russian mosaics consists of windows to the history of russian culture. own and alien deals with the self-definition of culture. the articles look at different ways of defining russianness in russian culture. centre and periphery approaches both the history and the present of russian culture through changing phenomena, movements, trends and isms that define it. in russian culture, intersemiosis refers to the interaction between cultural languages. it includes, for instance, interaction between word and visualisation, music and fashion. st.petersburg places the city to its historical context and deals with the manifestations of the city in modernism and postmodernism. russian mosaics is being continuously updated, new themes are being added and existing ones expanded.
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