The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space

Contributors

Contributors Oksana Bulgakowa is a visiting professor in the Slavic Department at Stanford University. Among her numerous books and articles are Die ungewöhnlichen Abenteuer des Dr. Mabuse im Lande der Bolschewiki (Berlin , 1995); FEKS: Fabrik des exzentrischen Schauspielers (Berlin, 1996); Sergej Eisenstein: Drei Utopien. Architekturentwürfe zur Filmtheorie (Berlin, 1996); and Sergei Eisenstein: A Biography (Berlin and San Francisco, 2001). Katerina Clark is a professor of comparative literature and Slavic literature at Yale University. She is the author of The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual (Chicago, 1981); Mikhail Bakhtin (with Michael Holquist, Cambridge, Mass., 1984); and Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1995). Randi Cox is an assistant professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where she teaches courses in Russian history and the history of consumerism. She is currently working on a monograph on Soviet advertising agencies of the 1920s. Evgeny Dobrenko is a professor of Russian and Slavonic studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author and editor of numerous books including The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (Stanford, 1997) and The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture (Stanford, 2001). Mikhail Epstein is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University. He is the author of fifteen books and more than four hundred articles and the recipient of numerous national and international prizes. His most recent books in English are After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture (Amherst, 1995); Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Providence, 1999); Transcultural Experiments: 307 Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with Ellen Berry, New York, 1999); and Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism (Philadelphia, 2002). Boris Groys is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the Center of Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. His books include The Total Art of Stalinism: Russian Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond (Princeton, 1992); Ueber das Neue [On the new] (Munich, 1999); and Unter Verdacht: Eine Phenomenologie der Medien [Under suspicion : A phenomenology of media] (Munich, 2000). Hans Günther is a professor of Slavic literatures at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is the author of Die Verstaatlichung der Literatur: Entstehung und Funktionsweise des sozialistisch-realistischen Kanons in der sowjetischen Literatur der 30er Jahre (Stuttgart, 1984) and Der sozialistische Übermensch: Maksim Gor’kij und der sowjetische Heldenmythos (Stuttgart, 1993), as well as the editor of The Culture of the Stalin Period (London, 1990). John McCannon is an assistant professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932–1939 (Oxford, 1998). He has written articles about Soviet military affairs and the uses of children’s literature by the Stalinist regime, and he is currently working on a biography of the Russian artist-explorer-mystic Nicholas Roerich. Eric Naiman teaches Russian and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, 1997). Jan Plamper is an assistant professor of Russian history at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His recent publications include the articles “Foucault’s Gulag” and “Abolishing Ambiguity: Soviet Censorship Practices in the 1930s.” He is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled The Stalin Cult: Studies of Symbolic Power in the Soviet Union. Mikhail Ryklin is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is the author and editor of numerous books including (in Russian) Terrorologics (Moscow, 1992); Art as an Obstacle (Moscow, 1997); and Spaces of Exultation: Totalitarianism and Difference (Moscow, 2002). 308 Contributors Richard Taylor is a professor of politics at University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet cinema. His latest book is October (London, 2002). Emma Widdis is a lecturer in the Slavonic Department, Cambridge University, and a fellow of Trinity College. She has published articles on the cinema, literature, and architecture of the Soviet period in several journals and edited volumes. She is the author of Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War (New Haven, 2003). Contributors 309 ...