European Studies: Eastern European Studies (13)

• Biography
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• History

Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life

• Michael Hughes

Michael Hughes’s groundbreaking new biography provides a vivid history of this notable but hitherto neglected figure of both the political and literary worlds. Based on ten years of research in archives across the world and drawing on sources in multiple languages, this masterful biography explores how Feliks Volkhovskii’s life illuminates broader intellectual and historical questions about the Russian revolutionary movement. It is essential reading for anyone interested in late Imperial Russia and the Russian revolution.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• Literature
• Literature: Comparative Literature

Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context

• Muireann Maguire
• Cathy McAteer

Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of Russian literature across the globe.

• Archaeology and Religion
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• Visual Arts

How Divine Images Became Art: Essays on the Rediscovery, Study and Collecting of Medieval Icons in the Belle Époque

• Oleg Tarasov
• Stella Rock

How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the cultural history of the continent in the pre-war period.

• Environmental Studies
• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• Politics and Sociology

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

• Eszter Krasznai Kovacs

This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• Literature

Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature

• Timothy Langen
• Muireann Maguire

This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of ‘anticipatory plagiarism’—developed in the 1960s by the ‘Oulipo’ group of French writers and thinkers—as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, its contributors ask us to consider how reading against linear chronologies can elicit fascinating new patterns and perspectives.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• History
• Literature
• Other languages

The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust

• Maurice Wolfthal

Originally written in Yiddish and here skillfully translated and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal, The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 brings to light a terrible and historically neglected series of persecutions that foreshadowed the Holocaust by twenty years. It is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of human rights, Jewish studies, Russian and Soviet studies, and Ukraine studies.

• Anthropology
• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies

Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond

• David G. Anderson
• Dmitry V Arzyutov
• Sergei S. Alymov

Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• History

Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854

• Simon Franklin
• Katherine Bowers

From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• Visual Arts

Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives

• Louise Hardiman
• Nicola Kozicharow

This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ten chapters from emerging and established voices offer new perspectives on Kandinsky and other familiar names, such as Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and introduce less well-known figures, such as the Georgian artists Ucha Japaridze and Lado Gudiashvili, and the craftswoman and art promoter Aleksandra Pogosskaia.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• Literature

Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon

• Katharine Hodgson
• Joanne Shelton
• Alexandra Smith

The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• History
• Reference Books

In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917)

• Anthony Cross

Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. Ranging chronologically from 1613 to 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.

• Archaeology and Religion
• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• History
• History: International Relations
• Literature

Beyond Holy Russia: The Life and Times of Stephen Graham

• Michael Hughes

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across much of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, and his writings about his adventures helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the US. In later years he travelled widely in Europe and America, meeting some of the best known writers of his day. Tracing Graham’s career as a world traveller, this book explores Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest, while also providing a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Eastern European Studies
• History
• Literature
• Women and Gender Studies

Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture

• Wendy Rosslyn
• Alessandra Tosi

Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations, but their real counterparts are now becoming much better understood as active contributors to Russia’s varied cultural landscape. This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia – from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia – discussing their interaction with the church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and collectively, developed a dynamic but often overlooked presence in nineteenth-century Russia’s culture and society.