@misc{113771,
  author = {Serguei Alex. Oushakine},
  title = {Country city. A review of Catriona Kelly{\textquoteright}s "St. Petersburg: Shadows of the Past." Yale UP, 2014.},
  abstract = { In St Petersburg: Shadows of the past, Catriona Kelly tells the story of the city{\textquoteright}s least glamorous but also least traumatic period. Tracing the life of Soviet Leningrad from the 1950s to the 1980s and the post-Soviet transformation of St Petersburg after 1990, Kelly explores the city dwellers{\textquoteright} persistent inclination~<br>to view their present through the lens of the past. The main problem, as Kelly shows, is that this past is not entirely user-friendly. {\textquotedblleft}Extreme beauty is unsettling and difficult to~<br>live with{\textquotedblright}, she writes in her preface, setting the tone for the volume. Her book is a remarkable attempt to show how this difficulty has been managed, avoided, or repressed. },
  year = {2014},
  journal = {Times Literary Supplement (TLS)},
  volume = {2014},
  pages = {9},
  language = {eng},
}