"An engaging look at a vibrant area of research. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice

"[T]his book is a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture. It explores many unfamiliar facets of everyday Russia and reveals new, unexpected angles of familiar topics."—The Russian Review

"Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present . . . offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the 'state of play' of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia."—Slavic Review

"Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present is an excellent and ambitious edited collection . . . . The authors . . . are some of the best in theeld and their contributions challenge and expand our understanding of the concept of everyday life as lived in prerevolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia."—Canadian Slavonic Papers

"An outstanding collection about an important topic that is approached through a series of insightful, interdisciplinary chapters. . . . An impressive work."—Stephen M. Norris, author of Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism

"Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present provides a fascinating, three-hundred and sixty degree panorama of everyday life in Imperial Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet society.The volume includes some of the best scholars in the field who expand, broaden and diversify the meaning of 'everyday life' in history, anthropology, and literature and film studies."—Kate Brown, author of Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters