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Moscow, the Fourth Rome : Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (431 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062894
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moscow, the Fourth RomeDDC classification:
  • 947/.310842
LOC classification:
  • DK601
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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