SISC VI, Stalinist Culture available

[Alyssa DeBlasio]

Dear Colleagues,

The sixth issue of the journal _Studies in Slavic Cultures_, entitled
“Stalinist Culture,” is now available.  The cost is $10 per copy.  All
orders and queries can be sent to Alyssa DeBlasio and Julie Draskoczy at
sisc at pitt.edu. More information can be found on-line at
<www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sisc>.

Articles in “Stalinist Culture” include:

Maxim Djomin (Herzen State University): “The Birth of Life out of the
Spirit of Soviet Science, or the Case of Ol'ga Lepeshinskaia”

Andy Hicks (Columbia University): “Semen Babaevskii and the Struggle to
Revivify the Rural Theme”

Dennis Ioffe (University of Amsterdam): “Alternative Language Theory Under
Stalin: Philosophy and Religion at the Crossroads in the Nascent Soviet
Union”

Oliver Johnson (University of Sheffield): “Kul'turnost' or Kitsch?
Varnishing Reality in the Art of Aleksandr Laktionov”

Matthew McGarry (University of Wisconsin): “‘Ode to the Great Leader’ or
‘Ode to the Poet’: Identifying the Hero in Osip Mandel'shtam’s ‘Poems
about Stalin’”

The theme of issue VII of _SISC_ will be “Performance.”

Best wishes,

Alyssa DeBlasio and Julie Draskoczy







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Alyssa DeBlasio
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone (412) 624-5906
FAX: (412) 624-9714
ajd31 at pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sisc/

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