My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin Style:Hardback New York-based cultural strategist András

New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders

The book accompanies an exhibition that traces Ukrainian artistic developments between 1900 and the 1930s in three key cultural centres – Kharkiv

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Communist shop windows may long have passed from history into irony

Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with

My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin Style:Hardback New York-based cultural strategist AndrásIn My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russias problems, from the Kievan Rus via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty year old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to peoples rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from slave mentality,