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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459281003321

Titolo

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

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790846503321

Autore

Ben-Yehuda Nachman

Titolo

Atrocity, deviance, and submarine warfare : norms and practices during the world wars / / Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2013]

ISBN

0-472-02932-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Configurations : critical studies of world politics

Disciplina

940.4/51

Soggetti

Submarine warfare - History

Atrocities

Deviant behavior

War and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-323) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Challenging cultural cores and symbolic-moral universes -- Developing submarines -- Wars, culture, and unrestricted submarine warfare -- Attempting to curb escalating brutalities and some illustrations -- Development of submarine warfare in two world wars -- Pigboat warfare: acts of extreme deviance -- Concluding discussion.

Sommario/riassunto

In an era of changing ethics, the submarine has inaugurated a new type of unrestricted naval warfare