yurii Lotman's Idea of the ' Semiosphere' -- 4 The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness -- Part II: Nineteenth-Century Russian Novels of Emergence -- 5 Pushkin's Quest for National Culture: The Captain's Daughter as a Russian Bildungsroman -- 6 Educating Russia, Building Humanity: Tolstoy's War and Peace -- 7 Dostoevsky on Individual Reform and National Reconciliation: The Adolescent -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Russian Texts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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The Soviet Mind : Russian Culture under Communism. by Hardy, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword to the Brookings Classic Edition; Editor's Introduction to the First Edition; Editor's Introduction to the Brookings Classic Edition; The Arts in Russia Under Stalin: December 1945; A Visit to Leningrad: 1945; A Great Russian Writer: 1965; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak: 1980; Boris Pasternak: 1958; Why the Soviet Union Chooses to Insulate Itself: 1946; The Artificial Dialectic: Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government 1952; Four Weeks in the Soviet Union: 1956; Soviet Russian Culture: 1957.…”
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Russian Cultural Anthropology Since the Collapse of Communism.

Table of Contents: “…7 Believers' letters as advertising: St Xenia of Petersburg's 'National Reception Centre'8 'The yellow peril' as seen in contemporary church culture; 9 'Don't look at them, they're nasty': photographs of funerals in Russian culture; 10 Historical Zaryadye as remembered by locals: cultural meanings of city spaces; 11 Yerevan: memory and forgetting in the organisation of post-Soviet urban space; Name index; Subject index…”
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Prodigal son : Vasilii Shukshin in Soviet Russian culture / by Givens, John, 1962-

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Political animal : representing dogs in modern Russian culture / Representing dogs in modern Russian culture by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Vladimir Durov's dog story: A thematic capsule; Introduction; Dog stories; How to approach the dog stories in Russian culture; Examining dog stories; Chapter structure; PART ONE: EXPLORING CRUELTY, INJUSTICE, AND THE SHIFTING HIERARCHIES BETWEEN DOGS AND HUMANS; Chapter 1. …”
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The icon and the axe ; an interpretive history of Russian culture / by Billington, James H.

Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / by Gasparov, B.

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Ghostly paradoxes : modern spiritualism and Russian culture in the age of realism / by Vinit︠s︡kiĭ, I. I︠U︡. (Ilʹi︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevich), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A new world : modern spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s -- Seance as test, or, Russian writers at a spiritualist rendezvous -- Russian glubbdubdrib : the shade of false Dimitry and Russian historical imagination in the age of realism -- Dead poets' society : Pushkin's shade in Russian cultural mythology of the second half of the nineteenth century -- Flickering hands : the spiritualist realism of Nikolai Vagner -- The middle world : the realist spiritualism of Saltykov-Schedrin -- The underworld : Dostoevsky's ontological realism -- The (dis)infection : art and hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy -- Epilogue: The spirit of literature : reflections on Leskov's artistic spiritualism.…”
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Five operas and a symphony : word and music in Russian culture / by Gasparov, B.

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Exemplary Bodies : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

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Tsar and God and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics / by Uspenskiĭ, Boris Andreevich

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Snapshots of the soul : photo-poetic encounters in modern Russian culture / by Blasing, Molly Thomasy

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A people passing rude : British responses to Russian culture /

Table of Contents: “…By Way of Introduction: British Reception, Perception and Recognition of Russian Culture /…”
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True songs of freedom : Uncle Tom's cabin in Russian culture and society / by MacKay, John (John Kenneth)

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The Soviet mind : Russian culture under communism / by Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997

Table of Contents: “…The arts in Russia under Stalin -- A visit to Leningrad -- A great Russian writer -- Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Boris Pasternak -- Why the Soviet Union chooses to insulate itself -- The artificial dialectic : Generalissimo Stalin and the art of government -- Four weeks in the Soviet Union -- Soviet Russian culture -- The survival of the Russian intelligentsia.…”
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Framing Mary : the Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture /

