Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism

ISBN-13: 9781032114200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str.

Finlan Aleksanteri Institute Elina (University of Helsinki

Opis

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: On Soviet Intellectual Culture during the Stalin Era  2 Fighting Avant-Garde with Phenomenology: Gustav Shpet’s ‘New Realism’  3 Stalin and Philosophy in Soviet Russia  4 ‘Menshevising Idealism’ and Stalinisation of Philosophy  5 The Naked Truth of Fact: Andrey Platonov on the Margins of Factography  6 Everyday Symphonism: Boris Asafiev’s Soviet Theory of Popular Music  7 Confronting Modernism in the Stalin Era: Mikhail Lifshits as Critic and Philosopher of Culture  8 Maxim Gorky as Spokesman for Proletarian Humanism  9 Sofya Yanovskaya in Defence of Abstractions: Between Soviet Ideology and Bourgeois Idealism  10 The Anti-Fascist Cultural Theory of Nikolai Bukharin and the Concept of Socialist Humanism 11 Nikolay Marr’s  Theory of Language and Konstantin Megrelidze’s Historical Science of Thought  12 Between Critique and Conformism: The Languages and Cultures of Caste and Nation in Stalin-Era Indology  13 Stalinism, War, and Artistic Representation of Reality: Konstantin Simonov’s Critique of the ‘System of Silence’ in 1956