The Power of Time: social frames of memory, edited by Valentina Yarskaya and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova. Moscow: Variant, CSPGS, 2011. 

 

Table of contents

 

Foreword

 

Valentina Yarskaya 

Inversion of time as a mechanism of memory in context of culture 

 

Elena Trubina

Learning to remember: the vectors of memory studies 

 

Elena Petrenko, Ekaterina Kozhevina, Vadim Kaplun 

Russia. The end of XXth century. Imagery of our contemporaries   

 

Victoria Semenova

Traumatic memory as a resource of collective identity: the case of Afghanistan war veterans  

 

Elena Rozhdestvenskaya 

“Ordinary” Holocaust, or a Biography of a survivor

  

Interview with Aron Zus’man, a former prisoner of the concentration camp “The Loop”

 

Roman Abramov 

“It was an intelligentsia district…” 

Nostalgic representations of the past in the memories of residents of the West Field district of Penza 

 

Olga Lysikova 

Trip to the USSR: nostalgia for the soviet in cultural practices of tourism 

 

Rostislav Kononenko, Evgeniya Karpova 

“Connection with the roots”: social capital of the folklore movement 

 

Maria Abramova, Olga Melnikova 

The role of “traditional Russian” culture for contemporary women’s groups 

 

Inara Zakharyan 

“Resigned themselves to a new life”: Retrospective identity in life

stories of two generations of Armenian migrants in Saratov region 

 

Olga Filippova 

School primers: politics of identity in Soviet and independent Ukraine   

 

 

Galina Karpova. Social field of cultural policy

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Introduction

PART 1. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL POLICY

1.1. Social field of cultural policy: social consensus or struggle for power

1.2. Methodology of a comparative analysis of national cultural policy models

PART 2. RUSSIAN CULTURAL POLICY UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

2.1. Evolution of cultural policy in Russia

2.2. The main trends of the cultural policy in modern Russia

PART 3. CULTURAL POLICY AND SOCIETAL WELL-BEING

3.1. Issues of the Russian multiculturalism and cultural diversity

3.2. Social exclusion in a “common cultural space”: availability of services

PART 4. SYMBOLIC ASPECTS OF CULTURAL POLICY

4.1. Cultural policy and festive culture: the ideology of power

4.2. Values of inclusion in an information field of culture

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix

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Visual Anthropology:

Regimes of Visibility under Socialism

edited by Pavel Romanov and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova

Moscow: Variant, CSPGS, 2009

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Pavel Romanov, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova

«The Eye-Centred Soviet Person»: Rules of Vision / Suspicion

PART 1. LOOK INTO MY EYES:

PUBLIC / PERSONAL AS POLITICAL

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov

The Black Box: Notes on the Anthropology of the Enemy

Galina Orlova

“Maps for the Blind”:

policy and politicizing the vision in Stalin era

Sveltana Bykova

Soviet Iconography and “Portrait Cases”

in a Context of Visual Politics 1930s

Galina Yankovskaya

“Brigade Method” and Other Know-Hows

of the Art-Politics of Stalinist Era

Elisabeth Hemby

Domestic Space and Everyday Life in the Art of Tatiana Nazarenko

Sergei Zhuravlev

Demonstration Hall of the GUM in the Middle 1950s – 1970s:

Peculiarities of Visual Representation of Soviet Fashion

on a Micro-Level

PART 2. VISIBLE SOCIALISM:

SYMBOLIC CODES OF SOVIET POWER

Victoria E. Bonnell

Iconography of The Worker In Soviet Political Art

Frances L. Bernstein

Envisioning Health in Revolutionary Russia: The Politics

of Gender in Sexual-Enlightenment Posters of the 1920s

Victoria E. Bonnell

Representation of Women In Early Soviet Posters

Mariya Minina

Image of an Orphan in Soviet Poster 1920–1930s

Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Pavel Romanov

Heroes and Spongers: Iconography of Disability

in Soviet Visual Discourse

PART 3. LOOKING NARROWLY INTO THE CITY:

UNIVERSES OF LIFE STYLES

Ekaterina Salnikova

Evolution of visual pattern in Soviet cinema,

from 1930s to 1980s

Ioulia Gradskova

“Anywhere are children so much loved as in our country”:

