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1. Racism in Russian Culture

   By Peter I. Barta

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book explores new forms of racist discourse which have emerged in Russia since the 1950s. It argues that Russia's interventions in Africa from the 1950s to the 1980s, which included the aim of civilizing Africans along Soviet lines, but where the interventions failed to establish Soviet...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Carnivalizing Difference

   Bakhtin and the Other

   Edited by Peter I. Barta, Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter, David Shepherd

   Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature

   It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe

   Edited by Peter I. Barta

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

   Edited by Peter I. Barta

   Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature

   Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to...

   Published July 25th 2001 by Routledge
5. Russian Literature and the Classics

   Edited by Peter I. Barta, David H. J. Larmour, Paul Allen Miller

   Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature

   Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the influence which...

   Published February 18th 1996 by Routledge