Stalin Era Intellectuals

Culture and Stalinism
Herausgeber: Oittinen, Vesa; Viljanen, Elina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Contemporary Russia
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781032114200
• ISBN-10: 1032114207
• Artikelnr.: 65611646

Autorenporträt

Vesa Oittinen is a professor emeritus of Russian philosophy and intellectual history at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). His publications focus on the history of philosophy, especially Spinoza, German classical philosophy and Marxism, and on Russian and Soviet philosophy. Elina Viljanen is a post-doctoral scholar at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). Holding a PhD in musicology, she specialises in Russian intellectual history of music and Soviet culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: On Soviet Intellectual Culture during the Stalin Era 2
Fighting Avant-Garde with Phenomenology: Gustav Shpet's 'New Realism' 3
Stalin and Philosophy in Soviet Russia 4 'Menshevising Idealism' and
Stalinisation of Philosophy 5 The Naked Truth of Fact: Andrey Platonov on
the Margins of Factography 6 Everyday Symphonism: Boris Asafiev's Soviet
Theory of Popular Music 7 Confronting Modernism in the Stalin Era: Mikhail
Lifshits as Critic and Philosopher of Culture 8 Maxim Gorky as Spokesman
for Proletarian Humanism 9 Sofya Yanovskaya in Defence of Abstractions:
Between Soviet Ideology and Bourgeois Idealism 10 The Anti-Fascist Cultural
Theory of Nikolai Bukharin and the Concept of Socialist Humanism 11 Nikolay
Marr's Theory of Language and Konstantin Megrelidze's Historical Science of
Thought 12 Between Critique and Conformism: The Languages and Cultures of
Caste and Nation in Stalin-Era Indology 13 Stalinism, War, and Artistic
Representation of Reality: Konstantin Simonov's Critique of the 'System of
Silence' in 1956