Vitaly Mansky’s Gorbachev. Heaven (2020)

Vol. 114 (April 2021) by Konstanty Kuzma
Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy during a resurfacing Cold War.

Vitaly Suslin’s Papier-mache (2020)

Vol. 114 (April 2021) by Daniil Lebedev
Can media fantasies fix reality?

Soviet Bloc(k) Housing and the Self-Deprecating ‘Social Condenser’ in Eldar Ryazanov’s Irony of Fate

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Lara Olszowska
Lara Olszowska reflects on the demise of an urban symbol.

Western Cities in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Pavel Stepanov
The story and function of the (urban) West in Soviet cinema.

Urban Planning as a Shifting Symbol in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Anna Guboglo
How concrete buildings have been deployed as symbols in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.

Representation and Meaning of the Dacha in Contemporary Russian films

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Maxim Plokhikh
This essay looks at two films that exemplify how the dacha is perceived in post-Soviet Russia.

Daria Slyusarenko’s Joy (Dzhoy, 2020)

Vol. 111 (January 2021) by Zoe Aiano
This recent documentary portrays life behind the scenes of a traveling circus.

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s Jolly Fellows (Vesëlye rebiata, 1934) and the Structural Principles of Film Musicals

Vol. 110 (December 2020) by Ira Österberg
Ira Österberg contrasts this early Soviet musical with Hollywood peculiarities of the genre.

Tarkovsky’s Musical Aesthetic in the Context of the Sonic Arts

Vol. 110 (December 2020) by Florian Hollerweger
Florian Hollerweger places Tarkovsky's scores within the 20th century tradition of musicalizing everyday sounds.

A Search for Cultural Identity in Contemporary Musical Films from Russia

Vol. 110 (December 2020) by Alexey Izmalkov
Alexey Izmalkov identifies various compromises in Russian cinema's musical quest for identity.
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