 | The Semiotics of Russian Culture (Michigan Slavic contributions) by Yuri M. Lotman
Buy used from: £27.95 Lotman is one of the fathers of structuralist semiotics: the application of his theories to Russian history are profoundly interesting
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| Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: Study in the Semiotics of Behavior by Irina Paperno
Buy used from: £72.96 Russian culture in the 1860s using the works of Chernyshevsky as a prism to examine patterns of behaviour among radicals
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 | Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia by Irina Paperno
Buy new: £19.98 / Used from: £4.31 A semiotic approach to suicide in late imperial Russia with some thought-provoking analysis of the positivist intellectual atmosphere
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 | Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University) by Richard S. Wortman
Buy new: £30.35 / Used from: £43.43 Reading ceremonies as text: a classic example of the New Cultural History
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 | The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia by Laura Engelstein
Buy new: £24.50 / Used from: £6.36 An examination of medical, legal and literary discourse on fin-de-siecle Russian sexuality with the aim of examining how such discourse helped to produce the idea of liberal modernity
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 | Self and Story in Russian History
Buy used from: £15.83 Great set of essays examining literature's role in crafting Russian identities
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 | Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein
Buy new: £19.90 / Used from: £12.03 The skoptsy (castrates) are a constant theme in golden age Russian literature: here is one of the first attempts in English to produce their history
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 | Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism: From the Golden Age to the Silver Age (California Slavic Studies)
Buy used from: £28.86 Essays looking at literary mythologies
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 | The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (Studies in Russia & East Europe) by Stephen Lovell
Buy new: £95.00 / Used from: £42.84 Another great example of the New Cultural History: a history of Russian reading
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 | Journeys to a Graveyard: Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees) by Derek Offord
Buy new: £71.25 / Used from: £73.23 Looking at how Russian national identity was formed through literary confrontation with Europe
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 | Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature (Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University) by Irina Reyfman
Buy used from: £104.95 A history of duelling in Russia combined with an examination of its semiotics
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 | The High Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life and Literature of Nineteenth-century Russia (Studies in Russian Literature & Theory) (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) by Ian Helfant
Buy new: £68.35 / Used from: £65.45 Gambling and Russian identity
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 | The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature: A Study in Cultural Mythology (Studies of the Harriman Institute) by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Buy new: £16.50 / Used from: £1.68 The Cossack 'Other' helps form ideas of national identity
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 | Inventing Eastern Europe: Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment by Larry Wolff
Buy used from: £19.94 Not specifically on Russia but still has a good deal of material about how the west has construed Russia (and the rest of East Europe) as the Other to justify expansionist ideology
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 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £10.55 Simply the best narratival account of the Russian Revolution. There are also some interesting thoughts about the public sphere and how this influenced the course of events.
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 | Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 by O Figes
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £7.55 Figes shows how language can also be a battleground in revolution as various groups struggle for the control of symbols
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 | When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)
Buy new: £20.50 / Used from: £22.60 Unique study looking at popular reading in late tsarist Russia
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 | Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-formation) by Alexei Yurchak
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £22.77 Stunning use of post-structuralist theory to conceptualise the paradoxical nature of the everyday life of the last Soviet generation
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| Civil Rights in Imperial Russia
Buy used from: £246.92 A new approach to tsarist civil society and the public sphere
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 | Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth Century Russia by Catherine Merridale
Buy used from: £12.91 An anthropological account of death and memory in Russia: makes fulsome use of oral sources.
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 | Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 by Geoffrey Hosking
Buy used from: £6.99 Some quite original thinking on Russian national identity: it forwards the thesis that maintaining an empire retarded the development of a Russian nation.
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