Alison Rowley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Rowley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowley |
| SIGNATURE | ROWLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Art Hiding in Plain Sight
In 1967, the Soviet government altered its expectations and procedures for mandatory military service by reducing the overall length of service and instituting biannual call-ups. This article looks at the demobilization albums created by several generations of conscripts as their time in the army or navy approached its end. These sources have received little attention to date, despite the wealth of information that they contain. The focus here wi…
From Revolutionary Pariah to Respected Pundit
This article considers a pivotal moment in the life of Zinovy Peshkov: his 1916-1917 speaking tour of the United States. Adopted by famed author Maksim Gorki, Peshkov spent much of his youth among Russian revolutionaries. Yet, he turned his back on their path when he joined the French Foreign Legion during the First World War. Combat wounds led to the loss of an arm but also to a transformation once Peshkov was sent to the United States by a Fren…
Ephemeral Art as Political Commentary
This article looks at the ways in which satirical postcards provided political commentary at a pivotal moment in the Franco-Russian alliance. Often overlooked as a medium of communication, turn-of-the-20th-century postcards reflected contemporary cultural values and were an important art form. Here, the focus is on postcards created by Orens and Mille, two of the best caricaturists of the day, as their work offered scathing critiques of Russia’s …
Before We Disappear into Oblivion
Emma Goes to the Arctic
This article tells the story of Emma Burnham Dresser's 1931 voyage on the Soviet icebreaker Malygin. Emma was not interested in Marxism or social experimentation. Nor was she fleeing discrimation or religious persecution. Instead, she wanted an exotic experience; hence, Emma's story introduces a new kind of traveler to the scholarly literature on the history of tourism to the Soviet Union: the wealthy socialite looking for her latest adventure. B…
Winning Women's Hearts and Minds
Reviewed by: Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR by Diana Cucuz Alison Rowley Cucuz, Diana – Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 317 p. Diana Cucuz's new book, Winning Women's Hearts and Minds, is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on Cold War culture. The study, which compares the contents of glossy mag…
An American in Magnitogorsk, 1930
This article tells the story of Clare F. Saltz, a married middle-aged man from the Detroit area, who spent roughly two years working in Magnitogorsk in the early 1930s. The included letters predate John Scott’s well-known account of the city, and hence offer different information for historians. Saltz’s experiences reveal much about everyday life – everything from working conditions, to securing provisions, to social activities – at a time when t…
Visiting Lenin
Drawing on the accounts of Western visitors to the USSR in the 1920s, this article analyzes their responses to the emerging cult of Lenin, particularly their impressions of his body and the mausoleums built to house it. A diverse spectrum of opinion is represented, since the texts include works by members of foreign communist parties, progressive activists who were sympathetic to the Soviet experiment, and hard-core opponents of the regime lookin…
From the Other Side at Documenta 11 (2002)
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British Women of the Eastern Front
Dark Tourism and the Death of Russian Emperor Alexander II, 1881–1891
Trump and Putin sittin’ in a tree’
Drawing on examples from material culture and slash fiction, this article explores the pornographication of the 2016 US presidential election. Specifically, the article considers how the imagined ‘bromance’ between candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed a same-sex relationship in the midst of the American political landscape, and brought increasingly hardcore pornographic references into the mainstream. The materials s…
Laurie S. Stoff, Russia’s sisters of mercy and the Great War
Laurie S. Stoff, Russia’s sisters of mercy and the Great War: More than binding men’s wounds." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(3), pp. 307–308
Ian Barnes, Restless empire
Ian Barnes, Restless empire: a historical atlas of Russia." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(1), pp. 107–108
Letters from Vladivostok, 1894–1930
Letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930, by Eleanor L. Pray, edited by Birgitta Ingemanson, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2013, xxxi + 276 pp., USS60.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-295-99324-9Vladivostok, the Russian city that served as the Eastern Terminal for the Trans-Siberian Railway, is a long way from Berwick, Maine where Eleanor Pray was bom. After Pray married, she and her husband, Ted, agreed to help his sister and her husband ran the Ameri…
Lee Farrow, Alexis in America
In November 1871, 21-year-old Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovich arrived in the United States, marking the first time a Romanov had ventured to that country. As Lee Farrow recounts in her lively nar
From Victoria to Vladivostok
"From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919, by Benjamin Isitt.." Canadian Journal of History, 47(2), pp. 488–489
Anna Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat
Anna Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (2010), xvi + 320 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £55.00/$85.00). In Soviet Women in Combat, Anna Krylova ad
