Stalin Era Intellectuals
Culture and Stalinism
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-032-11421-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era. The authors question how we should consider certain intellectual achievements which took place despite the pressure of Stalinism, and how best to recognise and describe such achievements. The chapters in this book offer suggestions for new interpretations on Soviet philosophy of science and humanities, linguistics, philosophy, musicology, literature and mathematics from the point of view of general cultural theory. In this way, they challenge the received image of the Stalin-era humanities which reduces them into mere propaganda. Intended for scholars of Russian and Soviet studies, this book will dispel many received views about the character of Stalinism and Soviet culture.
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
439 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-11421-7 (9781032114217)
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Persons
Vesa Oittinen is a professor emeritus of Russian philosophy and intellectual history at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). His publications focus on the history of philosophy, especially Spinoza, German classical philosophy and Marxism, and on Russian and Soviet philosophy.
Elina Viljanen is a post-doctoral scholar at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). Holding a PhD in musicology, she specialises in Russian intellectual history of music and Soviet culture.
Elina Viljanen is a post-doctoral scholar at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). Holding a PhD in musicology, she specialises in Russian intellectual history of music and Soviet culture.
Content
1 Introduction: On Soviet Intellectual Culture during the Stalin Era 2 Fighting Avant-Garde with Phenomenology: Gustav Shpet's 'New Realism' 3 Stalin and Philosophy in Soviet Russia 4 'Menshevising Idealism' and Stalinisation of Philosophy 5 The Naked Truth of Fact: Andrey Platonov on the Margins of Factography 6 Everyday Symphonism: Boris Asafiev's Soviet Theory of Popular Music 7 Confronting Modernism in the Stalin Era: Mikhail Lifshits as Critic and Philosopher of Culture 8 Maxim Gorky as Spokesman for Proletarian Humanism 9 Sofya Yanovskaya in Defence of Abstractions: Between Soviet Ideology and Bourgeois Idealism 10 The Anti-Fascist Cultural Theory of Nikolai Bukharin and the Concept of Socialist Humanism 11 Nikolay Marr's Theory of Language and Konstantin Megrelidze's Historical Science of Thought 12 Between Critique and Conformism: The Languages and Cultures of Caste and Nation in Stalin-Era Indology 13 Stalinism, War, and Artistic Representation of Reality: Konstantin Simonov's Critique of the 'System of Silence' in 1956