Title Red Britain : the Russian Revolution in mid-century culture / Matthew Taunton

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford mid-century studies Oxford mid-century studies. Contents Introduction -- The radiant future -- Two and two make five -- Crime and punishment -- Homestead versus Kolschoz -- The compensations of illiteracy -- Conclusion Summary Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the conceptual, discursive, and formal reverberations of the Bolshevik Revolution in British literature and culture. It provides new insight into canonical writers including Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Dorothy Richardson, H.G Wells, and Raymond Williams, as well bringing to attention a cast of less-studied writers, intellectuals, journalists, and visitors to the Soviet Union. 0Red Britain shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, Red Britain shows how the medievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 12, 2019) Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Manners and customs. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009673 Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Influence Subject Great Britain. Soviet Union. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191859175 0191859176 9780192549921 0192549928

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