Petrified Utopia

Happiness Soviet Style
Herausgeber: Balina, Marina; Dobrenko, Evgeny

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Produktbeschreibung

'Petrified Utopia' redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780857283900
• ISBN-10: 0857283901
• Artikelnr.: 33396216

Autorenporträt

Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian Studies at Sheffield University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Utopics: A Joyful Soviet Childhood: Happiness for Little Ones
Utopian Naturalism: The Epic Poem of Kolkhoz Happiness
Luxuriating in Lack
Plentitude and Consuming in Soviet Paintings and Posters, 1920-1953
Tasty and Healthy
Soviet Happiness in One Book
Part Two: Realities
‘It’s Grand to Be an Orphan!’ Crafting Happy Citizens in Soviet Children’s Literature of the 1920s
Sew Yourself Soviet: The Pleasures of Textile in the Machine Age
Happy Housewarming: Moving Into Kruschev-Era Apartments
‘When We Were Happy’: Remembering Soviet Holidays
Part Three: Locations
The ‘New Moscow’ and the New ‘Happiness’: Architecture as a Nodal Point in the Stalinist System of Value
Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow: Tolstoi, Stalin and the Soviet Self
‘But Where Is Your Happiness, Alevtina Ivanovna?: New Debates About Happiness in the Soviet Films of 1956
Easy on the Heart, or ‘Strength Through Joy’