04106nam 2200697 a 450 991081593000332120240418052617.01-282-27005-297866122700550-299-21503-2(CKB)1000000000485740(SSID)ssj0000148660(PQKBManifestationID)11150106(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148660(PQKBWorkID)10224353(PQKB)11010025(MiAaPQ)EBC3444748(OCoLC)223399897(MdBmJHUP)muse12228(Au-PeEL)EBL3444748(CaPaEBR)ebr10221950(CaONFJC)MIL227005(EXLCZ)99100000000048574020050418d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEpic revisionism[electronic resource] Russian history and literature as Stalinist propaganda /Kevin M.F. Platt and David Brandenberger, editors1st ed.Madison University of Wisconsin Pressc2006xvi, 355 p. illIncludes bibliographical references and index.0-299-21504-0 0-299-21500-8 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.Popular culturePolitical aspectsSoviet UnionRussian literatureHistory and criticismHistory in literaturePropaganda, SovietHistory20th centuryRussian literaturePolitical aspectsCommunism and literatureIdeology and literaturePopular culturePolitical aspectsRussian literatureHistory and criticism.History in literature.Propaganda, SovietHistoryRussian literaturePolitical aspects.Communism and literature.Ideology and literature.891.709/358Platt Kevin M. F.1967-1700515Brandenberger David500910MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815930003321Epic revisionism4083567UNINA