THE NEW SOCIAL POETRY

Petr Razumov. The ‘North Market’ stop

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE CREATIVE PROFESSIONS: SOVIET IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICE

Maria Maiofis, Ilya Kukulin. From the Editors

Vadim Bass. The Discourse of Form as the Last Refuge of the Soviet Architect

Marina Raku. The Social Construction of ‘Soviet Musicology’: Birth of a Method

Galina Belyaeva. ‘Soviet Artist’: The Construction of Professional Identity in Public Policy and Its Regional Variations (1918—1932)

THAW-ERA SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Maria Maiofis, Ilya Kukulin. From the Editors

Oleg Leibovich. New Party Patterns: The Construction of Urban Practices in the Post-Stalin Decade

Tatyana Dashkova — ‘We don’t need stripteases, but you shouldn’t cover up too much either!’: the Transformation of the Institution of Fashion in 1950s-60s Soviet Cinema

Irina Kaspe — ‘We are living in an era that gives meaning to life’: the Construction of the ‘Sixties’ Generation in the Journal Iunnost’

SIEGE NARRATIVES I

Polina Barskova. From the Editor

Natalia Arlauskaitė. ‘Comrades, let’s move along faster!’: Visual Regimes for the Siege Everyday

Ilja Kukuj. ‘It was what really happened that I couldn’t bear seeing’: The Narrative of Remembering in Pavel Zal’tsman’s Siege Text

Katharine Hodgson. Breaking through the Barriers of Time in a Space under Siege: Olga Bergholz (trans. Yu. Kostyuk)

Riccardo Nicolosi. The Apophatic and Formalism. The Siege Narrative in Lydia Ginzburg’s Blockade Diary

S I E G E   N A R R AT I V E S   II

Tatiana Voronina. Old-Fashioned Ways of Talking about Old Things: The Siege of Leningrad in Perestroika-Era Literature

Polina Barskova. Fiction and Truth: What We Learn about the Siege from Boris I. Ivanov’s Allegory Vedyornikov the Deserter

Evgenia Vezhlian (Vorob’eva). Breaking through Obstruction: the Siege of Leningrad as Symbol and Experience

NEW   LITERARY   INSTITUTIONS: THE   ARKADY   DRAGOMOSHCHENKO   PRIZE

Alexander Skidan. From the Editor

Michael Palmer. Letter to St. Petersburg (trans. A. Skidan)

Anna Glazova. Award Ceremony Speech

Alexandra Tsibulya. Award Ceremony Speech

Alexandra Tsibulya. An Excess of Things

Stanislav Snytko. From The White Hand

Nikita Sungatov. Trauma Says to Trauma

CHRONICLE   OF   CONTEMPORARY   LITERATURE

Pjotr Kazarnovskij. ‘The sum of speech’ (Review of: E. Strelkov. Molecules. Nizhny Novgorod, 2015)

Pavel Bannikov. Intravenous Fatherland (Review of: S. Sokolovsky. Good defeats evil: A tale. M./SPb., 2015)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Evgeny Savitsky. How Should Historians Use Theory? (Review of: Raab N. The Crisis from Within: Historians, Theory, and the Humanities. Leiden, Boston, 2015)

Vlad. Tretyakov. Video Games as a New Type of Narrative (A Survey of English-Language Books on Video Games)

O. Malinova-Tziafeta. A Cultural History of Soviet Radio (Review of: Lovell S. Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919–1970. Oxford, 2015)

Anna Shvets. Poetry amid Media: Fighting for Subjectivity (Review of: Stephens P. The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing. Minneapolis; L., 2015)

Dechka Chavdarova. Metaphors and Plots of Authority in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century Russian Literature, through the Eyes of a Bulgarian Literary Scholar (Review of: Denka Krysteva. Political metaphor sand plots in eighteenth-nineteenth century Russian literature. Shumen, 2013; Denka Krysteva. The Prince, The Successor and the Writer-Mentor in the Age of Nikolai I. Shumen, 2015)