Russia S Carnival

Author : Christoph Neidhart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742520420

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Russia's Carnival by Christoph Neidhart Pdf

This colorfully drawn and acutely observed book explores Russia by engaging all our senses. Today's Russia smells different from the Soviet Union. The country looks and sounds different, its touch is different and its food tastes different. Thus, Christoph Neidhart argues, Russia is truly a changed country from the Soviet Union it was, little more than a decade ago. Russian society is rapidly urbanizing and modernizing, as can be perceived by all senses, including the awareness of space and the conception of time. After almost a century, space can be privately owned and freely traded; time too has become commodified. New role models and new ways to express social status are emerging. Russia has become a 'monetized' economy as the old Soviet practice of provision by networking has grown obsolete. Russia thus readies itself gradually to grow into a Western-style, middle-class society with a free market and democratic polity. The author assesses these rapid changes using the evocative metaphor of the carnival to understand the chaotic inversion of the Communist structure of society. He explores the transition's traps and shortcomings--such as the privatization of politics and the looting of the state's assets--and compares this process to the modernization Western society underwent a century earlier.

Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521375207

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Petrushka by Catriona Kelly Pdf

Petrushka, the Russian equivalent of Punch and Judy, was one of the most popular spectacles at fairgrounds and in city courtyards for over a century. Catriona Kelly's study, the first to appear in English, traces the history of Petrushka, illustrating how it reflected the tensions of Russian urban life both before and after the Revolution. Written from a standpoint informed by literary theory, her book at the same time breaks open the categories traditionally applied, both in the Soviet Union and in the West, to the study of Russian literature and popular culture. Contemporary interpretations of Petrushka on the street, high-cultural appropriations of it for a bourgeois and intellectual readership (notably the famous ballet by Benois and Stravinsky), and adaptations made for agit-prop purposes are all analysed. Based on a wide range of unusual materials, this lively and very readable account will appeal not only to literary specialists, but also to those interested in cultural politics, folklore, women's studies and popular theatre.

Author : Vladislav Lektorsky,Marina F. Bykova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350040601

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Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Vladislav Lektorsky,Marina F. Bykova Pdf

Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century is the first book of its kind that offers a systematic overview of an often misrepresented period in Russia's philosophy. Focusing on philosophical ideas produced during the late 1950s – early 1990s, it reconstructs the development of genuine philosophical thought in the Soviet period and introduces those non-dogmatic Russian thinkers who saw in philosophy a means of reforming social and intellectual life. Covering such areas of philosophical inquiry as philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology, the history of philosophy, activity approach as well as communication and dialogue studies, the volume presents and thoroughly discusses central topics and concepts developed by Soviet thinkers in that particular fields. Written by a team of internationally recognized scholars from Russia and abroad, it examines the work of well-known Soviet philosophers (such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Evald Ilyenkov and Merab Mamardashvili) as well as those important figures (such as Vladimir Bibler, Alexander Zinoviev, Yury Lotman, Georgy Shchedrovitsky, Genrich Batishchev, Sergey Rubinstein, and others) who have often been overlooked. By introducing and examining original philosophical ideas that evolved in the Soviet period, the book confirms that not all Soviet philosophy was dogmatic and tied to orthodox Marxism and the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. It shows Russian philosophical development of the Soviet period in a new light, as a philosophy defined by a genuine discourse of exploration and intellectual progress, rather than stagnation and dogmatism. In addition to providing the historical and cultural background that explains the development of the 20th-century Russian philosophy, the book also puts the discussed ideas and theories in the context of contemporary philosophical discussions showing their relevance to nowadays debates in Western philosophy. With short biographies of key thinkers, an extensive current bibliography and a detailed chronology of Soviet philosophy, this research resource provides a new understanding of the Soviet period and its intellectual legacy 100 years after the Russian Revolution.

Author : Aleksandr Buzgalin,Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina,Andrey Kolganov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004532663

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Russia in the Context of Global Transformations by Aleksandr Buzgalin,Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina,Andrey Kolganov Pdf

In Russia in the Context of Global Transformations (Capitalism and Communism, Culture and Revolution), the authors focus on the dramatic changes in Russia’s socio-economic system over the past hundred years. The contradictions of Russia’s triumphs and tragedies are studied in connection with the shifts in the world economic system. Basing themselves on the views of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism, the authors show the causes and consequences of the main shifts in Russia’s development during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics addressed include the October Revolution, the contradictions of post-revolutionary development, the disintegration of the USSR, the collapse and stagnation during the post-USSR period and the prospects for overcoming contemporary problems.

