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Author Brooks, Joan (Translator), author.

Title Greetings, Pushkin! : Stalinist cultural politics and the Russian national bard / Jonathan Brooks Platt.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Series in Russian and East European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Pushkin in the Time of Stalin -- The Russian Bard in the Land of Soviets -- Learning to Live with Pushkin : Pedagogical Texts and Practices -- Pushkin Today : Critical and Scholarly Writing -- Transfixed at the Threshold : Visual Art and Ekphrastic Writing -- History on Horseback : Literature, Drama, and Film -- Conclusion: The Legacy of the Jubilee.
Summary "In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin's death. Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and feverish pitch of the Pushkin festival was unprecedented. Greetings, Pushkin! presents the first in-depth study of this historic event and follows its manifestations in art, literature, popular culture, education, and politics, while also examining its philosophical underpinnings. Jonathan Brooks Platt looks deeply into the motivations behind the Soviet glorification of a long-dead poet--seemingly at odds with the October Revolution's radical break with the past. He views the Pushkin celebration as a conjunction of two opposing approaches to time and modernity: monumentalism, which points to specific moments and individuals as the origin point for cultural narratives, and eschatology, which glorifies ruptures in the chain of art or thought and the destruction of canons. In the midst of the Great Purge, the Pushkin jubilee was a critical element in the drive toward a nationalist discourse that attempted to unify and subsume the disparate elements of the Soviet Union, supporting the move to 'socialism in one country'"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.
Nationalism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Nationalism.
Soviet Union.
History.
Popular culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Popular culture.
Politics and literature -- Soviet Union -- History.
Politics and literature.
Cultural policy -- History.
Cultural policy.
Eschatology -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Eschatology.
Monuments -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Monuments -- Political aspects.
Monuments.
Festivals -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Festivals -- Political aspects.
Festivals.
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1917-1970
Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1936-1953
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Platt, Jonathan Brooks. Greetings, Pushkin!. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016] 9780822964155 0822964155 (DLC) 2016019678 (OCoLC)948176193
ISBN 9780822981428 (electronic book)
0822981424 (electronic book)
9780822964155 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
0822964155