Contents
Foreword | Nigel Rothfels
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Integrating the Animal | Jane Costlow and Amy Nelson
Part I. Traditional Worlds and Everyday Life
2. Woman’s Honor, or the Story with a Pig: The Animal in Everyday Life in the Eighteenth-century Russian Provinces | Olga E. Glagoleva
3. Treating the “Other Animals”: Russian Ethnoveterinary Practices in the Context of Folk Medicine | Mikhail Alekseevsky
Part II. Contradictions of Imperial Russia
4. That Savage Gaze: The Contested Portrayal of Wolves in Nineteenth-century Russia | Ian M. Helfant
5. “For the bear to come to your threshold”: Human-Bear Encounters in Late Imperial Russian Writing | Jane Costlow
6. The Body of the Beast: Animal Protection and Anticruelty Legislation in Imperial Russia | Amy Nelson
Part III. Real and Symbolic Animals in the Soviet Project
7. Making Reindeer Soviet: The Appropriation of an Animal on the Kola Peninsula | Andy Bruno
8. The Animal Mayakovsky | Katherine Lahti
9. A Legacy of Kindness: V. L. Durov’s Revolutionary Approach to Animal Training | Ann Kleimola
10. Of Men and Horses: Animal Imagery and the Construction of Russian Masculinities | Arja Rosenholm
Part IV. Boundary Work: Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet “Humanimals”
11. Life of Ferret and the “Manimal” in Post-Soviet Literature | José Alaniz
12. The Animal Watches You: Identity “After” History in Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx | Daria Kabanova
13. The Human Dog Oleg Kulik: Grotesque Post-Soviet Animalistic Performances | Gesine Drews-Sylla
Notes
Contributors
Index