Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s
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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Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s
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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Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

by Keith A. Livers
Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

by Keith A. Livers

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739135266
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 02/16/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 276
File size: 529 KB

About the Author

Keith A. Livers is assistant professor of Russian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Stalinism Embodied
Chapter 2 Turning Men into Women: Andrei Platonov in the 1930s
Chapter 3 Mikhail Zoshchenko: Engineering the Stalinist Soul
Chapter 4 Lev Kassil': The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual
Chapter 5 Conquering the Underworld: The Spectacle of the Stalinist Metro
Chapter 6 Stalinist Bodies on Display
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