Moscow, the Fourth Rome : : Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941 / / Katerina Clark.

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• VerfasserIn: Clark, Katerina,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 4 halftones

In the early sixteenth century, the 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. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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