Background
Epstein was born in Moscow, of Jewish heritage. He is a son of Nallm Moiseevich and Mariia Samuilovna (Lifshits) Epstein.
(This work by Michael Epstein is a study of the late Sovie...)
This work by Michael Epstein is a study of the late Soviet decadence of 1970-1980s, its public and private space. The method, according to the author, is destruction of soviet mass consciousness and its myths. 1998 Little Booker Nominee.
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Epstein was born in Moscow, of Jewish heritage. He is a son of Nallm Moiseevich and Mariia Samuilovna (Lifshits) Epstein.
Epstein graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University in 1972. He also finished Institute Slavic/Balkan Studies in Moscow in 1990.
Epstein started his career as a lecturer at Moscow Power Institute in 1973 and worked there till 1977. During this time he also worked as a researcher at World Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since 1986, he worked as a director of interdisciplinary Image and Thought Association in Moscow, and from 1988 to 1990, he became a director of the Laboratory of Contemporary Culture. After moving to the USA in 1990 he became a fellow of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to 1991.
Since 1995, he works as an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta, United States. He is also a contributor of articles to books and periodicals, including Common Knowledge, Postcommunism and the Body Pollies, Postmodern Culture, Re-entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture, The Russian Philosophy of National Spirit: Conservatism and Traditionalism, The Significance of Russian Philosophy, Slavic and East European Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly, Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture, and Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry.
(This work by Michael Epstein is a study of the late Sovie...)
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Epstein married Elena Georgievna Ioukina on May 17 in 1975. They have children: Olga, Dmitrii, Peter and Eugene.