Title & Author:

Utopian reality : reconstructing culture in revolutionary Russia and beyond / edited by Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Description:

xxii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Russian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; volume 14

Restrictions:

Restricted to subscribing institutions.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Utopia and dystopia : the impulse of history / Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva -- Dreaming of the city : Mikhail Larionov's Provincial dandy, 1907 / John Milner -- Utopian sex : the metamorphosis of androgynous imagery in Russian art of the pre- and post-revolutionary period / Natalia Budanova -- The Soviet Icarus : from the dream of free flight to the nightmare of free fall / Maria Tsantsanoglou -- Theo van Doesburg and Russia : utopia thwarted / Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita -- Fighting for a utopian childhood : militarism in children's periodicals of the early Soviet Union / Maria Starkova-Vindman -- Spectral geographies in Russian emigre prose : the cases of Petr Krasnov and Georgii Peskov / Muireann Maguire -- Twice removed : Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-Putilovskii / Nicoletta Misler -- Exhibiting Malevich under Stalin / Maria Kokkori -- Solomon Nikritin : the old and the new / John E. Bowlt -- The ghost in the machine : the modernist architectural utopia under Stalin / Christina Lodder -- Socialist realism and stasis / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Utopia in retreat : the closure of the State Museum of New Western Art in 1948 / Maria Mileeva -- The art of cybernetic communism / David Crowley -- Geometry after utopia / Brandon Taylor.

Summary:

This collection of essays deals broadly with the visual and cultural manifestation of utopian aspirations in Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, while examining the before- and after-life of such ideas both geographically and chronologically. The studies document the pluralism of Russian and Soviet culture at this time as well as illuminating various cultural strategies adopted by officialdom. The result serves to complicate the excessively simplistic narrative that avant-garde dreams were suddenly and brutally crushed by Soviet repression and to contest the notion of the avant-garde's complicity in Stalinism. Naturally, some essays document episodes in the defeat and dismantling of utopian projects, but others trace the persistence of avant-garde ideas and the astonishing tenacity of creative individuals who managed to retain their personal integrity while continuing to serve the cause of Soviet power -- Provided by Publisher.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9789004263208 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004263209 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
(e-book)
9789004263222
9004263225

Subject:

Utopias Soviet Union History.
Utopias in literature.
Utopias in art.
Arts, Soviet History.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Soviet Union History.
Cultural pluralism Soviet Union History.
Visual communication Soviet Union History.
Politics and culture Soviet Union History.
Utopies URSS Histoire.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Utopies dans l'art.
Arts soviétiques Histoire.
Diversité culturelle URSS Histoire.
Communication visuelle URSS Histoire.
Politique et culture URSS Histoire.
utopian literature.
Arts, Soviet
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Cultural pluralism
Intellectual life
Politics and government
Politics and culture
Utopias
Visual communication
Kultur
Utopie
Soviet Union Intellectual life 1917-1970.
Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.
URSS Vie intellectuelle 1917-1970.
URSS Politique et gouvernement 1917-1936.
Soviet Union
Russland
Sowjetunion

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Lodder, Christina, 1948- editor.
Kokkori, Maria, editor.
Mileeva, Maria, editor.
Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 14.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286843
Call No.: BIB 227368
Status: Available