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For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Socialist Realism to "prettify reality"; rather, Socialist Realism itself produced socialism by elevating socialism to reality status, giving it material form. Without art, socialism could not have materialized. Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art-novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture, and advertising-Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism. Socialist Realism, he concludes, was Stalinism's most effective sociopolitical institution.
In Soviet culture, the reader was never a "consumer of books" in
the Western sense. According to the aesthetic doctrine at the heart
of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be
reforged and molded. Because of this, Soviet culture cannot be
examined properly without taking into account the reading masses.
This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet
literature, a history of the "State appropriation of the reader."
This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the
literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in "The Making of the
State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of
Soviet Literature" (Stanford, 1997). The history of the literary
process of the Soviet era, understood as the living process of the
clash of political and ideological aspirations and the interests
and psychology of cultural elites, allows one to understand the
social origins and cultural aims of Stalinist art in an entirely
new way.
How the last years of Stalin's rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period-beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953-Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.
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