Obshchie mesta
Mifologii︠a︡ povsednevnoĭ z︠h︡izni
Illustrations and maps
illustrations
19 USD
Add to
Add to
The book by the outstanding American Slavonic scholar, professor of Harvard University Svetlana Boim represents a review of the mythical insights, common to the everyday life of Russia in the XXth century. The topics of its sections are specific notions of the Soviet culture ("way of life", "Babbitry", "Russian soul"), socio-psychological relationships in a communal flat and artistic strategies of modern Russian fiction and arts, "nourished" by the above mentioned phenomena.
