num_pages: 404
description: This volume offers an introduction to Russian culture in all its rich diversity, including the historical conditions that helped shape it and the arts that express its highest achievements. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars explore language, religion, geography, ideological structures, folk ethos and popular culture, literature, music, theater, art, and film. A chronology and guides to further reading are also provided. Overall, the volume reveals, for students, scholars and all those interested in Russia, the dilemmas, strengths, and complexities of the Russian cultural experience.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
genres: Russia, Nonfiction, Russian History, History
ratings_count: 24
series: Cambridge Companions to Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press