The landscape of Stalinism : the art and ideology of Soviet space / edited by Evgeny Dobrenko and Eric Naiman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobrenko, E. A. (Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich)

Naiman, Eric, 1958-

Series:

Studies in modernity and national identity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and culture--Soviet Union.

Communism and culture.

Soviet Union.

Socialist realism.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Stalin, Joseph.

Physical Description:

xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2003]

Contents:

Part 1 Space and Art

1 Socialist Realism and the Sacralizing of Space / Katerina Clark 3

2 The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles around Stalin / Jan Plamper 19

3 Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s / Oksana Bulgakowa 51

4 "Broad Is My Motherland": The Mother Archetype and Space in the Soviet Mass Song / Hans Gunther 77

5 The Art of Totality / Boris Groys 96

Part 2 Mobilizing the Soviet Subject

6 All This Can Be Yours!: Soviet Commercial Advertising and the Social Construction of Space, 1928-1956 / Randi Cox 125

7 The Art of Social Navigation: The Cultural Topography of the Stalin Era / Evgeny Dobrenko 163

8 "But Eastward, Look, the Land Is Brighter": Toward a Topography of Utopia in the Stalinist Musical / Richard Taylor 201

Part 3 The Blank Page

9 To Explore or Conquer?: Mobile Perspectives on the Soviet Cultural Revolution / Emma Widdis 219

10 Tabula Rasa in the North: The Soviet Arctic and Mythic Landscapes in Stalinist Popular Culture / John McCannon 241

11 "The Best in the World": The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s / Mikhail Ryklin 261

12 Russo-Soviet Topoi / Mikhail Epstein 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0295983337

OCLC:

52127873