ISBN:
9783030826505
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.345
Keywords:
Civilization-History
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Communism and culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Communism and Culture -- The Commissars and the Creators -- The PROLETKULT -- Art and Power -- The End of Art and the Construction of Life -- Social Condensers -- A Literature of Fact -- A Photograph by Rodchenko -- Fellow Travelers -- 2 Stalinist Culture -- Socialist Realism -- The Moscow Metro -- Stalin and Culture -- Returning Home -- The Circus -- Stalinist Culture as Mythocracy -- Strategies of Resistance -- The Stalin's Epigram -- The Stalin Cult -- Zhdanovschina -- 3 De-Stalinization -- The Thaw -- Fadeev's Suicide -- Breaking with the Big Lie -- Mao: Reform or Trap? -- The Cranes Are Flying -- Pasternak's Nobel Prize -- The Manezh Affair -- The Bulldozers Exhibition -- The Solzhenitsyn Effect -- Thaw and Freeze in Romania -- Glasnost -- 4 Censorship -- Censorship and Self-Censorship -- Maya Plisetskaya, Censored -- The "Unknown" Girl from Minsk -- Marx, Groucho, and Dali's Telegram -- 5 Counterculture -- Stilyagi -- Rockers and Hippies -- Tamizdat and Samizdat -- Political Jokes -- The Bards -- 6 Picasso, the Most Celebrated Communist After Stalin and Mao Zedong -- 7 Mao's Cultural Revolution -- 8 The Che Image -- 9 Epilog: What Remains? Of Dreams, Passions, and Ashes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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