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Papers presented at the conference on 'Perspectives on Multiculturalism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia', held at Academy of Third World Studies during 17-18 March 2010

O. S. Ioffe: Soviet Law and Soviet Reality. Law in Eastern Europe, Vol. 30. Martinus Nijhoff Publ., Dordrecht / NL 1985. 240 Seiten, 45,50 Dollar

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Constructing Soviet and post-Soviet sexualities -- Introduction -- Constructing Soviet sexualities -- Constructing post-Soviet sexualities -- Notes -- References -- 2 'Why are we the people we are?' Early Soviet homosexuals from the first-person perspective: new sources on the history of homosexual identities in Russia -- Anonymous voices: the dominant discourses -- From decriminalisation to self-advocacy and back -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 3 Between the labour camp and the clinic: tema or the shared forms of late Soviet homosexual subjectivities -- Concepts and methods -- Stigmatisation and the production of shared subjectivities -- Soviet homosexual subjectivities centred on language, irony and solidarity -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 4 Soviet legal and criminological debates on the decriminalisation of homosexuality (1965-1975) -- The Soviet anti-sodomy law and Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation -- The Latvian case: attempts to criminalise lesbian sexual activity -- The legal argument for decriminalisation -- The MVD's objections to decriminalisation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 A Cold War for the twenty-first century: Homosexualism vs. Heterosexualism -- Introduction -- Homosexualism -- Heterosexualism -- Boomerang -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 'That's not the only reason we love him': Chaikovsky reception in post-Soviet Russia -- Soviet nostalgia and post-Soviet erasure -- Chaikovsky on the Russian Internet: site of resistance or echo chamber? -- The uses of queer biography -- Notes -- References

Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of political and cultural nationalism, as well as the myths, institutions and practices that moulded and expressed national identity. From post-Soviet recollections of food shortages to the attempts by officials to control popular religion, it analyses a variety of unexpected and compelling topics to offer fresh insights about this key area of world culture. Illustrated with numerous photographs, it presents the results of recent research in an accessible and lively way.

The dissertation explores to what extent and why citizens of the Russian Federation harbor feelings of nostalgia towards the Soviet Union and how popular perceptions regarding the differentiation of the past from the present can influence politics today. It is based on a mixed-methods design, consisting of survey analysis with a fieldwork-based comparative study of three federal subjects in the Russian Federation. It reveals that nostalgic sentiments are quite pervasive and are largely based on materialistic considerations and flourish independently of how the USSR is portrayed in the media and educational system today.

The Soviet World, first published in 1965, examines both the domestic society of the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and its foreign relations with the capitalist world. Khrushchev offered a challenge to the West, to compare the practical benefits to the people of communism and capitalism, and his foreign policies as much as his domestic policies aimed to prove the Soviet Union's economic superiority to the United States.

Soviet Success (1947) deals with Soviet Russia after the Second World War. The author met Stalin, Molotov and other leading personalities in Russia, and here records his conversations with them in full detail. The book looks at the destruction caused by the war, and the state of the economy and political life in its aftermath. It also is particularly informative on the family, art, literature and cultural life of Soviet Russia.