Reconstructing the House of Culture

Reconstructing the House of CultureNotions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Engaged in the negotiation of all these is the House of Culture, which was the key institution for cultural activities and implementation of state cultural policies

Ibrahim abandons his own ideals and dreams of becoming a fiction writer

Mary Durfee

this edition of The Scarlet Pimpernel is both modern and readable

The author investigates how the contemporary structure of the island’s banana industry originated in colonial policies to create a politically “stable” peasantry

but Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right coalition also had to contend with a series of sensational revelations about the prime minister’s personal life as well as more troubling divisions within the coalition itself

Although her more conservative aunts are first wary of Alec’s influence

Explains the problems of economic growth and industrialisation from the perspectives of both the developed and developing countries

and anxieties of a late fifteenth century gentleman who witnessed -- and all too often participated in -- each of the key events that defined his era

Australian limes

and the concept of proof is presented

and Charles Taylor

A historical and critical analysis of the post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor