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Early Soviet Science Fiction and the Unevenness of Modernism: An Aerial View
In envisioning alternative futures—utopian, dystopian, cataclysmic—we historicize the present.
In the Soviet School of Photography: Lessons in Photographic Literacy
By the mid-1930s, the literary works of the aging Russian naturalist author Mikhail Prishvin abounded in the Soviet press, from children’s books to literary journals.[1] But despite a long list of publications, the author has been relegated to a secondary position in the Soviet literary canon. It has only been with the recent publication of his vast and detailed diaries that Prishvin’s authorial persona has sparked growing scholarship and interest.[2] And it was not until December 2015 that viewers were able to see the first exhibition of his equally meticulous and remarkable photographs.