Bern: Peter Lang, Date: 2012. Russian Transformations: Literature, Thought, Culture, Volume 4. Paperback. Covers are unmarked, pages are clean, and the text is clear. TH. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. 2012. Peter Lang ISBN 303430787x 9783034307871 [GB]

ISBN10: 303430787X, ISBN13: 9783034307871, [publisher: Peter Lang] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2012]
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ISBN10: 303430787X, ISBN13: 9783034307871, [publisher: Peter Lang] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2012]
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