Petrified utopia : happiness Soviet style / / edited by Marina Balina, Evgeny Dobrenko [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459281003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-283-37783-7; 9786613377838; 1-84331-817-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiv, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
• Disciplina: 947.084
• Soggetti: Happiness - Social aspects - Soviet Union - History; Happiness - Political aspects - Soviet Union - History; Utopias - Soviet Union - History; Communism and culture - Soviet Union - History; Social values - Soviet Union - History; Identity (Psychology) - Soviet Union - History; Group identity - Soviet Union - History; Soviet Union Social life and customs Congresses; Soviet Union Social conditions Congresses; Soviet Union Intellectual life Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A joyful Soviet childhood : licensed happiness for little ones / Catriona Kelly -- Utopian naturalism : the epic poem of kolkhoz happiness / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Luxuriating in lack : plentitude and consuming happiness in Soviet paintings and posters, 1920s-1953 / Helena Goscilo -- Tasty and healthy : Soviet happiness in one book / Gian Piero Piretto -- "It's grand to be an orphan!" : crafting happy citizens in Soviet children's literature of the 1920s / Marina Balina -- Sew yourself Soviet : the pleasures of textile in the machine age / Emma Widdis -- Happy housewarming! : moving into Khrushchev-era apartments / Susan E. Reid -- When we were happy : remembering Soviet holidays / Albert Baiburin and Alexandra Piir -- The 'new Moscow' and the new ; 'happiness' : architecture as a nodal point in the Stalinist system of value / Katerina Clark -- Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow : Tolstoi, Stalin and the Soviet self / Phillip Ross Bullock -- 'But where is your happiness, Alevtina Ivanovna?' : new debates about happiness in the Soviet films of 1956 / Julian Graffy -- Easy on the heart ; or 'Strength through joy' / Maya Turovskaya.
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘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.