Download or read book Imitations of Life written by Louise McReynolds and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVUses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period./div