| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
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Series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Bodies that matter" -- How the Soviet man was (un)made -- Visual pleasure in Stalinist cinema -- Heterosexual panic -- What does woman want? -- Epilogue: "Female masculinity." |
| Summary |
In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath the surface of this fantasy, between the lines of texts and in film, lurked another figure: the wounded body of the heroic invalid, the second version of Stalin's New Man. In How the Soviet Man Was Unmade, Lilya Kaganovsky exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. In her analysis of. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. |
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Masculinity in motion pictures.
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Masculinity in motion pictures. |
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Men in literature.
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Men in literature. |
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Men in motion pictures.
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Men in motion pictures. |
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Socialist realism in literature.
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Socialist realism in literature. |
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Socialist realism in motion pictures.
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Socialist realism in motion pictures. |
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Socialist realism -- Soviet Union.
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Socialist realism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaganovsky, Lilya. How the Soviet man was unmade. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008015490 (OCoLC)184822173 |
| ISBN |
9780822973430 electronic book |
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082297343X electronic book |
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9780822943211 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822943212 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780822959939 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822959933 paperback alkaline paper |
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