by Marina Balina (Editor), Evgeny Dobrenko (Editor)

'Petrified Utopia' redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.

Author Biography

Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian Studies at Sheffield University.