 | Overkill Subjects: Post-communism; Popular literature; Violence in mass media.; Sex in mass media.; Violence in popular culture; Sex in popular culture; Popular culture; Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats. Eliot Borenstein is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929 . |
