Stalin'S Ghosts: Gothic Themes In Early Soviet Literature
Peter Lang
ISBN13:
9781803742205
$99.93
Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.
- | Author: Muireann Maguire
- | Publisher: Peter Lang
- | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 344 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1803742208
- | ISBN-13: 9781803742205
- Author:
- Muireann Maguire
- Publisher:
- Peter Lang
- Publication Date:
- Apr 28, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 344 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1803742208
- ISBN-13:
- 9781803742205