Epic revisionism
Subtitle: Russian history and literature as Stalinist propaganda
By: Kevin M.F. Platt and David Brandenberger, editors.
Contributors: Platt, Kevin M. F., 1967-; Brandenberger, David.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Subjects: Russian literature -- History and criticism.; Popular culture -- Soviet Union -- Political aspects.; History in literature.; Propaganda, Soviet -- History -- 20th century.; Russian literature -- Political aspects.; Communism and literature.; Ideology and literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Tolstoi in 1928 : in the mirror of the revolution / William Nickell; title: Do we know how to celebrate jubilees? / Novus, from Chitatel' i pisatel', 7 November 1928; title: Rehabilitation and afterimage : Aleksei Tolstoi's many returns to Peter the Great / Kevin M.F. Platt; title: Aleksei Tolstoi's remarks on the film Peter I / A. Danat, from Skorokhodovskii rabochii, 15 September 1937; title: Chronicle of a poet's downfall : Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian history and the epic heroes / A.M. Dubrovsky; title: The reaction of writers and artists to the banning of D. Bednyi's play / NKVD report, 1936; title: The adventures of a Leskov story in Soviet Russia, or, the socialist realist opera that wasn't / Andrew Wachtel; title: Muddle instead of music / [P.M. Kerzhentsev], from Pravda, 28 January 1936; title: The terrible tsar as comic hero : Mikhail Bulgakov's "Ivan Vasil'evich" / Maureen Perrie; title: Terrible pragmatic : rewriting the history of Ivan IV's reign / David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt; title: Memorandum to Stalin concerning A.N. Tolstoi's play "Ivan the Terrible" / A.S. Shcherbakov, 1941-1943; title: The 1937 Pushkin jubilee as epic trauma / Stephanie Sandler; title: Glory to the Russian people / Editorial, from Pravda, 10 February 1937; title: During the Pushkin days / Mikhail Zoshchenko, from Krokodil 3, 5 (1937); title: The popular reception of S.M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii / David Brandenberger; title: An epic hero-people / Mikhail Kol'tsov, from Pravda, 7 November 1938; title: Reinventing the enemy : the villains of Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet stage / Susan Beam Eggers; title: Ivan Susanin on the stage of the Bolshoi theater / B. Mordvinov, from Literaturnaia gazeta, 15 November 1939; title: Fashioning 'our Lermontov' : canonization and conflict in the Stalinist 1930s / David Powelstock; title: In the poet's defense / A. Ragozin, from Pravda, 25 August 1939; title: An internationalist's complaint to Stalin / V.I. Blium, 31 January 1939.