Constructing the Stalinist body
Subtitle: fictional representations of corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s
By: Keith A. Livers.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Ideology and literature; Body, Human, in literature; Mind and body in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stalinism embodied; title: Tuning men into women : Andrei Platonov in the 1930s; title: Mikhail Zoshchenko : engineering the Stalinist body and soul; title: Lev Kassil' : the soccer match as Stalinist ritual; title: Conquering the underworld : the spectacle of the Stalinist metro; title: Stalinist bodies on display.