Russia's New Fin de Siècle

This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with scholars from Britain Sweden Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regard to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary culture? This question comes at a time when Russia is concerned with integrating itself into European arts and culture while enhancing its uniqueness through references to its Soviet past. Thus contributions investigate the phenomenon of post-Soviet culture and try to define the relationship of contemporary art to the past.