For some children life is tough. Some survive, some do not. Carla, Dean and Lyle face adversities of abuse and neglect from the people we would expect to love and nurture them the most. All three ten
Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of
The "Golden Age" of opera-going in Russia, from the 1840s through the 1880s, coincided with the flourishing of Russian prose realism. During this period, opera and literature exerted a recip
Ranging widely across time and geography, Rites of Place is to date the most comprehensive and diverse example of memory studies in the Russian and East European fields. Leading scholars consider how
Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance s
Imitations of Life views Russian melodrama from the eighteenth century to today as an unexpectedly hospitable forum for considering social issues. The contributors follow the evolution of the genre th
