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The growth of Soviet music in the scope of Chinese cinema in the early period of the establishment of New China: an example of the interlude “Oh, the snowball tree is in blossom” in the film and television works of Ivan Perilyev
In the early days of the founding of New China, there was an international situation with close political contact between China and the Soviet Union....
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Unearthing the Legacy: Contrasting Soviet Imprints on Early NGOs in Lithuania
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), operating through the initiative of people, are valuable resources in contemporary economies and have grown...
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Censorship in the Soviet Union
The article provides a historical and conceptual overview of censorship, one of the foundational institutions of the Soviet state. Censorship was...
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The music of the dying class: jazz as the impure sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia
This paper uses the general framework of the Strong Program to analyse popular music criticism and reconstruct the cultural codes of Stalinism in...
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The Music of the Dying Class: Jazz as the Impure Sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia
This chapter uses the general framework of the Strong Program to analyze popular music criticism and reconstruct the cultural codes of Stalinism in...
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Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the Soviet Union (1948–1958)
Alla Myzelev’s contribution analyzes representations of the counter-cultural Soviet Stiliagi movement and foregrounds its importance for shifts in...
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Ronald Reagan’s Faith and Attack on Soviet Communism
Ronald Reagan’s religious faith is a subject that, until recently, has received almost no serious attention. Not until 2004 was a scholarly treatment...
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The Holocaust and Screen Memories of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema
Like forgetting and amnesia, Freud described ‘screen memories’ as a compromise between the repression of a traumatic memory and an effort of the ego...
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The Conflict of Photographic and Cinematographic Representations of War in Soviet Lithuania
The Cold War that shaped the societies of late modernity had penetrated everyday life with constant messages about the nuclear threat and...
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A Comparison of FSU Jews and Non-FSU Jews in the USA
The Pew Research Center’s study “Jewish Americans in 2020” (Pew 2020) found that about 10% (750,000) of American Jews were born in the former Soviet...
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Changing language policies and ideologies in Kazakhstan: an interview-based study
Language plays a critical role in society. In the Soviet Union, Russian language was leveraged as a key strategy to unify the fifteen Soviet...
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Developments in Russian Literature: Examining the Pre- and Post-Soviet Prose of Kazakh-Russian Writer Anatoly Kim
In this chapter, Pałach-Rydzy presents the work of prose writer Anatoly Kim, whose Kazakh, Russian, and Korean roots offer inspiration for...
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Indigenous People and Traditional Music in the Historical Context of the Czech Lands
The geographic location of Czech lands was the reason for permanent cultural confrontation of the Czech and German ethnic groups. Czech lands were a...
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Divergent Views on the Historical and Present Relation of Shamanism and Islam in International Post-Colonialist Scholarship
In light of the long, complex history of Tsarist and Soviet ethnography among the Central Asian Muslim peoples, the question of ‘pre-Islamic...
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The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites
The acoustics of the Lower Chuya River area rock art landscape are analyzed through both the exploration of its acoustic properties and the...
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Study of Polyphonic Music of National Minorities Through the Historical Perspective
In many countries, minorities occupy geographically isolated regions. When big states established borders, they naturally chose geographically...
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Connecting Ethnicity and Space: the New Russian-Mediterranean Pop Culture in Israel’s Periphery
This ethnographic study explores the co-influences between urban spaces and ethnic hierarchies in the pop-cultural creations of Russian-speaking...
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State Policies Regarding Sexual Minorities in Russia: From Russian Empire to Modern Day Russian Federation
This article is dedicated to detailed analysis of the historic context of Russian governmental policies regarding homosexual minorities. The main...
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From Non-conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the 1970s to Today
This chapter explores artistic trends and styles in works by Russian women artists from the Bulldozer Exhibition in 1974 to today through the work of...