Stalin's Ghosts : Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature

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by Muireann Maguire

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas

ISBN-10 303430787X

ISBN-13 9783034307871

Edition New

Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 28th, 2012

Print length 331 Pages

Weight 488 grams

Dimensions 22.70 x 15.10 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ELT background & reference material

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Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume shows how Soviet authors drew on the traditional archetypes of the genre, such as the castle, the body, vampires, ghosts, villains, madness, and unnatural death, presenting a revisionist challenge to the view of Soviet literature as strictly rational.

Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.

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