The study of Russian culture at the Center for Democratic Culture takes many forms including the Nevada Conference on Soviet Culture which was held at UNLV in 1992 and again in 1997. The 1992 event brought to Las Vegas scholars from several countries who presented the results of their studies on Russian society and culture and who continue to track the fate of reforms in emerging democracies. The participants examined the causes that impeded the formation of democracy in postcommunist societies, using pragmatist ideas as their guide. The results of this collaborative effort have been published in a book titled Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness. Additionally the International Festival of Russian Art and Culture was hosted by UNLV in 2000.

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Submissions from 2012

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Popular Culture: Russian Folklore and Mores, Zara Abdullaeva

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The Intelligentsia without Revolution: The Culture of the Silver Age, Andrei Ariev

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Soviet Everyday Culture: An Oxymoron?, Svetlana Boym

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The Russian Cinematic Culture, Oksana Bulgakova

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The Survival of Art and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, Marietta Chudakova

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Artistic culture: The Trial by Freedom, Daniil Dondurei

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Russian Art in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, Ekaterina Dyogot

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Russian Spirituality and the Theology of Negation, Mikhail Epstein

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Psychological Culture: Ambivalence and Resistance to Social Change, Alexander Etkind

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Literary Culture: "New Soviet Man" in the Mirror of Literature, Maurice Friedberg

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Colonizing Chaos: Russian Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century, Alexander Genis

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The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!, Natalia Ivanova

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Moral Culture: Public Morality and Private Responsibility, Igor Kon

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Civic Culture: Public Opinion and the Resurgence of Civic Culture, Yuri Levada

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The Aesthetic Code of Russian Postmodernism, Mark Lipovetsky

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Labor Culture: Labor Morality under Socialism, Vladimir Magun

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Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, Jerry Pankhurst

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Russian Architecture Between Anorexia and Bulimia, Vladimir Paperny

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Historical Culture: Russia in Search of Itself, Boris Paramonov

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Russian Literature in the Christian Context, Boris Paramonov

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Intellectual Culture: The End of Russian Intelligentsia, Dmitri N. Shalin

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Introduction: Continuity and Change in Russian Culture, Dmitri N. Shalin

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The Art of Dissent: Parody, Travesty and Irony in Late Soviet Culture, Dmitri N. Shalin

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Rethinking the Canon: Nonconformist Soviet Classics in Post-Soviet Perspective, Alexander Zholkovsky