Moscow, the Fourth Rome : Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (431 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Cultural Turn -- Chapter 1. The Author as Producer: Cultural Revolution in Berlin and Moscow (1930-1931) -- Chapter 2. Moscow, the Lettered City -- Chapter 3. The Return of the Aesthetic -- Chapter 4. The Traveling Mode and the Horizon of Identity -- Chapter 5. "World Literature"/ "World Culture" and the Era of the Popular Front (c. 1935-1936) -- Chapter 6. Face and Mask: Theatricality and Identity in the Era of the Show Trials (1936-1938) -- Chapter 7. Love and Death in the Time of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) -- Chapter 8. The Imperial Sublime -- Chapter 9. The Battle over the Genres (1937-1941) -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
The sixteenth-century monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals sought to establish their capital as the Fourth Rome--a cosmopolitan post-Christian beacon for the rest of the world.
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