The First Nevada Confence on Russian Culture

Unniversity of Nevada Las Vegas
November 23-25, 1992


Contents


Dmitri Shalin
Introduction: Continuity and Change in Russian Culture

Boris Paramonov
Russia in Search of Its History

Igor Kon
Public Morality and Private Responsibility

Yuri Levada
Public Opinion and the Resurgence of Political Culture

Alexander Etkind
Ambivalence and Resistance to Social Change


Dmitri Shalin
The End of Russian Intelligentsi?

Jerry Pankhurst
Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Svetlana Boym
From Communal Living to Private Life

Zara Abdullaeva
Russian Folklore and Mores

Maurice Friedberg
New Soviet Man" in the Mirror of Literature

Daniil Dondurei
Russian Artists Facing The Trial by Freedom

Vladimir Magun
Work Ethics under Perestroika



*More inofrmation about this and related projects can be found on the web site of the UNLV Center for Democratic Culture, http://cdclv.unlv.edu/index.html.