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Greetings, Pushkin! - Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard (Paperback)
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Greetings, Pushkin! - Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard (Paperback)
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration
commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin's death.
Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and
feverish pitch of the Pushkin festival was unprecedented.
Greetings, Pushkin! presents the first in-depth study of this
historic event and follows its manifestations in art, literature,
popular culture, education, and politics, while also examining its
philosophical underpinnings. Jonathan Brooks Platt looks deeply
into the motivations behind the Soviet glorification of a long-dead
poet-seemingly at odds with the October Revolution's radical break
with the past. He views the Pushkin celebration as a conjunction of
two opposing approaches to time and modernity: monumentalism, which
points to specific moments and individuals as the origin point for
cultural narratives, and eschatology, which glorifies ruptures in
the chain of art or thought and the destruction of canons. In the
midst of the Great Purge, the Pushkin jubilee was a critical
element in the drive toward a nationalist discourse that attempted
to unify and subsume the disparate elements of the Soviet Union,
supporting the move to "socialism in one country."
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