
The Russian Archipelago at War Against Ukraine
Culture and Contexts 2022-2025
Tomas Glanc(Author)
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 4. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-80-246-6273-2 (ISBN)
Description
The first sustained cultural analysis of Russia at war that reveals how art, artists, and institutions become actors in conflict.
This book was conceived in wartime, and war stands at its center. It proceeds through an analysis of cultural phenomena and processes that, in one way or another, originated in Russia and bear on the present situation-regardless of where their actors may now reside.
Through a series of case studies, The Russian Archipelago at War Against Ukraine traces how war has entered the realm of art-literature, the visual arts, theater, film, and beyond-and examines the ways in which culture itself becomes a participant in war. What emerges are narratives of resistance and protest, of persecution and prohibition, and emergent forms of underground, but also postures of indifference, resignation, and compliance, including overt loyalty to and support for the ideology and practice of war, its perpetrators, and its objectives.
Underlying this content is a more unsettling question: what aesthetic, cultural-political, moral, and intellectual challenges, consequences, and perhaps even fragile hopes does the horror of war contain?
This book was conceived in wartime, and war stands at its center. It proceeds through an analysis of cultural phenomena and processes that, in one way or another, originated in Russia and bear on the present situation-regardless of where their actors may now reside.
Through a series of case studies, The Russian Archipelago at War Against Ukraine traces how war has entered the realm of art-literature, the visual arts, theater, film, and beyond-and examines the ways in which culture itself becomes a participant in war. What emerges are narratives of resistance and protest, of persecution and prohibition, and emergent forms of underground, but also postures of indifference, resignation, and compliance, including overt loyalty to and support for the ideology and practice of war, its perpetrators, and its objectives.
Underlying this content is a more unsettling question: what aesthetic, cultural-political, moral, and intellectual challenges, consequences, and perhaps even fragile hopes does the horror of war contain?
Reviews / Votes
"Semiotician Tomas Glanc is able to compellingly and rigorously analyze the key concepts mobilized by Russian propaganda." * iliteratura.cz *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ovocny
Czech Republic
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-246-6273-2 (9788024662732)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Tomas Glanc is a Slavist and researcher at the University of Zurich. David Short is an acclaimed translator of numerous books from Czech and Slovak to English. Stuart John Hoskins is a translator.
Content
Introduction: Intent
1. Languages and War
2. The Logic of Repression
3. Participation and Resistance
4. Ignorance
5. Z-Culture
6. War as Theater and War Against Theater
7. Exile
8. Iconoclasm
9. Editorial Note
10. Index
1. Languages and War
2. The Logic of Repression
3. Participation and Resistance
4. Ignorance
5. Z-Culture
6. War as Theater and War Against Theater
7. Exile
8. Iconoclasm
9. Editorial Note
10. Index