Beau Monde on Empire's Edge : State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Beau Monde on the Borderlands -- 1 The Russian Imperial Southwest: Theatre in the Age of Modernism and Pogroms -- 2 The Literary Fair: Mikhail Bulgakov and Mykola Kulish -- 3 Comedy Soviet and Ukrainian? Il'f-Petrov and Ostap Vyshnia -- 4 The Official Artist: Solomon Mikhoels and Les' Kurbas -- 5 The Arts Official: Andrii Khvylia, Vsevolod Balyts'kyi, and the Kremlin -- 6 The Soviet Beau Monde: The Gulag and Kremlin Cabaret -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Exploring Ukraine's multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.