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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Series
Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies [More in this series]
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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.
ISBN
  • 9781843318170 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1843318172 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
742640332
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