The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space

Contents

CONTENTS List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration x Introduction xi ERIC NAIMAN Part One: Space and Art 1 Socialist Realism and the Sacralizing of Space 3 KATERINA CLARK 2 The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles around Stalin 19 JAN PLAMPER 3 Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s 51 OKSANA BULGAKOWA 4 “Broad Is My Motherland”: The Mother Archetype and Space in the Soviet Mass Song 77 HANS GÜNTHER 5 The Art of Totality 96 BORIS GROYS Part Two: Mobilizing the Soviet Subject 6 All This Can Be Yours!: Soviet Commercial Advertising and the Social Construction of Space, 1928–1956 125 RANDI COX 7 The Art of Social Navigation: The Cultural Topography of the Stalin Era 163 EVGENY DOBRENKO 8 “But Eastward, Look, the Land Is Brighter”: Toward a Topography of Utopia in the Stalinist Musical 201 RICHARD TAYLOR v Part Three: The Blank Page 9 To Explore or Conquer?: Mobile Perspectives on the Soviet Cultural Revolution 219 EMMA WIDDIS 10 Tabula Rasa in the North: The Soviet Arctic and Mythic Landscapes in Stalinist Popular Culture 241 JOHN MCCANNON 11 “The Best in the World”: The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s 261 MIKHAIL RYKLIN 12 Russo-Soviet Topoi 277 MIKHAIL EPSTEIN Contributors 307 Index 311 vi Contents ...