Bandits and Partisans
Where are all the Mother-Heroines? Images of Maternity in Soviet Films of the 1930s
This article challenges accepted interpretations of Soviet women’s history, particularly the notion that the Soviet government engaged in a pro-natalist campaign in the 1930s. It undertakes an examination of the depiction of mothers in Soviet films, arguing that, given the close Party supervision of the film industry, these figures represent the official Soviet view of motherhood. The content of the films reveals that maternity was secondary in i…
Monarchy and the Mundane
In mid nineteenth‐century Europe, the emerging market for new paper products facilitated, for the first time, the widespread circulation of mass‐produced depictions of royalty. This article uses picture postcards to explore this process of commodification as well as some of the implications of it. In particular, the author focuses on the depiction of members of the Romanov dynasty and examines the unwitting desacralization that accompanied their …
Popular Culture and Visual Narratives of Revolution
This article uses postcards as a source – as a window into revolutionary culture during a particularly turbulent period in Russia's history. A specific examination of the picture postcards generated by revolutionary groups from 1905 to 1922 reveals the visual language of self‐representation that groups in the middle and on the left end of the political spectrum, each of whom will be discussed below, used to win followers and to grasp at political…
The Dictatorship of Sex
A Third Wave Writer and the Prose Tradition of the Soviet 1920s
(2007). A Third Wave Writer and the Prose Tradition of the Soviet 1920s: The Similarities between Zinovii Zinik’s “Cricket” and Iurii Olesha’s Envy. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 49, Special Section, pp. 307-321
Sport in the USSR
Sport in the service of the state
Using images drawn from a number of media, this article explores how and why the Soviet government encouraged women to take up sport prior to World War II. It is suggested that the regime had three goals in mind: to strengthen the military preparedness of the country, to improve the productivity of its workers, and to further the acceptance of new, more ideologically correct, forms of leisure. These goals offer a striking contrast with movements …
Trump and Putin sittin’ in a tree’
Drawing on examples from material culture and slash fiction, this article explores the pornographication of the 2016 US presidential election. Specifically, the article considers how the imagined ‘bromance’ between candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed a same-sex relationship in the midst of the American political landscape, and brought increasingly hardcore pornographic references into the mainstream. The materials s…
Popular Culture and Visual Narratives of Revolution
This article uses postcards as a source – as a window into revolutionary culture during a particularly turbulent period in Russia's history. A specific examination of the picture postcards generated by revolutionary groups from 1905 to 1922 reveals the visual language of self‐representation that groups in the middle and on the left end of the political spectrum, each of whom will be discussed below, used to win followers and to grasp at political…
Monarchy and the Mundane
In mid nineteenth‐century Europe, the emerging market for new paper products facilitated, for the first time, the widespread circulation of mass‐produced depictions of royalty. This article uses picture postcards to explore this process of commodification as well as some of the implications of it. In particular, the author focuses on the depiction of members of the Romanov dynasty and examines the unwitting desacralization that accompanied their …
An introduction to Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger's Traumatic Wit(h)ness-Thing and Matrixial Co/in-habit(u)ating
(1999). An introduction to Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger's Traumatic Wit(h)ness-Thing and Matrixial Co/in-habit(u)ating. Parallax: Vol. 5, Practices of Procrastination, pp. 83-88
Kandinskii’s Theory of Colour and Olesha’s Envy
This paper notes how each character in Olesha’s novel Envy is tied to certain colours and how these associations mirror the oppositions between colours laid out in Vasilii Kandinskii’s theory of colour. First the paper outlines the genesis of Kandinskii’s ideas on colour and describes his theory as spelled out in On the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane. This is followed by a discussion of how Olesha could have come into contact with K…
Eva Hesse . Tate Modern, London November 13 2002 - March 9 2003
(2003). Eva Hesse. Tate Modern, London November 13 2002 - March 9 2003. TEXTILE: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 288-295
Spreading the Bolshevik Message? Soviet Regional Periodicals for Women, 1917–1941
This paper examines Soviet regional periodicals for women from their beginning as special stranichki in newspapers to the end of the 1930s, when they became instruments for publicizing mass campaigns. In the 1920s—when these periodicals were subject to market mechanisms and had to be profitable in order to survive—they presented a vibrant blend of practical advice, fashion, and emancipatory promises. With the advent of the First Five-Year Plan, t…
Sport in the service of the state
Using images drawn from a number of media, this article explores how and why the Soviet government encouraged women to take up sport prior to World War II. It is suggested that the regime had three goals in mind: to strengthen the military preparedness of the country, to improve the productivity of its workers, and to further the acceptance of new, more ideologically correct, forms of leisure. These goals offer a striking contrast with movements …
