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1 online resource (xvi, 355 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : tsarist-era heroes in Stalinist mass culture and propaganda / David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt -- Tolstoi in 1928 : in the mirror of the revolution / William Nickell -- "Do we know how to celebrate jubilees?" Chitatel' i pisatel', 7 November 1928 / Novus -- Rehabilitation and afterimage : Aleksei Tolstoi's many returns to Peter the Great / Kevin M.F. Platt -- "At Aleksei Tolstoi's," Skorokhodovskii rabochii, 15 September 1937 / Anatolii Danat -- Chronicle of a poet's downfall : Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian history, and The epic heroes / A.M. Dubrovsky -- The reaction of writers and artists to the banning of D. Bednyi's comic opera / NKVD report, 1936 -- The adventures of a Leskov story in Soviet Russia, or, The socialist realist opera that wasn't / Andrew B. Wachtel -- "Muddle instead of music," Pravda, 28 January 1936 / (P.M. Kerzhentsev) -- The terrible tsar as comic hero : Mikhail Bulgakov's Ivan Vasil'evich / Maureen Perrie -- Terribly pragmatic : rewriting the history of Ivan IV's reign, 1937-1956 / David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt -- "Memorandum to Stalin concerning A.N. Tolstoi's play Ivan the Terrible," 1941-1943 / A.S. Shcherbakov -- The 1937 Pushkin jubilee as epic trauma / Stephanie Sandler -- "The glory of the Russian people," Pravda, 10 February 1937 -- "What I would like to say about the late poet," Krokodil 5 (1937) / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- "A speech given during the Pushkin Days at a meeting of the Tenants' Cooperative on Malaia Perinnaia, No. 7," Krokodil 5 (1937) / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- The popular reception of S.M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii / David Brandenberger -- "An epic hero-people," Pravda, 7 November 1938 / Mikhail Kol'tsov -- Reinventing the enemy : the villains of Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet stage / Susan Beam Eggers -- "Ivan Susanin on the stage of the Bolshoi theater," Pravda, 7 February 1939 / B. Mordvinov -- Fashioning "our Lermontov" : canonization and conflict in the Stalinist 1930s / David Powelstock -- "In the poet's defense," Pravda, 25 August 1939 / A. Ragozin -- An internationalist's complaint to Stalin and the ensuing scandal, 31 January 1939 [and] 16 February 1939 / V.I. Blium, V. Stepanov -- Conclusion : epic revisionism and the crafting of a Soviet public / James von Geldern |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Popular culture -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
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Russian literature -- History and criticism
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History in literature.
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Propaganda, Soviet -- History -- 20th century
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Russian literature -- Political aspects
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Communism and literature.
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Ideology and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Communism and literature
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Ideology and literature
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History in literature
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Popular culture -- Political aspects
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Propaganda, Soviet
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Russian literature
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Russian literature -- Political aspects
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Letterkunde.
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Russisch.
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Propaganda.
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Soviet Union
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Platt, Kevin M. F., 1967-
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Brandenberger, David.
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| LC no. |
2005011172 |
| ISBN |
9780299215033 |
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0299215032 |
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1282270052 |
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9781282270053 |
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9786612270055 |
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6612270055 |
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