Soviet Culture and Power : A History in Documents, 1917-1953 / Yehuda Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Yehuda, Author.

Contributor:

Dobrenko, E. A. (Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich)

Artizov, A. N. (Andreĭ Nikolaevich), 1958-

Naumov, Oleg V.

Series:

Annals of Communism.

Annals of communism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Politics and culture.

Power (Social sciences)--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Power (Social sciences).

Communism and intellectuals--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Communism and intellectuals.

Communism and culture--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Communism and culture.

Politics and literature--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Politics and literature.

Soviet Union--Cultural policy--History--Sources.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and direct it in every way possible. This book examines Soviet cultural politics from the Revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. Drawing on a wealth of newly released documents from the archives of the former Soviet Union, the book provides remarkable insight on relations between Gorky, Pasternak, Babel, Meyerhold, Shostakovich, Eisenstein, and many other intellectuals, and the Soviet leadership. Stalin's role in directing these relations, and his literary judgments and personal biases, will astonish many.The documents presented in this volume reflect the progression of Party control in the arts. They include decisions of the Politburo, Stalin's correspondence with individual intellectuals, his responses to particular plays, novels, and movie scripts, petitions to leaders from intellectuals, and secret police reports on intellectuals under surveillance. Introductions, explanatory materials, and a biographical index accompany the documents.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Note on Transliteration

Note on the Documents

Soviet Organizational Acronyms and Abbreviations

Part One. The Twenties

Part Two. The Thirties

Part Three. The Forties

Notes

Glossary of Names

List of Documents

Index

Notes:

"This book is based on selections from a book of documents compiled by Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov and published in Russian as Vlastʹ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsiia : dokumenty TsK RKP(b)--VKP(b), VChK--OGPU--NKVD o kulʹturnoi politike, 1917-1953 gg (Power and the creative intelligentsia : documents (of the Communist Party and the secret Police) on cultural policy, 1917-1953) by Mezhdunarodny fond Demokratia (International Democracy Foundation), Moscow, 1999"--Title page verso.

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-482) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300150001

0300150008

OCLC:

884499515