RUS2103 / HIS2351 RUSSIA SINCE GORBACHEV:SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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History & Social Sciences

Aslund, Anders. Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Block. (HC 244. A83 2002)

Brown, Archie, ed. Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. (JN6695.C66 2001)

Caldwell, Melissa. Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia. (HV 696 .S6 C35 2004)

Freeland, Chrystia. Sale of the century: Russia's wild ride from communism to capitalism. (HC 340.12 .F73 2000)

Goldenberg, Suzanne. Pride of Small Nations: The Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, c1994.(DK 509. G65 1994)

Grey, Francine du Plessix. Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope. New York : Doubleday, 1990.(HQ 1662. G66 1990)

Gustafson, Thane. Capitalism Russian-Style. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Hoffman, David. The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. New York: Public Affairs, 2003. (HC 340.12 .H64 2003)

Humphrey, Caroline. The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.(HC 340. 12. H86 2002)

Lane, David. Soviet Society under Perestroika.London; New York: Routledge, 1992. (DK 288 .L347 1992)

Lieven, Anatol. Chechnya: tombstone of Russian power.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. (DK 511 .C372 L54 1998)

Reddaway, Peter & Dmitri Glinski.The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism against Democracy. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. (DK510.763 .R43 2001)

Remnick, David. Resurrection: The Struggle for New Russia. (DK 510.763 .R46 1998)
 
Zassoursky, Ivan. Media and Power in Post-Soviet Russia.(P 95. 82. R8 Z3731 2004)

Literary History and Cultural Studies

Barker, Adele Marie, ed. Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex and Society since Gorbachev. Durham: Duke Up, 1999. (DK510.762.C66 1999)

Boym, Svetlana. Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 1994. (DK 266.4 .B69 1994)

---. The Future of Nostalgia.New York: Basic Books, 2001. (CB 427 .B67 2001)

Clarke, Katerina. The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual . Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1985. (PG 3098.4.C4 1981)

Epshtein, Mikhail. Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. (PG 3020.5 .P67 E67 1999)

Lahusen, Thomas and Gene Kuperman, eds. Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika.Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, c1993.(DK 266.4 .L38 1993)

Laird, Sally.Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers.Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999. (PG 3017 .L35 1999)
 
Shalin, Dmitri N. ed. Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Post-communist Consciousness.Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.(DK 510.32 .R868 1996)
 
Siniavskii, Andrei. The Russian Intelligentsia.New York: Columbia U P, 1997.(HN 530.2.A8 S56 1997)

Tolstaya, Tatyana. Pushkin's Children.Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. (PG 3489. 04. A16)

Literature

Brodsky, Joseph.Less Than One.(PN 1271. B76 1986)

Brodsky, Joseph. On Grief and Reason. (PG 3479. 4. R64 05 1995)

Pelevin, V. The Life of Insects.(PG 3485. E38 Z3613)

Tolstaya, Tatyana. On the Golden Porch.(PG 3489. 04. N213 1990)

Literature:Anthologies

Broude, Inna (comp.). The Times of Turmoil: A collection of stories. Hermitage Publishers, 1993. (PG3288.T56 1993)

Erofeev, Viktor and Andrew Reynolds,eds. The Penguin book of new Russian writing : Russia's Fleurs du mal.London; New York: Penguin Books, 1995. (PG 3266 .P454 1995)

Gessen, Masha, ed. and tr. Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Cleis Press, 1995. (PG3286.H35 1995)

Goscilo, Helena (ed.). Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women. Indiana UP, 1989. (PG3286.B25 1989)

Iossel, Mikhail and Jeff Parker, eds. Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia.Portland, Or.: Tin House Books, 2009. (PG 3286 .R34 2009)

Kagal, Ayesha, and Natasha Perova. Present Imperfect: Stories by Russian Women. Westview Press, 1996. (PG3286.P69 1996)

Richardson, Paul E., ed.Life Stories: Original Works by Russian Writers. Montpelier, VT: Stories for Good, 2009.

Performing arts and media

Beumers, Birgit. Pop Culture Russia!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO, 2005.

---, and Mark Lipovetsky.Performing violence: literary and theatrical experiments of new Russian drama / by Publisher Bristol, UK; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2009. (PN 2724 .B48 2009)

---, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova.The post-Soviet Russian media: conflicting signals. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009.  (HN 530.2 .Z9 M36 2009)

Freedman, John.Moscow Performances: The New Russian Theater 1991-1996.Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. (PN 2726 .M62 F73 1997)

---. Moscow Performances II: The 1996-1997 Season.Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.(PN 2726 .M62 F73 1998)

Ginkas, Kama and John Freedman.Provoking Theater: Kama Ginkas Directs. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. 2003.  (PN 2728 .G55 A3 2003)

Religion

Forest, Jim.Religion in the New Russia.New York: Crossroad, 1990.(BR 936. F57 1990)