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This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the doctrine of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded.

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A note on transliteration 1. Overcoming the reader: the aesthetics of reception - á la Sovie;tique 2. Grains of humanity 3. The disaster of mediocre taste or, who 'thought up' Socialist Realism? The reader as critic 4. Storing up readers: the school and the ideology of literature 5. The power and powerlessness of books: from 'cultural revolution' to 'cultural construction' 6. The end of a perspective: the library - turning loaves into stones 7. The art of belonging to the people: from the empirical to the ideal reader 8. Korchagin's happiness: the ideal reader Notes Bibliography Index.

The Making of the State Reader

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 November 1997
      ISBN-13 9780804728546
      978-0804728546
      ISBN-10 0804728542

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the doctrine of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded.

      Table of Contents
      A note on transliteration 1. Overcoming the reader: the aesthetics of reception - á la Sovie;tique 2. Grains of humanity 3. The disaster of mediocre taste or, who 'thought up' Socialist Realism? The reader as critic 4. Storing up readers: the school and the ideology of literature 5. The power and powerlessness of books: from 'cultural revolution' to 'cultural construction' 6. The end of a perspective: the library - turning loaves into stones 7. The art of belonging to the people: from the empirical to the ideal reader 8. Korchagin's happiness: the ideal reader Notes Bibliography Index.

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