Russian & Former Soviet Union

A sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty years between 1913 and 1933. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian theatre produced an...

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory This book, a philosophical consideration of Soviet socialism, is not meant simply to revisit the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619494824Author Nicolas SmolniyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Maestro Publishing GroupPublisher Maestro Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women's and Gender Studies 2021 There was a discontent among Russian men in the nineteenth century that sometimes did not stem from poverty, loss, or the threat of war, but...

The Russian artist Kazimir Malevich was one of the great figures of twentieth-century art, and a pioneer of abstraction, whose painting The Black Square of 1915 has become an icon of modernism. Yet he is a creative figure about whom much still remains to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245645Author Snap EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1700g

In the turbulent global context following the fall of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution, Georgia declared its independence in 1918. Between then and the beginning of Soviet rule in 1921, an Avant-Garde creative scene burgeoned. Artists met,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646996735Author Gerry SouterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038300Author Klara Kemp-WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619495388Author Arthur BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Maestro Publishing GroupPublisher Maestro Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to these debates from a historicist perspective, taking as its point of departure one particular art programme, initiated...

Monika Kopplin highlights the extraordinary variety of decorative techniques as well as the many stylistic features. The history and art history of Russia are reflected in the small format of the lacquer miniatures, painting a lively picture of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646996674Author Nikodim Pavlovich KondakovFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639196296Author Valentina GorbatchevaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was excluded from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists. Abandoned to obscurity, Neizvestny laboured to realize a monumental and very public vision...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783743391Author Louise HardimanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 966g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783743384Author Louise HardimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574800005Author MukaghaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Metropolitan ClassicsPublisher Metropolitan ClassicsWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789963221400Author Terence McSweeneyFormat PaperbackImprint Aporetic PressPublisher Aporetic PressWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781713901594Author Gumdrop PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gumdrop PressPublisher Gumdrop PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914311253Author Valerien SvetlovFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Noverre PressPublisher Noverre PressWeight(grams) 216g

In 1986, the Soviet government created a statute enabling citizens to form associations and clubs for the first time since the 1920s. This-and the 1988 law on cooperatives which permitted private enterprise-gave rise to the first official organizations...

The contributors to this 1992 book examine various aspects of the relationship among Christianity and the visual arts, architecture and music in Russia. Within this broad area the book concentrates on specific topics rather than attempting a broad survey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999557204Author Louis MenasheFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Nap/ScarithPublisher Nap/ScarithWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999557211Author Louis MenasheFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint New Academia Publishing/VellumPublisher New Academia Publishing/VellumWeight(grams) 152g

This book is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia-the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or The Bronze Horseman, as it has come to be known since it appeared in...

The contributors to this 1992 book examine various aspects of the relationship among Christianity and the visual arts, architecture and music in Russia. Within this broad area the book concentrates on specific topics rather than attempting a broad survey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783988310002Author Marc BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Marc BoothPublisher Marc BoothWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639195695Author Liudmila MiliayevaFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639193011Author Mikhail GuermanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dell'arte-Harlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and others-have been vagabonding the roads of Russian cultural history for more than three centuries. This book explores how these masks, and the artistic...

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future-which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity-has lapsed from the...

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory This book, a philosophical consideration of Soviet socialism, is not meant simply to revisit the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646997923Author Sutherland LyallFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639193028Author Vsevolod PetrovFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich's art and biography. This latest research on the Russian modern artist...

The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations,...

The Russian budget process has received little detailed attention in academic literature. Here various key aspects of the formation of the federal budget, largely since Vladimir Putin began his third presidential term in 2012, are examined. It is...

Professor Lodder is a leading specialist in art of the Russian avant-garde which flourished during the 1910s and 1920s. She is the author of a major study of Russian Constructivism, acclaimed as the standard work on the subject, and with her husband has...

This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels of a central motif: the square. The square was the most emblematic and widely known form/motif of the international avant-garde in the...