Pavel Lyssakov - The City in Russian Culture

PAVEL LYSSAKOV AND STEPHEN M. NORRIS

Part I
The constructed city

MARK A. SODERSTROM

ALISON K. SMITH

ILYA GERASIMOV

VICKY DAVIS

ALAN BARENBERG

MILYAUSHA ZAKIROVA

Part II
The represented city

PAVEL LYSSAKOV

STEPHEN M. NORRIS

UILLEAM BLACKER

ALEXANDER IZOTOV

ANZHELIKA ARTYUKH AND ARLENE FORMAN

Pavel Lyssakov is Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at St. Petersburg State University. He is the author of numerous articles on Russian literature, culture, film, and television and editor of interdisciplinary volumes on Russian cultural studies Kulturalnye issledovaniia (Cultural Studies, 2006) and Cultural Cabaret (2012).

Stephen M. Norris is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (Ohio). He is the author of two books on Russian cultural history: A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 18121945 and Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism.

Anzhelika Artyukh is a Professor at St. Petersburg University of Film and Television and Associate Professor (Docent) at the Smolny Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University. A film scholar and critic, she is a regular contributor to the journal Iskusstvo kino (Art of Cinema) and a member of FIPRESSI.

Alan Barenberg is an Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta.

Uilleam Blacker is Lecturer in the Comparative Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe at the School for Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He is the co-author of Remembering Katyn and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe.

Vicky Davis is a historian and independent scholar. She is the author of Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia: Remembering World War Two in Brezhnevs Hero City.

Arlene Forman is the Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language, Literature and Culture, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. A scholar of Russian cinema, she is a regular contributor to Kinokultura, the online journal for New Russian Cinema.

Ilya Gerasimov is the Executive Editor of Ab Imperio Quarterly. A historian of Imperial Russia, he is the author of two books in English: Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self Organization, 19051930 and Plebian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 19061916.

Alexander Izotov is a researcher and PhD student at the University of Eastern Finland, Karelian Institute. His research focuses on regional studies, cross-border interactions, and the process of identity construction in the Finnish-Russian border area.

Alison K. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of two books on Russian history: Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars and For the Common Good and Their Own Well Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia.

Mark A. Soderstrom is an Associate Professor and Program Chair in the Department of History at Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois. A historian of the Russian Empire, he is the author of several articles on Siberia in Russian history and culture.

Milyausha Zakirova is an independent scholar. She is currently a writer in residence at New York Universitys Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Her research focuses on changing images of the Russian city that emerged from urbanization debates in the 20th century and local urban communities in Russia.