Late Stalinism

The Aesthetics of Politics

Late Stalinism
Evgeny Dobrenko, Jesse M Savage
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4 Aug 2020 US
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9780300198478
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How the last years of Stalin' s rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period-beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953-Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia. ]]>
"[T]his study is both serious and approachable, laying bare the madness that overtakes a society when in the grip of political correctness. "-Alexander Adams, The Critic "Late Stalinism is both unsettling and hard to ignore. Dobrenko argues that Stalin' s all-encompassing ethnic Russianness rooted deeply in everything from literature and philosophy to film, linguistics, and even biology; that it redefined national identity in the Soviet era and has now germinated anew in Putin' s Russia. This book promises to stimulate debate about the country' s past, present, and future. "-Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University, author of The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks "Dobrenko has produced a magisterial study of Soviet culture in the 1940s, to him the most truly Stalinist period. This is a much more sophisticated and original interpretation of the decade than we have seen to date, and it will be essential reading for all those interested in Soviet history and culture. "-Katerina Clark, Yale University
Evgeny Dobrenko is professor of Russian studies at the University of Sheffield.
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ISBN-13: 9780300198478
Published: 4 Aug 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 250mm
Width: 159mm
Spine: 37mm
Weight: 978g
Pages: 584

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