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- Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution—figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Lermontov—Epic Revisionism tells the fascinating story of these individuals’ return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era.
An inherently interdisciplinary project, Epic Revisionism features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater. This volume pairs scholarly essays with selections drawn from Stalin-era primary sources—newspaper articles, unpublished archival documents, short stories—to provide students and specialists with the richest possible understanding of this understudied phenomenon in modern Russian history.“These scholars shed a great deal of light not only on Stalinist culture but on the politics of cultural production under the Soviet system.”—David L. Hoffmann, Slavic Review
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- A Note on Conventions
- p. xiii
- Terms and Acronyms
- pp. xv-xvi
- Lev Tolstoi
- Peter the Great
- The Epic Heroes
- Nikolai Leskov
- Ivan the Terrible
- Aleksandr Pushkin
- 12. The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee as Epic Trauma
- pp. 193-213
- 13. Editorial Eulogy of A. S. Pushkin
- pp. 214-219
- 14. The Pushkin Jubilee as Farce
- pp. 220-229
- Aleksandr Nevskii
- 16. Aleksander Nevskii as Russian Patriot
- pp. 253-258
- Ivan Susanin
- 18. Official Praise for Ivan Susanin
- pp. 276-280
- Mikhail Lermontov
- 20. A Rare Voice of Caution
- pp. 308-312
- Epilogue
- Archival Repository Abbreviations
- pp. 341-342
- Contributors
- pp. 343-345
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299215033
Related ISBN(s)
9780299215002, 9780299215040
MARC Record
OCLC
223399897
Pages
372
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006