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Constructing the Stalinist Body
Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s
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2009
Summary
Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship within the context of Stalinist ideology of the 1930s and '40s. Author Keith A. Livers examines the ways in which Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Kassil' and other authors used corporeal imagery as a means of both resisting and furthering the idea of a Stalinist utopia and the ideologically purified body politic it aspired to produce. The final chapter of the book looks at collective and popular representations of the Moscow subway (completed in 1935), which was one of the most important construction projects of the 1930s and was at the same time portrayed as a microcosm of the ideal world of Socialism to come.
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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0773-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3526-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
272
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction. Stalinism Embodied No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter One. Turning Men into Women: Andrei Platonov in the 1930s No access Pages 27 - 90
Chapter Two. Mikhail Zoshchenko: Engineering the Stalinist Body and Soul No access Pages 91 - 152
Chapter Three. Lev Kassil': The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual No access Pages 153 - 188
Chapter Four. Conquering the Underworld: The Spectacle of the Stalinist Metro No access Pages 189 - 236
Conclusion. Stalinist Bodies on Display No access Pages 237 - 246
