James Von Geldern
Biographic Data
| ID | 711699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Von Geldern |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Geldern |
| SIGNATURE | VON GELDERN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Soviet Cultural Practices and the West
Western cultural influences swept the closed Ukrainian city of Dniepropetrovsk under Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko. Imports included rock music, western literature and films, consumer products such as jeans. Primary consumers were children of the elite, and later young working class students of technical institutes. These products entered Dniepropetrovsk from L'viv, and later from fraternal socialist countries and the west. They were brought i…
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Is the Caspian Sea a Sea; and Why Does it Matter
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and its natural resources became a source of contention for Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The underlying issue is paradoxical in light of its misleading simplicity – is the Caspian a sea or a lake? Throughout the article, we present proof that this question does matter and the answer should be given in the near future unless the world wishes to witness a cascade o…
Entertaining Tsarist Russia. Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads and Images from Russian Urban Life 1779-1917
This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiq…
Putting the Masses in Mass Culture: Bolshevik Festivals, 1918–1920
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays and Folklore, 1917-1953
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920
Life In-Between: Migration and Popular Culture in Late Imperial Russia
W hen Semen Kanatchikov, a young peasant migrant, started work in a Moscow pattern shop in the mid-1890s, his worker-comrades let him know just what they thought of peasants. Peasants wore high boots and bowl-cut hair; they were cheapskates, always looking for a free drink; they were tied to their homes and wives, bigbosomed women in red calico sarafans. Worse, they were inept pattern makers, as characterized in this joke that a worker told in mo…
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920
Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920
In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging and an economy in ruins, did the regime sponsor such spectacles? In this investigation of the manner in which these festivals helped to build a new po…
The Ode as a Performative Genre
All literature can be understood as text; it can be interpreted, but not all literature asks to be. Text describes a literary work as it moves within and between cultures; it implies interpretation and the readers' active participation. To use the termtextis to make assumptions that are not universal. While literature can bridge the many cultures that create and read it, it can also be confined to a specific frame within its own culture. It can r…
Is the Caspian Sea a Sea; and Why Does it Matter
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and its natural resources became a source of contention for Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The underlying issue is paradoxical in light of its misleading simplicity – is the Caspian a sea or a lake? Throughout the article, we present proof that this question does matter and the answer should be given in the near future unless the world wishes to witness a cascade o…
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays and Folklore, 1917-1953
Life In-Between: Migration and Popular Culture in Late Imperial Russia
W hen Semen Kanatchikov, a young peasant migrant, started work in a Moscow pattern shop in the mid-1890s, his worker-comrades let him know just what they thought of peasants. Peasants wore high boots and bowl-cut hair; they were cheapskates, always looking for a free drink; they were tied to their homes and wives, bigbosomed women in red calico sarafans. Worse, they were inept pattern makers, as characterized in this joke that a worker told in mo…
The Ode as a Performative Genre
All literature can be understood as text; it can be interpreted, but not all literature asks to be. Text describes a literary work as it moves within and between cultures; it implies interpretation and the readers' active participation. To use the termtextis to make assumptions that are not universal. While literature can bridge the many cultures that create and read it, it can also be confined to a specific frame within its own culture. It can r…
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917–1920
In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging and an economy in ruins, did the regime sponsor such spectacles? In this investigation of the manner in which these festivals helped to build a new po…
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920
Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953
Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920
Life In-Between: Migration and Popular Culture in Late Imperial Russia
W hen Semen Kanatchikov, a young peasant migrant, started work in a Moscow pattern shop in the mid-1890s, his worker-comrades let him know just what they thought of peasants. Peasants wore high boots and bowl-cut hair; they were cheapskates, always looking for a free drink; they were tied to their homes and wives, bigbosomed women in red calico sarafans. Worse, they were inept pattern makers, as characterized in this joke that a worker told in mo…
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays and Folklore, 1917-1953
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953
Putting the Masses in Mass Culture: Bolshevik Festivals, 1918–1920
Entertaining Tsarist Russia. Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads and Images from Russian Urban Life 1779-1917
This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiq…
Is the Caspian Sea a Sea; and Why Does it Matter
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and its natural resources became a source of contention for Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The underlying issue is paradoxical in light of its misleading simplicity – is the Caspian a sea or a lake? Throughout the article, we present proof that this question does matter and the answer should be given in the near future unless the world wishes to witness a cascade o…
Soviet Cultural Practices and the West
Western cultural influences swept the closed Ukrainian city of Dniepropetrovsk under Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko. Imports included rock music, western literature and films, consumer products such as jeans. Primary consumers were children of the elite, and later young working class students of technical institutes. These products entered Dniepropetrovsk from L'viv, and later from fraternal socialist countries and the west. They were brought i…
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Soviet and Russian History (11 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 works) · History (5 works) · Mass culture (5 works)