Sex in public : the incarnation of early Soviet ideology / Eric Naiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naiman, Eric, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5238

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and sex--Soviet Union.

Communism and sex.

Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sex in Public examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of soruces-Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular science-the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupation with crime, disease, and, especially, sex. Using strategies of reading developed by literary scholars, he devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts. The book breaks new ground in its attention to the ideological importance of the female body during this important formative stage of Bolshevik rule.Sex in Public provides a fundamentally new history of the New Economic Policy and offers important revisionist readings of many of the fundamental cultural products of the early Soviet period. Perhaps most important, it serves as a model for the sort of interdisciplinary work that is possible when historians take literary and ideology theory seriously and when ideology theorists seek to conform to the standards of documentary rigor traditionally demanded by historians. It thus becomes a study that can be read as both positivistic and postmodern.Eric Naiman is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Menstruation and a New Pair of Glasses

Approaching NEP: Ideological Anxieties and the "Unarmed Eye"

Utopia and Its Infections

Sacrificing Culture / Reading Ideology

Things to Come

The Creation of the Collective Body

Utopia, Misogyny, and the Russian Philosophical Tradition

The Signification of Sex

Fantasies of the War Communist Body

"Let Them Penetrate!": Strategies against Dismemberment

The Discourse of Castration

Behind the Red Door: An Introduction to NEP Gothic

NEP as Female Complaint (I): The Tragedy of Woman

NEP as Female Complaint (II): Revolutionary Anorexia

The Case of Chubarov Alley: Collective Rape and Utopian Desire

The "Facts" of the Case

The Corruption of the Innocent

The Corruption of the Experienced

Ideological Resonance. Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Naiman, Eric, Sex in Public : The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology

ISBN:

9780691194516

0691194513

OCLC:

1079003231