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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Russia’s size, the diversity of its peoples, and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward- and outward-looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of this Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture, and the unique Russian contributions to the arts. Each of the twelve chapters has been revised or entirely rewritten to take account of current cultural conditions, and the “further reading” list brought up to date. The book reveals, for students, academic researchers, and all those interested in Russia, the dilemmas, strengths, and complexities of the Russian cultural experience. nicholas rzhevsky is Professor and Chairman of the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information Cambridge Companions to Culture The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture Edited by Christopher Bigsby The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture Edited by Michael Higgins, Clarissa Smith and John Storey The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture Edited by Nicholas Hewitt The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture Edited by Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture Edited by Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture Edited by Zygmunt G. 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Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1998 Second edition 2012 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library isbn 978-1-107-00252-4 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-17558-6 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations vii List of contributors ix Chronology xiii Note on names and transliteration xlv 1 Russian cultural history: introduction 1 nicholas rzhevsky part i cultural identity 2 Language 19 dean s. worth and michael s. flier 3 Religion: Russian Orthodoxy 44 † dmitry s. likhachev and nicholas rzhevsky 4Asia65 mark bassin 5TheWest94 timothy westphalen 6 Ideological structures 113 abbott gleason 7 Popular culture 135 catriona kelly © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information vi Contents part ii literature and the arts 8 Literature 169 david m. bethea 9Art213 john e. bowlt 10 Music 250 harlow robinson 11 Theatre 279 laurence senelick 12 Film 316 nikita lary Further reading 347 Index 368 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information Illustrations 4.1 Vasily Ivanovich Surikov: Yermak’s Conquest of Siberia in 1582, 1895, oil on canvas. By permission of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. 71 7.1 Girls using kacheli, a Russian swing, and a seesaw, both popular amusements since medieval times. Russian lithograph, c. 1850. Kelly collection. 142 7.2 “The sirin-bird”: Old Believer watercolor in the style of an engraved lubok, probably early nineteenth century. From Iu. Ovsiannikov, The Lubok (Moscow, 1968). Taylor Institution, Oxford. 148 7.3 Refrigerator magnets, with inscriptions, c. 2009. Rzhevsky collection. 163 9.1 Mikhail Vrubel: Illustration to “Demon,” in Mikhail Lermontov, Sobranie Sochinenii (Moscow, 1891), pp. 14–15. 219 9.2 Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism (Supremus No. 58), 1916, oil on canvas, 79.5 × 70.5 cm. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. 227 9.3 Vladimir Tatlin: Line drawing of design for the model of Monument to the III International, c. 1920. First published in Nikolai Punin, Pamiatnik III Internatsionala (Petrograd, 1920), unpaginated. 228 9.4 Pavel Filonov: Formula of the Petrograd Proletariat, 1920–1, oil on canvas, 154 × 117 cm. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. 231 9.5 Anonymous designer: Crest of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics manufactured for a railroad car, c. 1950, painted metal, 13 × 10 cm. Ferris Collection, Institute of Modern Russian Culture, Los Angeles. 236 9.6 Vladimir Ovchinnikov: Basketball,1978,oiloncanvas, 60 × 75 cm. Rzhevsky collection. 242 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information viii List of illustrations 9.7 Francisco Infante: Artefact: Suprematist Games, 1968, cardboard, tempera, snow. Artist’s collection, Moscow. 246 11.1 Griboedov’s Woe from Wit at the Moscow Maly Theatre in the 1850s: L. V. Samarin as Chatsky, Mikhail Shchepkin as Famusov, and G. S. Olgin as Skalozub. Phototype by Panov. Laurence Senelick collection. 283 11.2 Korsh’s Theatre, Moscow, designed by the architect M. N. Chichagov. Laurence Senelick collection. 284 11.3 The last act of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavsky in the setting by Viktor Simov (1903). Laurence Senelick collection. 286 11.4 Michael Chekhov as Hamlet. Laurence Senelick collection. 294 11.5 A Blue Blouse troupe demonstrating “Fordism in the factory.” Laurence Senelick collection. 299 11.6 Act 2 of Armored Train 14–69 at the Moscow Art Theatre (1927). Laurence Senelick collection. 302 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00252-4 - The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky Frontmatter More information Contributors Mark Bassin: Research Professor of the History of Ideas, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodert¨ orn¨ University, Stockholm. Author of Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East; co-editor of Space, Place and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History; author of essays and articles on Russian perceptions of Asia, the history of geopolitics, and the history of environmentalism in the Slavic Review, American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Geschichte und Gesellschaft,andTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Visiting Professor at the universities of Chicago, Copenhagen, and Pau. Former fellow in the Institute for European History (Mainz), Kennan Institute, the Remarque Institute, and the American Academy in Berlin. David M. Bethea: Vilas Research Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Professor of Russian Studies at Oxford University. His numerous studies of Russian poetry, Russian literary culture, and Russian thought have been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American

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