Dr Claire McCallum

Research interests

  • Soviet gender ideals and their representation
  • Soviet culture and its mobilisation
  • Soviet ideas of domesticity and private life, particularly relating to fatherhood
  • Soviet representations of the injured and disabled body and the notion of the heroic
  • The art of the Peredvizhniki and ideas of Russianness in the late imperial period
  • The relationship between the Peredvizhniki and the development of Socialist Realism