Description
Book SynopsisPortrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Stalin years, especially in the 1930s. This title explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space.
Trade Review"A fascinating collection..This important collection on the landscape of Stalinism is both compelling and original."
* Slavic Review *
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note of Transliteration
Introduction--Eric Naiman
PART ONE: SPACE AND ART
1. Socialist Realism and the Sacralizing of Space--Katerina Clark
2. The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles around Stalin--Jan Plamper
3. Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s--Oksana Bulgakowa
4. "Broad is My Motherland": The Mother Archetype and Space in the Soviet Mass Song--Hans Gunther
5. The Art of Totality--Boris Groys
PART TWO: MOBILIZING THE SOVIET SUBJECT
6. All This Can Be Yours!: Soviet Commercial Advertising and the Social Construction of Space, 1928-1956--Randi Cox
7. The Art of Social Navigation: The Cultural Topography of the Stalin Era--Evgeny Dobrenko
8. "But Eastward, Look, the Land is Brighter": Toward a Topography of Utopia in the Stalinist Musical--Richard Taylor
PART THREE: THE BLANK PAGE
9. To Explore or Conquer?: Mobil Perspectives on the Soviet Cultural Revolution--Emma Widdis
10. Tabula Rasa in the North: The Soviet Arctic and Mythic Landscapes in Stalinist Popular Culture--John McCannon
11. "The Best in the World": The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s--Mikhail Ryklin
12. Russo-Soviet Topoi--Mikhail Epstein
Contributors
Index
