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Proletarian Imagination - Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (Hardcover)
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Proletarian Imagination - Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (Hardcover)
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In fin-de-siecle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of
self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in
which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world.
Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on
paper with the nature of civilization and the imperatives of
ethical truth. In a strikingly original approach to Russian
culture, Mark D. Steinberg listens to their words, which are little
known today. The results of their literary creativity, he finds,
were frequently not what the new Soviet order was expecting from
its workers, despite its celebration of the notion of a proletarian
art.Through insightful readings of a vast fund of lower-class
writings, Steinberg shows that the authors focused above all on the
uncertain nature and place of the self, the promise and dangers of
modernity, and the qualities of the sacred in both their lives and
their imaginations. Like their counterparts in the intelligentsia,
these worker writers were ambivalent about Marxist ideology's
celebration of the city and the factory and even about modern
progress itself. Drawing on vast research, Steinberg demonstrates
the texts' significance for an understanding of Russian popular
mentalities, indeed for the very meaning, philosophically and
morally, of these years of crisis and possibility at the end of the
old order and the early years of the Soviet regime."
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