POETRY / Russian & Soviet

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

For the first time, this article studies the relationship between ritual and literature through the example of 20th-century Soviet Azerbaijani literature during the totalitarian period. The main objective was to analyze the functional semantics of ritual and the artistic codes of individual and national self-expression. Methodologically, historical-comparative and comparative-descriptive approaches were employed at …

Reference · Wikidata

Soviet and Russian opposition activity

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Mayakovsky Square in Moscow played an important role as a gathering place for unofficial poetry readings, and subsequently for expressing cultural and political dissent in the post-Stalin era.

Book · DOAB

This Special Issue revisits Joyce Michel’s influential 1959 essay on music's relationship to other arts, extending its transdisciplinary spirit into new historical and cultural contexts. It explores how music interacts with literature, visual art, theater, cinema, dance, and philosophy—not simply as aesthetic parallels but as deeply entangled modes of expression. The volume pays special attention to Eastern European…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Playbill of the concert (tvorcheskii vecher) actors Mark Braudo and Klementina Shermel’ at the Central House of Art Workers in Moscow on May 17, 1962. The program included Braudo’s reading contemporary Soviet Yiddish poetry (by Samuil Galkin, Lev Kvitko, Iosif Kerler, and others) and classic works of Yiddish literature (excerpt from Sholem Aleichem’s “Tevye”); and Shermel’s singing arias and songs in Russian and Yid…