Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings of Vasily Surikov and Viktor Vasnetsov, two of the most important Russian…

Cities are constructed and organized by people, and in turn become an important factor in the organization of human life. They are sites of both social encounter and social division…

From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer…

Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, this work highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. It explores the us…

Fedor Bondarchuk’s 2013 blockbuster film Stalingrad shattered box-office records and dazzled viewers with its use of special effects, enhanced by its 3D IMAX format, and transported audiences back to 1942…

The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia’s policymaking.