This dissertation examines literary style and problematics of genre in the writing of Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born …
A genre of classical ballet, Soviet drama-ballet is viewed and understood as a product of 1930s Stalinist culture. Its role has been diminished in prior …
The relationship between food and the public changed drastically between the early years of the Russian revolution and Stalin’s rise to power. This essay explores …
Abstract of Harming and Healing: Narrative Medical Ethics, and the Possible in Doctors' Case Histories, Memoirs, and Stories in Late Imperial Russia, by Natalia Vygovskaia, …
This dissertation examines the cases of contact between Russian and Czech culture using a constructivist approach to nationalism, and demonstrates the role of individual personalities …
This study explores the historical lack of an affirmative discourse of matrimonial sexuality in Russian Orthodoxy and religious thought. The study makes the case that …
This dissertation analyses the rehabilitation of the Russian Empire’s belle epoque, c.1905-1917, in Putin’s Russia. Engaging with the canon of memory studies, I create a …
Abstract of Performing The Communist Myths: The Afterlife Of An Orphaned Myth by Ksenia Keren Faingersh, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2014 This thesis explores the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to facilitate a better understanding of the connection between Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and Russian …
Weaving together literature, historical texts, and feminist theory, this study follows the development of the tradition of Russian women's writing and depictions of the everyday …
An investigation into theories and practices of realism, documentary aesthetics and anticapitalist political critique in contemporary Russian cinema via a historical overview and close readings …
This dissertation analyses the role of photography during the Stalinist period and its subsequent evolution through to the fall of the USSR. I begin the …
Exile, space, and place occupy a central locus not only in the sociohistoric fabric of Slavic nations but also within their literary traditions. The issue …
My dissertation examines the critical and scholarly reception of the influence of Nikolai Gogol on the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky from the mid-nineteenth century to …
What is the significance of the poetic riddle in eighteenth-century Russia? The first Russian poetic riddle appeared in 1755. In this study, the evolution of …
This study revisits a well-known, but long-ignored Russian literary type—the so-called “superfluous man”—who emerges out of Russia’s growing pains in response to the French Revolution, …
Bringing to the discussion unreprinted and uncollected articles and essays of Vladislav Khodasevich, in addition to the existing editions of his literary criticism, this dissertation …
