Stalin’s Ghosts
Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
©2023
Monographie
XII,
332 Seiten
Zusammenfassung
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.
Details
- Seiten
- XII, 332
- Jahr
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803742212
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803742229
- ISBN (Paperback)
- 9781803742205
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20895
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023 (Mai)
- Erschienen
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2023. XII, 332 pp.