num_pages: 331
description: Stalins 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 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.
language: None
title: Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften