Petrified utopia
Subtitle: happiness Soviet-style
By: edited by Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko.
Contributors: Balina, Marina.; Dobrenko, E. A.
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843313106
Subjects: Happiness -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Happiness -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Utopias -- Soviet Union -- History; Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History; Social values -- Soviet Union -- History; Identity (Psychology) -- Soviet Union -- History; Group identity -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Social life and customs; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life
Table of contents: title: A joyful Soviet childhood : licensed happiness for little ones / Catriona Kelly; title: Utopian naturalism : the epic poem of kolkhoz happiness / Evgeny Dobrenko; title: Luxuriating in lack : plentitude and consuming in Soviet paintings and posters, 1920s-1953 / Helena Goscilo; title: Tasty and healthy : Soviet happiness in one book / Gian Piero Piretto; title: "It's grand to be an orphan!" : crafting happy citizens in Soviet children's literature of the 1920s / Marina Balina; title: Sew yourself Soviet : the pleasures of textile in the machine age / Emma Widdis; title: Happy housewarming : moving into Khrushchev-era apartments / Susan E. Reid; title: "When we were happy" : remembering Soviet holidays / Albert Baiburin and Alexandra Piir; title: The "new Moscow" and the new "happiness" : architecture as a nodal point in the Stalinist system of values / Katerina Clark; title: Andrei Platonov's happy Moscow : Tolstoi, Stalin, and the Soviet self / Phillip Ross Bullock; title: "But where is your happiness, Alevtina Ivanovna? : new debates about happiness in the Soviet films of 1956 / Julian Graffy; title: Easy on the heart; or, "Strength through joy" / Maya Turovskaya.