Epic revisionism [[electronic resource] ] : Russian history and literature as Stalinist propaganda / / Kevin M.F. Platt and David Brandenberger, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815930003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-27005-2; 9786612270055; 0-299-21503-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 355 p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): PlattKevin M. F. <1967->; BrandenbergerDavid
• Disciplina: 891.709/358
• Soggetti: Popular culture - Political aspects - Soviet Union; Russian literature - History and criticism; History in literature; Propaganda, Soviet - History - 20th century; Russian literature - Political aspects; Communism and literature; Ideology and literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Conventions -- Terms and Acronyms -- Introduction: Tsarist-Era Heroes in Stalinist Mass Culture and Propaganda -- Lev Tolstoi -- 1. Tolstoi in 1928: In the Mirror of the Revolution -- 2. Press Commentary on the Tolstoi Centenary Celebration -- Peter the Great -- 3. Rehabilitation and Afterimage: Aleksei Tolstoi's Many Returns to Peter the Great -- 4. Aleksei Tolstoi's Remarks on the Film Peter I -- The Epic Heroes -- 5. Chronicle of a Poet's Downfall: Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian History, and The Epic Heroes -- 6.The Reaction of Writers and Artists to the Banning of D. Bednyi's Comic Opera -- Nikolai Leskov -- 7. The Adventures of a Leskov Story in Soviet Russia, or the Socialist Realist Opera That Wasn't -- 8. The Official Denunciation of Shostakovich's ; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District -- Ivan the Terrible -- 9. The Terrible Tsar as Comic Hero: Mikhail Bulgakov's -- 10. Terribly Pragmatic: Rewriting the History of Ivan IV's Reign, 1937-1956 -- 11. Internal Debate within the Party Hierarchy about the Rehabilitation of Ivan the Terrible -- Aleksandr Pushkin -- 12. The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee as Epic Trauma -- 13. Editorial Eulogy of A. S. Pushkin -- 14. The Pushkin Jubilee as Farce -- Aleksandr Nevskii -- 15. The Popular Reception of S. M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii -- 16. Aleksander Nevskii as Russian Patriot -- Ivan Susanin -- 17. Reinventing the Enemy: The Villains of Glinka's Opera -- 18. Official Praise for Ivan Susanin -- Mikhail Lermontov -- 19. Fashioning "Our Lermontov": Canonization and Conflict in the Stalinist 1930s -- 20. A Rare Voice of Caution -- Epilogue -- 21. An Internationalist's Complaint to Stalin and the Ensuing Scandal -- Conclusion: Epic Revisionism and the Crafting of a Soviet Public -- Archival Repository Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Index.