Description
Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.
Author: Muireann Maguire
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: 04/28/2023
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781803742205
ISBN10: 1803742208
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet)
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
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