| Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature Contributor(s): Kahn, Andrew (Other), Maguire, Muireann (Author) |
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ISBN: 303430787X ISBN-13: 9783034307871 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $89.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 891.709 |
| LCCN: 2012951852 |
| Series: Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (1.05 lbs) 331 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism. |