New myth, new world
Subtitle: from Nietzsche to Stalinism
By: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Influence.; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The seed-time : the russification of Nietzsche, 1890-1917.  Symbolists. Philosophers. Nietzschean marxists. Futurists. Summary : the nietzschean agenda in 1917; title: Nietzsche in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War, 1917-1921. Acpocalypse now : Bolshevik fusions of Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche. Beyond bolshevism : visions of a revolution of the spirit; title: Nietzschean ideas in the period of the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-1927. Concretizing the myth : new cult, new man, new morality. New forms, new language, new politics; title: Echoes of Nietzsche in Stalin's time, 1928-1953. Dionysus unleashed : the cultural revolution and the first five-year plan. "Great politics" Stalin-style. Cultural revolution in the arts and sciences. Art as a lie : Nietzsche and socialist realism. Nietzsche's contributions to the theory of socialist realism. The theory implemented. The lie triumphant : Nietzsche and stalinist political culture. The Stalin cult and its complements. Cultural expressions of the will to power; title: Epilogue : de-stalinization and the reemergence of Nietzsche.