Territory and Empire in Early Soviet Poetry
Journal: D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2016

The Soviet state-building project of the 1920s and 1930s faced a number of challenges, among then reconceiving of the vast Eurasian territory and geographic relations seized from the Russian Empire as a new country. This dissertation takes as its goal the description of how civic poets sought to create a coherent sense of imagined community in which geographic and ethnic diversity was organized and enhanced by socialist ideology. As this poetic project developed over two decades, a consistent te