{"product_id":"beau-monde-on-empires-edge-9781487501532","title":"Beau Monde on Empires Edge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring Ukraine's multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book offers a necessary reappraisal of the formative Soviet decades in Ukraine and helps us understand better how Soviet culture developed across the Soviet Union… It offers a new and original angle to studying Soviet nationalities policy.\" -- Olena Palko * \u003cem\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This engaging book is a model of interdisciplinary work, undoubtedly facilitated by Fowler’s background in theatre… Her study challenges established historians who ignore cultural production, and it deserves to be read by scholars of diverse disciplines. \" -- Susan Costanzo * \u003cem\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge indeed offers an outstanding account of un-making the late imperial South East and the subsequent development of early Soviet culture in the newly created Soviet Ukraine…[it] presents an elaborate theoretical and contextual account which can help to locate the artists and their art in a specific time and a specific locality. It should be interesting for both academic and non-academic readers.\" -- Yuliya Yurchuk * \u003cem\u003eBaltic Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge is a tour de force that will have far-reaching consequences for the way we understand Soviet national culture, and how we understand the field of Ukrainian studies itself.\" -- Oleh Kotsyuba, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University * \u003cem\u003eHarvard Ukrainian Studies Journal \u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mayhill Fowler’s account of Soviet Ukraine’s 'beau monde' has managed to accomplish something that the central characters in her book often found elusive: telling a story that is both Soviet and Ukrainian.\" -- Kathryn David, New York University * \u003cem\u003eCanadian-American Slavic Studies\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An elegantly written and entertaining book, with a well-crafted argument and a timely focus on Ukraine’s cultural diversity and identity politics.\" -- Myorslav Shkandrij * \u003cem\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The interaction of minority national cultures, empire, and international modernism is at the heart of Mayhill Fowler’s study of theatre in early twentieth-century Ukraine. Fowler offers several useful ideas for researchers working in the field of Soviet\/Russian imperial culture and beyond.\" -- Uilleam Blacker, \u003cem\u003eKritika\u003c\/em\u003e * \u003cem\u003eExplorations in Russian and Eurasian History\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mayhill Fowler’s book is an engrossing and persuasive new look at the formation of Soviet culture as it took shape within the performing arts. Her basic tenets may be usefully applied to other aspects, among them the way in which émigré culture sought to define itself in opposition to its Soviet counterpart.\" -- Laurence Senelick * \u003cem\u003eThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is cultural history at its best. Fowler’s subtle reading of forgotten cultural events draws out their significance in a way that opens up new conceptual vistas. Her work makes a major contribution to Ukrainian studies and the field of Soviet cultural history; it can also attract a wider audience of theatre lovers.\" -- Serhy Yekelchyk * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   Acknowledgements   Note to the Reader on Transliteration   Abbreviations   Introduction: The Beau Monde on the Borderlands   Chapter 1: The Russian Imperial Southwest: Theater in the Age of Modernism and Pogroms   Chapter 2: The Literary Fair: Mikhail Bulgakov and Mykola Kulish   Chapter 3: Comedy Soviet and Ukrainian?: Il'f-Petrov and Ostap Vyshnia   Chapter 4: The Officical Artist: Solomon Mikhoels and Les' Kurbas   Chapter 5: The Arts Official: Andrii Khvylia, Vsevolod Balyts'kyi, and the Kremlin   Chapter 6: Soviet Beau Monde: The Gulag and Kremlin Cabaret   Notes   Selected Bibliography   Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187719102807,"sku":"9781487501532","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487501532.jpg?v=1782124670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beau-monde-on-empires-edge-9781487501532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}