Pre-school institutions in Soviet documentary films, 1946–1960s

Tatiana Dashkova

“Velikaya lomka”: Grigoriy Alexandrov’s “Russian Souvenir”:

on the Edge of Two Eras

Almira Ousmanova

“The Girls”: the maiden pride

and the age of love in Soviet comedy of the 1960s

Lars Karl

“Screen Liberation”: Soviet Fiction Film during Perestroika

Ivan Suslov

“Why Should One Kill the Dragon?” Ideology of Perestroika in

Anti-Totalitarian Film of Mark Zakharov

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Visual Anthropology:

Urban Memory Cards / Mental Maps

edited by Pavel Romanov and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova

Moscow: Variant, CSPGS, 2009

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Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Pavel Romanov

«An Intriguing City…» Kaleidoscopic Life Space

Part 1. City Paths: the guide of vision

Elena Trubina

Visible and Invisible in Everyday Life of the Cities

Oksana Zaporozhets, Jekaterina Lavrinec

Choreography of Anxiety in Transitive Places: Representational approach revised

Viktoria Semenova

Mapping of City Space: the Main Approaches to Visual Analysis

Natalia Sorokina

Subjective Paths: Cognitive Maps of Transport Routes of Modern City Dwellers

Part 2. City Images: Travels in Time and Space

Boris Stepanov

«The Arc of the Past»: City As an Object of the Historic Excursion

Svetlana Malysheva, Alla Salnikova

Russian Provincial Town of the 1920-s: Visualization of the «Sovietness»

Roman Abramov

Poetics of Everyday Life of the Seventies in Film «Tram is Moving Through the City»: a Nostalgic Essay

Anastasia Kincharova

«Welcome to the City of Deceit»: an Attempt to Analyze Representation of St. Petersburg in A. Uchitel’s Film «The Stroll»

Tatiana Kuzmina

«The Cabins of Memories» of the Lev Kassil’s Museum: Visual Anthropological Excursion

Part 3. Looking Narrowly into the City: Universes of Life Styles

Jonathan Vickery

Culture-Led Regeneration – Synthesizing Social,

Cultural and Urban Policy

Pavel Romanov

Book Stores in City Space

Andrei Vozianov

Vinyl in the City: Between the Sound and the Spectacle

Olga Gurova

Fashion and Visualization of Social Structure in Сontemporary Russian City

Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Galina Karpova, Maria Vorona

«Are you a Kidult or an Ordinary Human Being?» The Virtual Production of Style

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Visual Anthropology: Tuning the Lens

edited by Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov

Moscow: Variant, CSPGS, 2009

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Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Pavel Romanov

Views and Images: Methodology, Analysis, Practice

PART 1. VISUAL METHODOLOGY:

FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION

Hubert Knoblauch

Videography. Focused Ethnography and Video Analysis

Luc Pauwels

Representing moving cultures: Issues and Opportunities

of Anthropological and Sociological Filmmaking

Judy Weiser

PhotoTherapy Techniques: Using Interactions with Photographs

to Improve People’s Lives

Viktor Krutkin

Snapshops from the Family Photo Albums and Photo Discourse

Lilia Voronkova

“Sociological exhibitions”: Visual Presentations in Social Sciences

Luc Pauwels

The Ethics of Picturing People and Using People’s Pictures:

a Visual Researcher’s Dilemma

PART 2. ETHNOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

VISUAL MARKERS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Olga Sergeevа

How We Became TV-Watchers: Reconstructions of Everyday Life

on the Photographs of the 1950-1970s

Olga Boitsova

Photography in rites de passage

Elena Lobova

“Mobile” Photography As a Means of Communication

Anna Pechurina

“There is Russian spirit…”: Home Possessions As a Way

of Visualization of Russian Immigrants’ Identity in UK

PART 3. VISUAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY

Noa Hazan

Small Country – Big Playground:

Visual Formulation of Jewish Races in Israeli Photographs

Olga Gourova

“Gloss”: Fashion Ideology in Contemporary Russian Culture

Alexandra Tikhonova

A “Glamour Scum” and a “Harsh Gay”, or Post-Soviet Representations

of Masculinity in TV Pop Culture: “Nasha Russia” on TNT

Maria Veits

Strategies of Reconstruction of Soviet Everyday Life

and Body Practices in Contemporary Russian Cinema

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