How the Soviet man was unmade : cultural fantasy and male subjectivity under Stalin / Lilya Kaganovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaganovsky, Lilya, author.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Motion pictures--Soviet Union--History.

Motion pictures.

Masculinity in literature.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Men in literature.

Men in motion pictures.

Socialist realism in literature.

Socialist realism in motion pictures.

Socialist realism--Soviet Union.

Socialist realism.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath the surface of this fantasy, between the lines of texts and in film, lurked another figure: the wounded body of the heroic invalid, the second version of Stalin's New Man. In How the Soviet Man Was Unmade, Lilya Kaganovsky exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. In her analysis of.

Contents:

Introduction: "Bodies that matter"

How the Soviet man was (un)made

Visual pleasure in Stalinist cinema

Heterosexual panic

What does woman want?

Epilogue: "Female masculinity."

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.

ISBN:

9780822973430

082297343X

OCLC:

890132080