Stalin's Soviet Monastery: A New Interpretation of Russian Politics

ISBN-13: 9781433190049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 250 str.

Jim Curtis

Opis

In Stalin's Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology and media theory to develop a holistic analysis of Russian society that includes a theoretically based rationale for ignoring ideology in favor of cultural dynamics.

Spis treści

List of Figures - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - A New Discourse on Method - Searching for Stikhiinost' and Anticipating Doom: Some Continuities in Modern Russian Culture - Three Contextualizing Stalin's Career - Russian Cultural Thematics and the Cults of Lenin and Stalin - Anticipations of Stalinism in Three Major Works by Dostoyevsky - "Reflection" Theory, Monism, and the Literary Jeremiad in Russia - Afterword. What Happened to Stalinism after 1991? - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Jim Curtis received his PhD in Russian from Columbia University and was Professor of Russian at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 31 years. While at the University of Missouri he received numerous teaching awards. He is the author of numerous articles and books.