The year 2017 saw a multitude of conferences and exhibitions devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, both in Russia and in other parts of the world. The commemoration of this event would be incomplete without an exploration of its Northern dimension; in October 2017, the University of Tromso, The Arctic University of Norway hosted the conference The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond. Norway and Russia are both northern states, and the two countries have a common border in the High North. Some articles in this volume, based on the conference proceedings, investigate the impact of the Russian Revolution in Norway and Sweden, while others deal with the High North, e.g. the Revolution and Civil War in Northern Russia and the radicalization of the workers' movement of Northern Norway; some are also devoted to representations of the Russian Revolution at exhibitions and on the big screen.

Die literaturwissenschaftlichen Beitrage behandeln Werke zum Thema "Madness and Literature" in Russland, zur Poetik Pasternaks, zum Nomadischen bei Platonov und zur Anti-Utopien in der russischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Die linguistischen Artikel betreffen die slavische Sprachgeschichte (lexikalisch-semantischer Wandel sowie die Vita Constantini), Tempus und Aspekt im Russischen (Form-Funktionszusammenhang vom Morphem zum Text) sowie Fragen der sprachlichen Identitatskonstruktion (allgemein und im Slavischen).

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Cold War's most iconic writers. This book offers an in-depth analysis of his reception in the US, UK, and Germany before and after 1991. Elisa Kriza skilfully explores how Solzhenitsyn's work can be understood with the paradigm of witness literature and uncovers the dynamics behind the politicised reception of his writing. From the mid-1980s onwards, Solzhenitsyn's popularity dwindled -- was this for ideological reasons? What about the rumours linking him with Russian nationalism? This study does not shy away from stretching beyond anti-communism and touching more contentious subjects -- such as anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, and revisionism -- in Solzhenitsyn's work and reception. Bringing Solzhenitsyn back from his 'critical exile' and redefining his work as memory culture, Kriza's book is a crucial scholarly intervention, unveiling the mechanism that can transform a controversial figure into a moral icon.

This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution, The Euromaidans Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song: A Musical Dialogue Between the Antagonists?, Exposing the Fault Lines beneath the Kremlins Restorative Geopolitics: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the Russian National Anthem, Lasha Tumbai, or Russia, Goodbye? The Eurovision Song Contest as a Post-Soviet Geopolitical Battleground, and (Post-)Soviet Rock Soundtracks the Donbas Conflict.