Helena Goscilo

Russia--women--culture

Introduction by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren Part I: Spiritual Facilitations 1. The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths Are WomenOs BathsNNancy Condee 2. The Ritual Fabrics of Russian Village WomenNMary B. Kelly Part II: Body Works 3. Keeping A-breast of the Waist-land: WomenOs Fashion in Early-Nineteenth-Century RussiaNHelena Goscilo 4. Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of IdeologyNOlOga Vainshtein 5. Getting under Their Skin: The Beauty Salon in Russian WomenO LivesNNadezhda Azhgikhina and Helena Goscilo Part III: Domestications 6. Flirting with Words: Domestic Albums, 1770ETH1840NGitta Hammarberg 7. Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder?NDarra Goldstein 8. Dirty Women: Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Soviet RussiaNNadya Peterson Part IV: Performing Arts 9. Women on the Verge of a New Language: Russian Salon Hostesses in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyNLina Bernstein 10. Stepping Out/Going Under: Women in RussiaOs Twentieth-Century SalonsNBeth Holmgren 11. Pleasure, Danger, and the Dance: Nineteenth-Century Russian VariationsNStephanie Sandler 12. OThe IncomparableO Anastasiia VialOtseva and the Culture of PersonalityNLouise McReynolds Part V: Class Acts 13. Gendering the Icon: Marketing Women Writers in Fin de Si cle RussiaNBeth Holmgren 14. Handicrafts and Creative Freedom: Russian WomenOs ArtNAlison Hilton Contributors Index

Politicizing magic : an anthology of Russian and Soviet fairy tales

Part I: Folkloric Fairy Tales Introduction: Helena Goscilo The Frog Princess The Three Kingdoms Baba Yaga Vasilisa the Beautiful Maria Morevaa Tale of Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf The Feather of Finist the Bright Falcon The Magic Mirror The Magic Ring Danila the Luckless Ilya Muromets and the Dragon The Maiden Tsar Part II: Fairy Tales of Socialist Realism Introduction: Marina Balina Tele of the Military Secret, Malchish Kibalchish and His Solemn Word The Golden Key or The Adventures of Buratino (excerpts) The Flower of Seven Colors The Old Genle Hottabych (excerpts) The Malachite Caskat Part III: Fairy Tales of Socialist Realism: Critique of Soviet Culture Introduction: Mark Lipovetsky Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups The Dragon (excerpts) Tales of the Troika (excerpts) Before the Cock Crows (excerpts) That Same Munchausen (act I)

Russian celebrities home and abroad: united under Putin, March 2011

This report aims to map out the Russian celebrity-scape and explore the changing nature of celebrification in a post-totalitarian state. The report develops some of the ideas presented in Celebrity and glamour in contemporary Russia: shocking chic (Goscilo and Strukov, 2011), and reflects on the role of Russian celebrities abroad. Each individual celebrity discussed here showcases a specific type of celebrity in contemporary Russia, and each exemplifies the different modes used by celebrities to maintain their notoriety. Beginning with a consideration of the celebrity status of Russian politicians, the report then examines the system of stardom as represented by sports personalities, artists and performers. In all cases, we are concerned with the transnational nature of contemporary celebrities and demonstrate how national and international realms of celebrification merge. Perhaps nothing illustrates the evanescent nature of celebrity in Russia and elsewhere more eloquently than the ousting on 28 September 2010 of Yuri Luzhkov. Moscow’s mayor for 18 years by appointment and popular acclaim, Luzhkov ruled Russia’s capital as his royal demesne, transforming it into a megapolis reflecting not only Russia’s fantasised identity as a glamorous, international showcase, but also Luzhkov’s personal ambitions as the magician–overseer of a city symbolising a resurrected empire of plenitude and political clout. The aftermath of President Dmitry Medvedev’s summary dismissal of Luzhkov recalls Stalin’s posthumous fate: an almost instant demotion from stardom to irrelevance. Quite simply, frequent media coverage of Luzhkov the celebrity dwindled to just a few reports on the accusations of massive fraud levelled against his wife and his regime (Washington, 2011). Luzhkov’s anodyne replacement since 21 October 2010, Sergei Sobyanin recently accepted Vladimir Putin’s offer to head the Moscow branch of the ruling United Russia party, but he presents no threat to the Kremlin. A former member of Putin’s retinue, he professes to harbour no career ambitions and calls himself a ‘manager’ (Roth, 2011) – the former self-identity of Russia’s enduring premier celebrity, Putin, whose supremacy Sobyanin presumably would never challenge. In the meantime, Putin continues to expand his public relations repertoire. A recent ‘act’ of his brought down the house at an international charity event when he fingered piano keys and launched into a heavily accented version of the popular old hit, ‘Blueberry Hill’,