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KIA Literary Agency was founded in 2002 in Tehran with the aim of promoting and supporting fine literary works in all forms throughout the world. It brings about opportunities for authors, illustrators, publishers, translators, and those involved in this field to meet their counterparts. And at the same time, it introduces them to the world and will inform them of all the related events which take place in the world of art and literature.
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January 1989Sex und Perestroika
Liebe in der Sowjetunion
by Geiges, Adrian; Suworowa, Tatjana / Nachwort von Amendt, Günter
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2026AIDS in Soviet Russia
A story of deception, despair and hope
by Rustam Alexander
The first book to tell the shocking story of the AIDS crisis in Soviet Russia. Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem. Arguing that the disease was limited to foreigners and 'immoral' groups, the government failed to take meaningful action, long past the point other countries had begun to recognise the full scale of the threat. In this ground-breaking book, Rustam Alexander tells the story of AIDS in Soviet Russia. Fixated on disinformation, censorship and the persecution of marginalised communities, the Soviet authorities wasted precious time, allowing the epidemic to strike at the very heart of the nation: its children. Yet, despite the government's failure, a number of brave journalists, doctors and nascent gay groups decided to take matters into their own hands and engage in full-fledged AIDS activism. Tracing the political and social response to AIDS in the final years of the Soviet era, Alexander sheds light on the devastating consequences of government inaction. He draws on personal stories, media reports and archival materials to provide a riveting account of the Russian people's fight against AIDS amid the tumultuous transformations of Gorbachev's perestroika.
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International relationsFebruary 2015Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe
by Helen Hardman
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March 2014Buch über Anna
by Michail Ryklin, Gabriele Leupold
Am Karfreitag 2008 verließ Anna Altschuk ihre Charlottenburger Wohnung. Drei Wochen später wurde sie tot aus der Spree geborgen. Bis heute glauben viele Menschen in Russland, dass die Künstlerin von orthodoxen Fanatikern umgebracht wurde. Wenige Jahre zuvor stand sie in Moskau wegen Verletzung religiöser Gefühle vor Gericht und war einer Hetzkampagne ausgesetzt. Wochen vor ihrem Tod hatte sie Morddrohungen im Internet gefunden. Der Philosoph Michail Ryklin versucht, Leben und Sterben Anna Altschuks, mit der er fast 35 Jahre verheiratet war, bis zu dem Tag ihres Verschwindens nachzuzeichnen. Die Spätzeit der Sowjetunion, die turbulenten 90er Jahre, die das Paar nach Frankreich, in die USA, nach Großbritannien und Deutschland führte, und die mit dem Machtantritt Putins beginnende »Eiszeit« bilden den zeithistorischen Hintergrund des Buches. Einfühlsam zeichnet Ryklin das Porträt einer sensiblen, von Selbstzweifeln gepeinigten Frau, die als Lyrikerin, Künstlerin, Feministin auf der Suche war. Er gibt Einblicke in die unabhängige Künstlerszene der Perestroika und macht begreifbar, wie ein Epochenbruch sich im persönlichen Leben auswirken kann: als Euphorie einer nie gekannten Freiheit und − ihre andere, dunkle Seite − als Zustand der Einsamkeit und Entwurzelung. Mit großer Offenheit erzählt er die Geschichte einer Ehe: auch ein persönlicher Überlebensbericht.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2001Bakhtin and cultural theory
Second edition
by Ken Hirschkop, David Shepherd
An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin's contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst others. New articles explore the origins, previously unacknowledged, of Bakhtin's theory of language and provide a vivid account of the dramatic scandal surrounding Bakhtin's thesis on Rabelais. Contains dramatic new material, drawn from post-perestroika sources, which demythologizes the image of this important writer. A new bibliographical essay and introduction bring the English-language reader up-to-date with the progress of Bakhtin studies in Russia. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Soviet materialities
Socialist things, environments and affects
by Mollie Arbuthnot, Christianna Bonin, Gabriella Ferrari
Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to conceptual art under perestroika. It starts from the ethos that the material world shapes people and society. Taking a material approach-or a range of material approaches-can therefore illuminate aspects of the cultural production and lived experiences of Soviet socialism that are not reflected in other kinds of historical records. This edited volume brings cutting-edge research by emerging scholars together with the established voices who have broken the ground in this sub-field over the last twenty years and promises to make a major intervention in the study of Soviet history and culture.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2015
Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe
by Helen Hardman, Bethan Hirst