Table of Contents: “…At every time and in every place : the Mother of God in modern Russian culture / Vera Shevzov and Amy Singleton Adams -- More numerous than the stars in heaven : an early eighteenth-century multimedia compendium of Mariology / Elena N. …”
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First Epoch : the Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination. by Golburt, Luba

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Lingua cosmica : science fiction from around the world

Table of Contents: “…Arkady and Boris Strugatsky : The Science-Fictionality of Russian Culture /…”
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"No religion higher than truth" : a history of the Theosophical movement in Russia, 1875-1922 by Carlson, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Afterword: Theosophy's Impact on Fin de Siècle Russian Culture --…”
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The Holy Russian Church and western Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Significance of the baptism of Rus' in the development of Russian culture /…”

Shapes of apocalypse : arts and philosophy in Slavic thought

“…Myths and taboos in Russian culture.…”
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Belomor : criminality and creativity in Stalin's Gulag by Draskoczy, Julie S.

“…Myths and taboos in Russian culture.…”
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Early modern Russian letters : texts and contexts : selected essays by Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Sumarokov and the literary process of his time -- Visuality and orthodoxy in eighteenth-century Russian culture.…”
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Russia Abroad : a Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939. by Raeff, Marc

Table of Contents: “…To Keep and to Cherish: What Is Russian Culture?; 6. The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Church and Religion in the Diaspora; 7. …”
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Fallacy Of Silver Age. by Ronen, Omry

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Between religion and rationality : essays in Russian literature and culture by Frank, Joseph, 1918-2013

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Culture and communication : signs in flux : an anthology of major and lesser-known works by Lotman, I︠U︡. M. (I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich), 1922-1993

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Dual Models in the Dynamics of Russian Culture -- The Symbolism of Petersburg and the Problems of Semiotics of the City -- The Duel -- A Woman's World.…”
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The visual dominant in eighteenth-century Russia by Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: An archaeology of vision -- Prolegomena: Making Russia visible -- The moment of the muses: Lomonosov's odes -- Bogovidenie: Orthodox vision and the odes -- The staging of the self -- Virtue must advertise: The ethics of vision -- The seen, the unseen, and the obvious -- The icon that started a riot -- The dialectic of vision in Radishchev's journey -- Conclusion: Russian culture as a mirage.…”
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Other Russias : homosexuality and the crisis of post-Soviet identity by Baer, Brian James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: An embarrassment of meanings -- Russian gays / Western gaze : mapping the (homo)sexual landscape of post-Soviet Russia -- Making a spectacle of homosexuality : the problem of gay (in)visibility -- The other within us : homosexual panic and the post-Soviet detektiv -- Resurrecting the spiritual homosexual : homosexuality and Russian cultural citizenship -- Perversion, inversion, and literary forebears : homosexuality and the search for a post-Soviet aesthetics.…”
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Passport Russia : Your Pocket Guide to Russian Business, Customs and Etiquette. by Mitchell, Charles

Table of Contents: “…""Table of Contents""; ""RUSSIA Quick Look""; ""Country Facts""; ""The Russians""; ""Cultural Stereotypes""; ""Regional Differences""; ""Government & Business""; ""The Work Environment""; ""Women in Business""; ""Making Connections""; ""Strategies for Success""; ""Time""; ""Business Meetings""; ""Negotiating with Russians""; ""Business Outside the Law""; ""Names & Greetings""; ""Communication Styles""; ""Customs""; ""Dress & Appearance""; ""Reading the Russians""; ""Entertaining""; ""Socializing""; ""Basic Russian Phrases""; ""Correspondence""; ""Useful Telephone Numbers""…”
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Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia by Schönle, Andreas

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Understanding Russianness. by Alapuro, Risto

Table of Contents: “…6 From a mother's worry to Soldiers' Mothers' action: building collective action on personal concerns7 Opposition substitutes: reflections on the collective action in support of the European University at St Petersburg; 8 Political culture in Russia from a local perspective; 9 Soviet modernity: the case of Soviet fashion; PART III Culture; 10 Spiritus loci: two East Karelian folklore epic traditions; 11 Autogenesis in Russian culture: an approach to the avant-garde; 12 Two hundred years of poshlost': a historical sketch of the concept.…”
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