Main entry:

Clark, Katerina.

Title & Author:

Moscow, the fourth Rome : Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941 / Katerina Clark.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-407) and index.
The author as producer: cultural revolution in Berlin and Moscow (1930-1931) -- Moscow, the lettered city -- The return of the aesthetic -- The traveling mode and the horizon of identity -- "World literature"/"World culture" and the era of the popular front (c. 1935-1936) -- Face and mask: theatricality and identity in the era of the show trials (1936-1938) -- Love and death in the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) -- The Imperial sublime -- The battle of the genres (1937-1941).

Summary:

"In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the 'Third Rome.' By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today--transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome broadens the framework that has traditionally constrained cultural histories of Stalinist Russia to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780674057876
0674057872

Subject:

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 Influence.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 Studies.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Cosmopolitanism Russia (Federation) Moscow History.
Popular culture Russia (Federation) Moscow History.
Communism Russia (Federation) Moscow History.
Social change Russia (Federation) Moscow History.
Social change Soviet Union History.
Cosmopolitisme Russie Moscou Histoire.
Culture populaire Russie Moscou Histoire.
History.
Communism
Cosmopolitanism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Popular culture
Social change
Kultur
Weltbürgertum
Sovjetunionen intellektuellt liv 1930-talet.
Moscow (Russia) History 20th century.
Moscow (Russia) Intellectual life 20th century.
Soviet Union History 1925-1953.
Soviet Union Intellectual life 1917-1970.
Moscou (Russie) Histoire 20e siècle.
URSS Histoire 1925-1953.
URSS Vie intellectuelle 1917-1970.
Russia (Federation) Moscow
Soviet Union

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275503
Call No.: BIB 209769
Status: Available