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Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on
Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early
Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov,
Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche
figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev,
exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle,
the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death.
Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and
Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes
functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by
revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a
subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist
Realism.
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