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Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the literary and cultural Sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II and emphasize the dialogic relationship between the ‘centre’ and the ‘satellites’ instead of the traditional top-down approach. The introduction of the Soviet cultural model was not quite the smooth endeavour that it was made to look in retrospect; rather, it was always a work in progress, often born out of a give-andtake with the local authorities, intellectuals and interest groups. Relying on archival resources, the authors examine one of the most controversial attempts at a cultural unification in Europe by providing an overview with a focus on specific case-studies, an analysis of distinct particularities with attention to the patterns of negotiation and adaptation that were being developed in the process.

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178308698X

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State Laughter

Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture

By: Evgeny Dobrenko,Natalia Jonsson-Skradol

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State Laughter

Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture

By: Evgeny Dobrenko,Natalia Jonsson-Skradol

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! From comedy films to satirical theatre, from caricature to court speeches, and from Stalin's own writings to bawdy folk songs, humour pervaded the popular culture of the USSR. Until now, conventional wisdom has held that humour was a hallmark of the subversive, but in State Laughter Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with that notion. Instead, tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy from the revolution through to the 1950s, they explore how and why laughter was a core component of the survival of the Soviet regime. Grounded in Soviet intellectual and cultural history, State Laughter offers the first comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored popular culture in Stalin's Soviet Union.

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Oxford University Press

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0192576844

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Late Stalinism

The Aesthetics of Politics

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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Late Stalinism

The Aesthetics of Politics

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

How the last years of Stalin’s rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period—beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953—Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.

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Yale University Press

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0300252846

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Aesthetics of Alienation

Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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Aesthetics of Alienation

Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

This provocative work takes issue with the idea that Socialist Realism was mainly the creation of party leaders and was imposed from above on the literati who lived and worked under the Soviet regime. Evgeny Dobrenko, a leading expert on Soviet literature, argues instead--and offers persuasive evidence--that the aesthetic theories underpinning Socialist Realism arose among the writers themselves, born of their proponents' desire for power in the realm of literary policymaking. Accordingly, Dobrenko closely considers the evolution of these theories, deciphering the power relations and social conditions that helped to shape them. In chapters on Proletkult, RAPP, LEF, and Pereval, Dobrenko reexamines the theories generated by these major Marxist literary groupings of the early Soviet Union. He shows how each approached the problems of literature's response to the presumed social mandate of the young communist society, and how Socialist Realism emerged as a conglomerate of these earlier, revolutionary theories. With extensive and detailed reference to supporting testimony and documents, Dobrenko clearly demonstrates how Socialist Realism was created from within the revolutionary culture, and how this culture and its disciples fully participated in this creative process. His work represents a major breakthrough in our current understanding of the complex sources that contributed to early Soviet culture.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810120259

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9780810120259

Late Stalinism

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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Late Stalinism

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

How the last years of Stalin's rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period--beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953--Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.

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0300198477

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Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History

Museum of the Revolution

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History

Museum of the Revolution

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history. Cinema's role in the legitimization of Stalinism and the production of a new Soviet identity was enormous. Both Lenin and Stalin saw in this 'most important of arts' the most effective form of propaganda and 'organisation of the masses'. By examining the works of the greatest Soviet filmmakers of the Stalin era--Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler--the author explores the role of the cinema in the formation of the Soviet political imagination.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748632433

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Aesthetics of Alienation

Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories

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State Laughter

Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture

By: Evgeny Dobrenko,Natalia Jonsson-Skradol

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Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture

By: Evgeny Dobrenko,Natalia Jonsson-Skradol

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.

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Oxford University Press

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0198840411

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Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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The Making of the State Reader

Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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The Making of the State Reader

Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

A history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, the State appropriation of the reader. Literature from the revolutionary and Soviet eras performed substantive political and ideological functions in the authorities' overall system (which included the publishing business, the book trade, and schools) aimed at ultimately creating a new Soviet person. This book shows how people from various social classes, in a dynamic unknown in pre-Soviet history, not only consumed the products of a new culture but in fact created that culture.

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Stanford University Press

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0804780382

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9780804780384

Russian Literature since 1991

By: Evgeny Dobrenko,Mark Lipovetsky

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Russian Literature since 1991

By: Evgeny Dobrenko,Mark Lipovetsky

An international team of leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of post-Soviet Russian literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107068517

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The Making of the State Writer

Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

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The Making of the State Writer

Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture

By: Evgeny Dobrenko

This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (Stanford, 1997). The history of the literary process of the Soviet era, understood as the living process of the clash of political and ideological aspirations and the interests and psychology of cultural elites, allows one to understand the social origins and cultural aims of Stalinist art in an entirely new way. Previous scholarship has concentrated largely on Sovietological answers to the basic problems of Stalinist aesthetics--such as "political control," "repressions," and "pressure from the regime." However, the author demonstrates that Socialist Realism is not so much directed as it is self-directed; it is not a matter of control but of self-control. The transformation of the author into his own censor is the true history of Soviet literature. Socialist Realism is cultural revolution not only from above but from below as well. The state simply took into account, and accurately discerned, the demands of the masses, and Soviet literature became the reader's answer to these demands. The reader not only shaped Socialist Realist aesthetics down to his own expectations, but in fact created it. The Soviet writer was yesterday's Soviet reader who had learned how to write books. The Soviet writer can be called the product of authority only to the extent that this authority recognized and institutionalized what Lenin called the "lively creativity of the masses." On the other hand, the author shows, the Soviet writer is the radical realization and embodiment of the nineteenth-century Russian populist utopia of enlightenment of the people.

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1503617513

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White Guard

By: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov,Marian Schwartz,Evgeny Dobrenko

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White Guard

By: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov,Marian Schwartz,Evgeny Dobrenko

White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakovs semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mothertheir father had died years beforeand find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this familys personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social, moral, and political certainties. He confronts the reader with the bewildering cruelty that ripped Russian life apart at the beginning of the last century as well as with the extraordinary ways in which the Turbins preserved their humanity. In this volume Marian Schwartz, a leading translator, offers the first complete and accurate translation of the definitive original text of Bulgakovs novel. She includes the famous dream sequence, omitted in previous translations, and beautifully solves the stylistic issues raised by Bulgakovs ornamental prose. Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakovs important early work. This edition also contains an informative historical essay by Evgeny Dobrenko.

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Yale University Press

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0300148194

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Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

State Laughter

State Laughter

Late Stalinism

Late Stalinism

Aesthetics of Alienation

Aesthetics of Alienation

Late Stalinism

Late Stalinism

Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History

Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History

Aesthetics of Alienation

Aesthetics of Alienation

State Laughter

State Laughter

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures Under Stalin

The Making of the State Reader

The Making of the State Reader

Russian Literature since 1991

Russian Literature since 1991

The Making of the State Writer

The Making of the State Writer

White Guard

White Guard

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