The Cultural Front : : Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia /

The Cultural Front : : Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia / / Sheila Fitzpatrick.

When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in the name of the proletariat to wrest "cultural hegemony" from the intelligentsia, they turned culture int...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Fitzpatrick, Sheila,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1992
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies in Soviet history and society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Spelling
  • Glossary
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction: On Power and Culture
  • CHAPTER 2. The Bolsheviks' Dilemma: The Class Issue in Party Politics and Culture
  • CHAPTER 3. Professors and Soviet Power
  • CHAPTER 4. Sex and Revolution
  • CHAPTER 5. The Soft Line on Culture and Its Enemies
  • CHAPTER 6. Cultural Revolution as Class War
  • CHAPTER 7. Stalin and the Making of a New Elite
  • CHAPTER 8. The Lady Macbeth Affair: Shostakovich and the Soviet Puritans
  • CHAPTER 9. Becoming Cultured: Socialist Realism and the Representation of Privilege and Taste
  • CHAPTER 10. Cultural Orthodoxies under Stalin
  • Index

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