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Standing at the intersection of Visual Studies and Queer Studies, the volume Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance exposes and explores the queer imagery and sensibilities in works of visual art in pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and beneath the surface of conventional histories of Russian art.

Queerness. --- Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet art. --- art criticism. --- art history. --- art. --- history of Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet art. --- queer art. --- queer theory. --- queer. --- visual studies.

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Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these observations urge us to think of economies and political authority as mutually constitutive, in Russia and beyond. Whereas political science often thinks of market arrangements resulting from political institutions, Russia's marketization demonstrates that political status is also produced by the market arrangements that actors create. Taking this reflexivity seriously suggests a view of economies and markets as constructed and contingent entities.

History --- market --- politics --- electricity system --- economy --- history --- ministry --- marketization --- post-Soviet developmentalism --- Russia

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Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin's oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium.

Pelevin, Viktor --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History. --- Literature. --- Metamorphosis. --- Mind Control. --- Pelevin. --- Politics. --- Post-Soviet. --- Postmodernism. --- Russia. --- Simulation. --- Space-Time. --- Utopia.

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This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with broad variety of materials—from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories to internet folklore, it comprises such topics as history and identity, traditional worldview influencing modern people’s actions, construction of the mental landscape, types and modes of storytelling, the modern uses of proverbs, anecdotes, and internet lore. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, and employing modern research methodologies to dissect and analyze popular subjects and themes, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality.

Folklore --- Baltic culture. --- Lithuanian folklore. --- humor. --- ideology. --- internet lore. --- life story. --- lived experience. --- mental landscape. --- narrative. --- national identity. --- oral history. --- post-Soviet culture. --- proverb. --- storytelling. --- tradition. --- vernacular.

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Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city's longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Urban renewal --- Group identity --- Sociology, Urban --- Astana (Kazakhstan) --- Social conditions. --- Civilization. --- Kazakhstan, Astana, Urban Studies, Capital Cities, Post-Soviet, Modernization, Urbanism.