Author : Craig Kridel
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452265766

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Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies by Craig Kridel Pdf

The study of curriculum, beginning in the early 20th century, first served the areas of school administration and teaching and was used to design and develop programs of study. The field subsequently expanded and drew upon disciplines from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine larger educational forces and their effects upon the individual, society, and conceptions of knowledge. Curriculum studies now embraces an array of academic scholarship in relation to personal and institutional needs and interests while it also focuses upon a diverse and complex dynamic among educational experiences, practices, settings, actions, and theories. The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies provides a comprehensive introduction to the academic field of curriculum studies for the scholar, student, teacher, and administrator. This two-volume set serves to inform and to introduce terms, events, documents, biographies, and concepts to assist the reader in understanding aspects of this rapidly changing, expansive, and contested field of study. Key Features Displays different perspectives by having authors contribute independent essays on the nature and future of curriculum studies Presents a unique and in-depth treatment of the Twenty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE), a 1927 publication that has taken on legendary dimensions for the field of curriculum studies Contains bibliographic entries which feature specific publications by curriculum leaders that helped to define the field Helps readers to learn unfamiliar terms and concepts, to become more comfortable with specialized phrases, and to understand the many significant and perplexing concepts and questions that characterize the field Key Themes Biography and Prosopography Concepts and Terms Content Descriptions Influences on Curriculum Studies Inquiry and Research Nature of Curriculum Studies Organizations, Schools, and Projects Publications Theoretical Perspectives Types of Curricula The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies offers the careful reader a surprisingly revealing depiction of the conventions, mores, and accepted research and writing practices of the field of curriculum studies as it continues to expand and change. Availability in print and electronic formats provides students with convenient, easy access, wherever they may be.

Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253203414

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Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin Pdf

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

Author : Marcia A. Morris
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810117533

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The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Russia by Marcia A. Morris Pdf

This study of the flowering and the antecedents of the picaresque in 17th century Russia seeks to offer new insight into both the genre and its broad appeal to Russian readers. Morris resurrects 18th century picaresques, revealing their fusion of Western and indigenous aesthetics.

Author : Theo D’haen,Rainer Grübel,Helmut Lethen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027278340

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Convention and Innovation in Literature by Theo D’haen,Rainer Grübel,Helmut Lethen Pdf

This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: (1) the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and (2) systems theory. The merits of both approaches are discussed and an attempt is made to combine them and to regard systems of literary communication primarily as systems of conventions. Specific cases of changing conventions and innovation are illustrated with examples from the field of versification (Rimbaud), reception studies (Puskin, Goethe, George Eliot), the dichotomy of forgetting/remembering (Nietzsche, Proust), avant-garde, the American dream, and popular genres assimilated in Postmodernism.

Author : Amelia Glaser
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810127968

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Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands by Amelia Glaser Pdf

Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser shows how writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish during much of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were in intense conversation with one another. The marketplace was both the literal locale at which members of these different societies and cultures interacted with one another and a rich subject for representation in their art. It is commonplace to note the influence of Gogol on Russian literature, but Glaser shows him to have been a profound influence on Ukrainian and Yiddish literature as well. And she shows how Gogol must be understood not only within the context of his adopted city of St. Petersburg but also that of his native Ukraine. As Ukrainian and Yiddish literatures developed over this period, they were shaped by their geographical and cultural position on the margins of the Russian Empire. As distinctive as these writers may seem from one another, they are further illuminated by an appreciation of their common relationship to Russia. Glaser’s book paints a far more complicated portrait than scholars have traditionally allowed of Jewish (particularly Yiddish) literature in the context of Eastern European and Russian culture.

Author : James Patrick Scanlan
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1563243881

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Russian Thought After Communism by James Patrick Scanlan Pdf

An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole.

Author : Katharina Hansen Löve
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004647893

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The Evolution of Space in Russian Literature by Katharina Hansen Löve Pdf

This book is concerned with the literary development of the narrative category of space in Russian literature from Romanticism until Modernism. It consists of two parts. The theoretical introduction renders a survey of some major 20-th century theories on literary development in the tradition of Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism. A critical discussion is given of the cultural and stylistic typologies of the soviet scholar D. Lichacev and the semiotician I. Smirnov. Furthermore, the ideas on literary space, as they were developed by two important representatives of the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics, Ju.Lotman and V.Toporov, are described together with the method of literary analysis they offer. The contents of the second part of the book are analyses of the structure of space in the following narrative works: Mcyri by M.Ju. Lermontov, Nevskij prospekt by N.V. Gogol, Oblomov by I.A. Goncarov, V tolpe by F. Sologub and Kotlovan by A. Platonov. The analyses are accompanied by an interpretation of the story based on the spatial details in the text. It appears that both continuity and change characterize the development of literary space. This two-fold nature of the evolutionary proces comes to the fore through recurrence of spatial archetypes in all the periods under discussion and through ambivalence of meaning as a result of the semiotization of literary space in each literary work.

Author : Leonid Plyushch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002132903

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History's Carnival by Leonid Plyushch Pdf

Author : E. Anthony Swift
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520225947

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Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia by E. Anthony Swift Pdf

"This is the fullest and most richly detailed study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift brings alive the world of Ostrovsky, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as he examines the origins and significance of the new 'people's theaters' that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change."--Cover leaf.

Author : Christoph Witzenrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110696431

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The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480–1725 by Christoph Witzenrath Pdf

The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and by embracing the New Israel symbolism in which the exodus from slavery in Egypt prefigures the exodus of Russian captives from Tatar captivity, Muscovites found a defensive model to expand empire. Recent scholarly debates on slaving are innovatively applied to Russian and imperial history, challenging entrenched perceptions of Muscovy.

Author : T. Landini,F. Dépelteau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137312143

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Norbert Elias and Empirical Research by T. Landini,F. Dépelteau Pdf

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will address Norbert Elias's approach to empirical research, the use of his work in empirical research, and compare him with other theorists.