Issue VI (May 2007)
Stalinist Culture

Contents

• Editors' Introduction
  Alyssa DeBlasio and Julie Draskoczy, Editors
• Semen Babaevskii and the Struggle to Revivify the Rural Theme
  Andy Hicks (Columbia University)
• Alternative Language Theory Under Stalin: Philosophy and Religion at the Crossroads in the Nascent Soviet Union
  Dennis Ioffe (University of Amsterdam)
• Ode to the Great Leader or Ode to the Poet: Identifying the Hero in Osip Mandel'shtams Poems about Stalin
  Matthew McGarry (University of Wisconsin)
• Kul'turnost' or Kitsch? Vanishing Reality in the Art of Aleksandr Laktionov
  Oliver Johnson (University of Sheffield)
• The Birth of Life out of the Spirit of Soviet Science, or the Case of Ol'ga Lepeshinskaia
  Maxim Djomin (Herzen State University, St. Petersburg, Russia)