Author Daria Ezerova

Daria Ezerova

Daria Ezerova is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She is a specialist on twentieth-century and contemporary Russian literature and cinema, and is about to complete her dissertation, “Derelict Futures: The Spaces of Socialism in Contemporary Russian Literature and Film".

Little Vera

1988: Little Vera (Vasily Pichul)

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

“A Bomb into the Lap of Mother Russia”: Little Vera (Vasiliy Pichul, 1988) In May 1989, an issue of the American magazine Playboy caused a furore in the Soviet Union. The cover model, Natalya Negoda, clad in a...