Research Catalog

Title

Petrified utopia : happiness Soviet style / edited by Marina Balina, Evgeny Dobrenko.

Publication

London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Balina, Marina.
• Dobrenko, E. A. (Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich)

Description

xxiv, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies

Uniform Title

Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies.

Subject

• Happiness > Social aspects > History > Soviet Union > Congresses
• Happiness > Political aspects > History > Soviet Union > Congresses
• Utopias > Soviet Union > History > Congresses
• Communism and culture > Soviet Union > History > Congresses
• Social values > Soviet Union > History > Congresses
• Identity (Psychology) > Soviet Union > History > Congresses
• Group identity > Soviet Union > History > Congresses
• Soviet Union > Social life and customs > Congresses
• Soviet Union > Social conditions > Congresses
• Soviet Union > Intellectual life > Congresses

Note

• "This project originated from the conference 'Happiness Soviet style' in May of 2006, which took place at the University of Nottingham"--P. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A joyful Soviet childhood : licensed happiness for little ones / Catriona Kelly -- Utopian naturalism : the epic poem of kolkhoz happiness / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Luxuriating in lack : plentitude and consuming happiness in Soviet paintings and posters, 1920s-1953 / Helena Goscilo -- Tasty and healthy : Soviet happiness in one book / Gian Piero Piretto -- "It's grand to be an orphan!" : crafting happy citizens in Soviet children's literature of the 1920s / Marina Balina -- Sew yourself Soviet : the pleasures of textile in the machine age / Emma Widdis -- Happy housewarming! : moving into Khrushchev-era apartments / Susan E. Reid -- When we were happy : remembering Soviet holidays / Albert Baiburin and Alexandra Piir -- The 'new Moscow' and the new 'happiness' : architecture as a nodal point in the Stalinist system of value / Katerina Clark -- Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow : Tolstoi, Stalin and the Soviet self / Phillip Ross Bullock -- 'But where is your happiness, Alevtina Ivanovna?' : new debates about happiness in the Soviet films of 1956 / Julian Graffy -- Easy on the heart ; or 'Strength through joy' / Maya Turovskaya.

ISBN

• 9781843313106 (hbk.)
• 1843313103 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2009018737

OCLC

• 320805003
• SCSB-11229609

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library