"Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos Oksana Sarkisova, Olga Shevchenko. Anna Skarpelis , Jakub Stejskal , Anna Vallye ... Ana- stasia Leonova , and Vadim Lurie for taking photographs on our behalf , and / or for their permission to reproduce ..."
"In these original essays on long-term patterns of everyday life in prerevolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized daily existence for Russians through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Cha ..."
"In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis a ..."
Double Exposure(1st Edition) Memory and Photography (Memory and Narrative) by OlgaShevchenko Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2014 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-5270-8, ISBN: 1-4128-5270-6
"Over the past decade, historians and sociologists have increasingly used visual materials, in particular photographs, in their work. This volume brings together historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and media and visual scholars to articulate how photography, as a practice and as a visual medium, can provide insights into national memory, collective identities, and the historical imagination. This collection allows the reader to tr ..."