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Petrified utopia : happiness Soviet style / edited by Marina Balina, Evgeny Dobrenko.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 307 pages) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Happiness
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Social aspects
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Happiness
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Political aspects
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Utopias
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Communism and culture
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Social values
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Identity (Psychology)
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Group identity
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Soviet Union
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History
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Congresses
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Soviet Union
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Social life and customs
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Congresses
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Soviet Union
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Social conditions
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Soviet Union
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Intellectual life
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Related name
Balina, Marina
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Dobrenko, E. A. (Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich)
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Conference papers and proceedings
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Getty AAT genre
proceedings (reports)
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Series
Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
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Medium/Support
polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
Summary note
'Petrified Utopia' redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
A joyful Soviet childhood : licensed happiness for little ones / Catriona Kelly
Utopian naturalism : the epic poem of kolkhoz happiness / Evgeny Dobrenko
Luxuriating in lack : plentitude and consuming happiness in Soviet paintings and posters, 1920s-1953 / Helena Goscilo
Tasty and healthy : Soviet happiness in one book / Gian Piero Piretto
"It's grand to be an orphan!" : crafting happy citizens in Soviet children's literature of the 1920s / Marina Balina
Sew yourself Soviet : the pleasures of textile in the machine age / Emma Widdis
Happy housewarming! : moving into Khrushchev-era apartments / Susan E. Reid
When we were happy : remembering Soviet holidays / Albert Baiburin and Alexandra Piir
The 'new Moscow' and the new 'happiness' : architecture as a nodal point in the Stalinist system of value / Katerina Clark
Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow : Tolstoi, Stalin and the Soviet self / Phillip Ross Bullock
'But where is your happiness, Alevtina Ivanovna?' : new debates about happiness in the Soviet films of 1956 / Julian Graffy
Easy on the heart ; or 'Strength through joy' / Maya Turovskaya.
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ISBN
9781843318170 ((electronic bk.))
1843318172 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
742640332
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