{"product_id":"charlottengrad-russian-culture-in-weimar-berlin-9780299344443","title":"Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s  most of them in Berlin  clustered in and around the Charlottenburg neighborhood to such a degree that it became known as Charlottengrad. Traditionally  the Russian migr community has been understood as one of exiles aligned with Imperial Russia and hostile to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet government that followed. However  Charlottengrad hosted a full range of personal and political positions vis--vis the Soviet project  from enthusiastic loyalty to questioning ambivalence and pessimistic alienation.  By closely examining the intellectual output of Charlottengrad  Roman Utkin explores how community members balanced their sense of Russianness with their position in a modern Western city charged with artistic  philosophical  and sexual freedom. He highlights how Russian authors abroad engaged with Weimar-era cultural energies while sustaining a distinctly Russian perspective on modernist expression  and follows queer Russian artists and writers who  with their German counterparts  charted a continuous evolution in political and cultural attitudes toward both the Weimar and Soviet states.  Utkin provides insight into the exile community in Berlin  which was one of the earliest to face and collectively process the peculiarly modern problem of statelessness. Charlottengrad analyzes the cultural praxis of Russia Abroad in a dynamic Berlin  investigating how these Russian migrs and exiles navigated what it meant to be Russian when the Russia they knew no longer existed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665810841653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0299344444","price":92.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780299344443.jpg?v=1782408148","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/charlottengrad-russian-culture-in-weimar-berlin-9780299344443","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}