Style and S(t)imulation: Popular Magazines, or the Aestheticization of Postsoviet Russia

The new Postsoviet genre of the glossy magazine that inundated bookstalls and kiosks in Russia's urban centers served as both an advertisement for a life of luxury and an advice column on chic style. Conventionalized signs of affluence, models of beauty, "educational" articles on topi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helena Goscilo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2000-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol24/iss1/3