A Third Wave Writer and the Prose Tradition of the Soviet 1920s
(2007). A Third Wave Writer and the Prose Tradition of the Soviet 1920s: The Similarities between Zinovii Zinik’s “Cricket” and Iurii Olesha’s Envy. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 49, Special Section, pp. 307-321
Sport in the USSR
Popular Culture and Visual Narratives of Revolution
This article uses postcards as a source – as a window into revolutionary culture during a particularly turbulent period in Russia's history. A specific examination of the picture postcards generated by revolutionary groups from 1905 to 1922 reveals the visual language of self‐representation that groups in the middle and on the left end of the political spectrum, each of whom will be discussed below, used to win followers and to grasp at political…
The Dictatorship of Sex
Where are all the Mother-Heroines? Images of Maternity in Soviet Films of the 1930s
This article challenges accepted interpretations of Soviet women’s history, particularly the notion that the Soviet government engaged in a pro-natalist campaign in the 1930s. It undertakes an examination of the depiction of mothers in Soviet films, arguing that, given the close Party supervision of the film industry, these figures represent the official Soviet view of motherhood. The content of the films reveals that maternity was secondary in i…
Monarchy and the Mundane
In mid nineteenth‐century Europe, the emerging market for new paper products facilitated, for the first time, the widespread circulation of mass‐produced depictions of royalty. This article uses picture postcards to explore this process of commodification as well as some of the implications of it. In particular, the author focuses on the depiction of members of the Romanov dynasty and examines the unwitting desacralization that accompanied their …
Anna Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat
Anna Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (2010), xvi + 320 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £55.00/$85.00). In Soviet Women in Combat, Anna Krylova ad
Bandits and Partisans
From Victoria to Vladivostok
"From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919, by Benjamin Isitt.." Canadian Journal of History, 47(2), pp. 488–489
Letters from Vladivostok, 1894–1930
Letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930, by Eleanor L. Pray, edited by Birgitta Ingemanson, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2013, xxxi + 276 pp., USS60.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-295-99324-9Vladivostok, the Russian city that served as the Eastern Terminal for the Trans-Siberian Railway, is a long way from Berwick, Maine where Eleanor Pray was bom. After Pray married, she and her husband, Ted, agreed to help his sister and her husband ran the Ameri…
Lee Farrow, Alexis in America
In November 1871, 21-year-old Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovich arrived in the United States, marking the first time a Romanov had ventured to that country. As Lee Farrow recounts in her lively nar
Laurie S. Stoff, Russia’s sisters of mercy and the Great War
Laurie S. Stoff, Russia’s sisters of mercy and the Great War: More than binding men’s wounds." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(3), pp. 307–308
Ian Barnes, Restless empire
Ian Barnes, Restless empire: a historical atlas of Russia." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(1), pp. 107–108
Dark Tourism and the Death of Russian Emperor Alexander II, 1881–1891
Trump and Putin sittin’ in a tree’
Drawing on examples from material culture and slash fiction, this article explores the pornographication of the 2016 US presidential election. Specifically, the article considers how the imagined ‘bromance’ between candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed a same-sex relationship in the midst of the American political landscape, and brought increasingly hardcore pornographic references into the mainstream. The materials s…
British Women of the Eastern Front
From the Other Side at Documenta 11 (2002)
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Visiting Lenin
Drawing on the accounts of Western visitors to the USSR in the 1920s, this article analyzes their responses to the emerging cult of Lenin, particularly their impressions of his body and the mausoleums built to house it. A diverse spectrum of opinion is represented, since the texts include works by members of foreign communist parties, progressive activists who were sympathetic to the Soviet experiment, and hard-core opponents of the regime lookin…
An American in Magnitogorsk, 1930
This article tells the story of Clare F. Saltz, a married middle-aged man from the Detroit area, who spent roughly two years working in Magnitogorsk in the early 1930s. The included letters predate John Scott’s well-known account of the city, and hence offer different information for historians. Saltz’s experiences reveal much about everyday life – everything from working conditions, to securing provisions, to social activities – at a time when t…
Emma Goes to the Arctic
This article tells the story of Emma Burnham Dresser's 1931 voyage on the Soviet icebreaker Malygin. Emma was not interested in Marxism or social experimentation. Nor was she fleeing discrimation or religious persecution. Instead, she wanted an exotic experience; hence, Emma's story introduces a new kind of traveler to the scholarly literature on the history of tourism to the Soviet Union: the wealthy socialite looking for her latest adventure. B…
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