Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image cultu

An extraordinary menagerie of fantastical and unreal beasts featuring hundreds of illustrations, from griffins to dog-men, mermaids, dragons, unicorns, and yeti

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

The Things of Life is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Soviet things, ex

In the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of book for the first generati