One of the most creative periods of Russian culture and the most
energized period of the Revolution coincided in the fateful years
1913-1931. During this time both the Party and the intellectuals of
Petersburg strove to transform backward Russia into a nation so
advanced it would shine like a beacon for the rest of the world.
Yet the end result was the Stalinist culture of the 1930s with its
infamous purges.
In this new book, Katerina Clark does not attempt to account
for such a devolution by looking at the broad political arena.
Rather, she follows the quest of intellectuals through these years
to embody the Revolution, a focus that casts new light on the
formation of Stalinism. This revisionist work takes issue with many
existing cultural histories by resisting the temptation to
structure its narrative as a saga of the oppressive regime versus
the benighted intellectuals. In contrast, Clark focuses on the
complex negotiations between the extraordinary environment of a
revolution, the utopian striving of both politicians and
intellectuals, the local culture system, and that broader
environment, the arena of contemporary European and American
culture. In doing so, the author provides a case study in the
ecology of cultural revolution, viewed through the prism of
Petersburg, which on the eve of the Revolution was one of the
cultural capitals of Europe. Petersburg today is in the national
imagination of modern Russia, a symbol of Westernization and
radical change.
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