LEADER 04284nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910973297003321 005 20240418054728.0 010 $a9780299292935 010 $a0299292932 035 $a(CKB)2550000001107274 035 $a(OCoLC)852160116 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10729506 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950903 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12406180 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950903 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10881541 035 $a(PQKB)10301885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445344 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25294 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445344 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10729506 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL504328 035 $a(Perlego)4386125 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001107274 100 $a20120910d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrue songs of freedom $eUncle Tom's cabin in Russian culture and society /$fJohn MacKay 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (174 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299292942 311 08$a0299292940 311 08$a9781299730779 311 08$a1299730779 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Historical Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Before Emancipation -- 2. After Serfdom, before October -- 3. The Early Soviet Period (to 1945) -- 4. Uncle Tom, Cold Warrior -- Coda: Tom, Meet Scarlett -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Summary of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 8 $aHarriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the nineteenth century's best-selling novel worldwide; only the Bible outsold it. It was known not only as a book but through stage productions, films, music, and commercial advertising as well. But how was Stowe's novel-one of the watershed works of world literature-actually received outside of the American context? True Songs of Freedom explores one vital sphere of Stowe's influence: Russia and the Soviet Union, from the 1850s to the present day. Due to Russia's own tradition of rural slavery, the vexed entwining of authoritarianism and political radicalism throughout its history, and (especially after 1945) its prominence as the superpower rival of the United States, Russia developed a special relationship to Stowe's novel during this period of rapid societal change. Uncle Tom's Cabin prompted widespread reflections on the relationship of Russian serfdom to American slavery, on the issue of race in the United States and at home, on the kinds of writing appropriate for children and peasants learning to read, on the political function of writing, and on the values of Russian educated elites who promoted, discussed, and fought over the book for more than a century. By the time of the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Stowe's novel was probably better known by Russians than by readers in any other country. John MacKay examines many translations and rewritings of Stowe's novel; plays, illustrations, and films based upon it; and a wide range of reactions to it by figures famous (Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Marina Tsvetaeva) and unknown. In tracking the reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin across 150 years, he engages with debates over serf emancipation and peasant education, early Soviet efforts to adapt Stowe's deeply religious work of protest to an atheistic revolutionary value system, the novel's exploitation during the years of Stalinist despotism, Cold War anti-Americanism and antiracism, and the postsocialist consumerist ethos. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life$y1801-1917 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aSoviet Union$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.3 700 $aMacKay$b John$g(John Kenneth)$0818939 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973297003321 996 $aTrue songs of freedom$94355193 997 $aUNINA