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Epic revisionism : Russian history and literature as Stalinist propaganda

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Epic revisionism : Russian history and literature as Stalinist propaganda / Kevin M.F. Platt and David Brandenberger, editors.

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Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

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xvi, 355 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Contents

Tolstoi in 1928 : in the mirror of the revolution / William Nickell -- Do we know how to celebrate jubilees? / Novus, from Chitatel' i pisatel', 7 November 1928 -- Rehabilitation and afterimage : Aleksei Tolstoi's many returns to Peter the Great / Kevin M.F. Platt -- Aleksei Tolstoi's remarks on the film Peter I / A. Danat, from Skorokhodovskii rabochii, 15 September 1937 -- Chronicle of a poet's downfall : Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian history and the epic heroes / A.M. Dubrovsky -- The reaction of writers and artists to the banning of D. Bednyi's play / NKVD report, 1936 -- The adventures of a Leskov story in Soviet Russia, or, the socialist realist opera that wasn't / Andrew Wachtel -- Muddle instead of music / [P.M. Kerzhentsev], from Pravda, 28 January 1936 -- The terrible tsar as comic hero : Mikhail Bulgakov's "Ivan Vasil'evich" / Maureen Perrie -- Terrible pragmatic : rewriting the history of Ivan IV's reign / David Brandenberger and Kevin M.F. Platt -- Memorandum to Stalin concerning A.N. Tolstoi's play "Ivan the Terrible" / A.S. Shcherbakov, 1941-1943 -- The 1937 Pushkin jubilee as epic trauma / Stephanie Sandler -- Glory to the Russian people / Editorial, from Pravda, 10 February 1937 -- During the Pushkin days / Mikhail Zoshchenko, from Krokodil 3, 5 (1937) -- The popular reception of S.M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii / David Brandenberger -- An epic hero-people / Mikhail Kol'tsov, from Pravda, 7 November 1938 -- Reinventing the enemy : the villains of Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet stage / Susan Beam Eggers -- Ivan Susanin on the stage of the Bolshoi theater / B. Mordvinov, from Literaturnaia gazeta, 15 November 1939 -- Fashioning 'our Lermontov' : canonization and conflict in the Stalinist 1930s / David Powelstock -- In the poet's defense / A. Ragozin, from Pravda, 25 August 1939 -- An internationalist's complaint to Stalin / V.I. Blium, 31 January 1939.

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