In the first post‐Soviet decade, Russian mental health professionals sounded the alarm about a looming psychiatric crisis affecting the nation’s youth. Some twenty years later, a spate of literary works seemingly marked the fictional apotheosis of these anxieties. Although critics have identified and reflected upon the significance of the “insanity cluster” in prose published around 2017, the youth of the protagonists has remained largely unconsidered. This essay focuses on three literary works that emerged at the intersection of two recent turns in contemporary Russian culture: the adolescent and the psychotherapeutic. These works featuring young, psychologically disturbed protagonists emphasize the corporeal aspects of mental illness. The characters strive to overcome the psyche or soul through empirically observable, bodily phenomena, such as violence against themselves and others, or sexual promiscuity. All three works unmask the harmful consequences of externalizing psychic abnormalities, of their teenage heroes’ belief that scarring one’s own body or that of another sentient being can ameliorate the symptoms of schizophrenia or other mental disturbances. With their complex and nuanced literary exploration of the interplay between “consciousness” and “flesh,” the three novels provide a fictional retort to narrowly mechanistic understandings of the psychology and behavior of youth.
{"title":"Literary Insanity and Psychiatric Literacy: Youth, Mental Health, and Contemporary Russian Fiction","authors":"Jenny Kaminer","doi":"10.1111/russ.12682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12682","url":null,"abstract":"In the first post‐Soviet decade, Russian mental health professionals sounded the alarm about a looming psychiatric crisis affecting the nation’s youth. Some twenty years later, a spate of literary works seemingly marked the fictional apotheosis of these anxieties. Although critics have identified and reflected upon the significance of the “insanity cluster” in prose published around 2017, the youth of the protagonists has remained largely unconsidered. This essay focuses on three literary works that emerged at the intersection of two recent turns in contemporary Russian culture: the adolescent and the psychotherapeutic. These works featuring young, psychologically disturbed protagonists emphasize the corporeal aspects of mental illness. The characters strive to overcome the psyche or soul through empirically observable, bodily phenomena, such as violence against themselves and others, or sexual promiscuity. All three works unmask the harmful consequences of externalizing psychic abnormalities, of their teenage heroes’ belief that scarring one’s own body or that of another sentient being can ameliorate the symptoms of schizophrenia or other mental disturbances. With their complex and nuanced literary exploration of the interplay between “consciousness” and “flesh,” the three novels provide a fictional retort to narrowly mechanistic understandings of the psychology and behavior of youth.","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":"83 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141798308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Judicial System of Russia by KathrynHendley and Peter H.Solomon, Jr. Judicial Systems of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐289535‐6","authors":"Julian G. Waller","doi":"10.1111/russ.12683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":"89 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141798075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen Celebrities by HelenaGoscilo, ed. Film and Media Studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. 374 pp. $129.00. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9499‐8","authors":"J. A. Cassiday","doi":"10.1111/russ.12684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":"26 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West by EbonyNilsson. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024. 272 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐37839‐1","authors":"Oleg Beyda","doi":"10.1111/russ.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":"52 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141805761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History of Law in Russia: From the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649 to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 by Ferdinand J. M.Feldbrugge. Law in Eastern Europe, vol. 70. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 424 pp. $183.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐52304‐3","authors":"Stefan B. Kirmse","doi":"10.1111/russ.12681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141822915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars by KeesBoterbloem. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. xviii + 313 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66692‐684‐2","authors":"Danielle Ross","doi":"10.1111/russ.12680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141827329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This review essay assesses six early Soviet avant‐garde texts that recently were republished by the European University Press in St. Petersburg. These volumes include incredibly exact, high‐resolution reprints of seminal avant‐garde texts with historical commentary and analytic essays, which offer new insight into the illustrated books’ contributions to the socialist project. This essay describes those contributions and their implications for our current understanding of the visual function of early Soviet poetry. It aims to open space for a discussion of the particular material visuality of avant‐garde books and other static visual objects within contemporary debates about the meaning of text and image in Soviet visual culture.
{"title":"Reframing Avant‐Garde Texts as Visual Objects","authors":"Angelina Lucento","doi":"10.1111/russ.12679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12679","url":null,"abstract":"This review essay assesses six early Soviet avant‐garde texts that recently were republished by the European University Press in St. Petersburg. These volumes include incredibly exact, high‐resolution reprints of seminal avant‐garde texts with historical commentary and analytic essays, which offer new insight into the illustrated books’ contributions to the socialist project. This essay describes those contributions and their implications for our current understanding of the visual function of early Soviet poetry. It aims to open space for a discussion of the particular material visuality of avant‐garde books and other static visual objects within contemporary debates about the meaning of text and image in Soviet visual culture.","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141826324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nijinksy’s Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances by NicoleSvobodny. Crosscurrents: Russia’s Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. 373 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐5353‐6","authors":"Natalie Rouland","doi":"10.1111/russ.12678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":"103 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141657243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 by OscarSanchez‐Sibony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 248 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐1089‐9355‐5","authors":"Fritz Bartel","doi":"10.1111/russ.12677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":" 531","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141669574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by AnneO’Donnell. Histories of Economic Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. $39.95. xviii + 370 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐6912‐0554‐0","authors":"Aaron B. Retish","doi":"10.1111/russ.12675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12675","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508484,"journal":{"name":"The Russian Review","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141668350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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