
Contents
Editors’ Foreword
Forum: On Copyright and Culture: Discussion of an Article by Sergei Sokolovskiy
Sergei Sokolovskiy. Some Stories about Copyright and Culture
Yuri Berezkin, Michael Brown, Anastasia Ilchenko, Olga Murashko, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Nadezhda Pechenina, Dimitris Plantzos, Marilyn Strathern
Sergei Sokolovskiy. Copyright, Aboriginality and Cultural Heritage: the Paradoxes of Liberalism and Communitarism in Economics, Politics and Law
The Anthropology of Russian Politics
Dmitry Mukhin. Village Assemblies in Vologda Province at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries
Alexandra Kasatkina. Dacha Life and ‘Political Warfare’: The Problems of Self-Organisation in Contemporary Russian Garden Cooperatives
Ekaterina Melnikova. Notes on the Ethnography of Elections
‘Traditions’ in Soviet Theory and Practice
Sergei Alymov. The Concept of the ‘Survival’ and Soviet Social Science in the 1950s and 1960s
Dmitry Baranov. ‘Imparting’ Traditions: How the National Past was Written into the Narrative of the Soviet People
Alexandra Piir. A Tradition that Never Was: Working with Children in Leningrad Housing Administrations
Konstantin Bogdanov. Soviet Champagne: A Festive History
Catriona Kelly. Leningrad Cuisine / La cuisine leningradaise: A Contradiction in Terms?
Reviews
Alexandra Kasatkina. Melissa Caldwell’s Dacha Idyll: Review of Melissa Caldwell. Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2011
Amandine Regamey. No Laughing Matter: Review of Alexandra Arkhippova, Mikhail Melnichenko. Anekdoty o Staline. Teksty, kommentarii, issledovaniya [Jokes about Stalin: Texts, Commentaries, Studies]. Moscow: OGI; RGGU, 2010