Main entry:

Clark, Katerina. author.

Title & Author:

Petersburg, crucible of cultural revolution / Katerina Clark.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1995]
©1995.

Description:

xii, 377 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-363) and index.
Introduction : the ecology of revolution -- Revolution as revelation : the avant-garde -- Imperial Petersburg, 1913 -- Masquerade -- Theater and revolution in the new republic -- Petrograd : ritual capital of revolutionary Russia -- NEP and the "art of capulation" -- Revolutionary culture meets the jazz age -- The establishment of Soviet culture -- Promethean linguistics -- Straight talk and the campaign against Wagner -- The sacralization of everyday life -- The ultimate cultural revolution -- Epilogue : the thirties.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"One of the most creative periods of Russian culture and the most energized period of the Revolution coincided in the fateful years 1913-1931. During this time both the Party and the intellectuals of Petersburg strove to transform backward Russia. Yet the end result was the Stalinist culture of the 1930s with its purges. Katerina Clark focuses on the complex negotiations among the extraordinary environment of a revolution, the utopian striving of both politicians and intellectuals, the local culture system, and that broader environment, the arena of contemporary European and American culture."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0674663357 (alk. paper)
9780674663350 (alk. paper)
0674663365 (pbk.)
9780674663367 (pbk.)

Subject:

Compagnie Rêvolution
Intellectual life.
Intellektueller
Kultur
Kulturpolitik
Kulturwandel
Kunst
Cultuur.
História da rússia (século 20)
Cultura Rússia.
Revolução russa.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) Intellectual life 20th century.
Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) Vie intellectuelle
Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg.
Dom Muruzi
Saint Petersburg (Russia) Intellectual life.
Culture Related to Politics
St. Petersburg

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116208
Call No.: ID DK557.C57; ID:96-B2989
Status: Available