...Paul Debreczeny Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Paul Debreczeny Zhitie Aleksandra Boldinskogo Pushkin s Elevation to Sainthood in Soviet Culture Rvel Ivanovich Melnikov-Pecherskii, the fu­ ture writer, was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Kazan in 1837...

..., another worker wrote: With the approach of evening, the guys start bawling out songs and whistling. The young men from the country, like the workers, go to the pubs. 8 Clearly, the guys weren t interested in opera. The traditional model for describing Soviet culture, one which was current in both...

... terms of a Russian Mowgli, rising from nature to Soviet imperial culture. Julia Hell s search for sub­ Introduction 659 lime post-fascist bodies in the East German novel of arrival opens the great family one of the paradigmatic features of the master plot of socialist realist literature to a new...

... in NineteenthCentury Russia (1982) and On Synthetism, Mathematics and Other Matters: Zamiatin s Novel We (1994), coauthored by Edna Andrews and Elena Maksimova (in Russian). He is also the editor of Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika (1993) and coeditor (with Veronique Garros and Natalia Korenevskaya...

... were told that they should abandon dreams of a special cultural status 434 The South Atlantic Quarterly in Soviet Russia and should assimilate along with the other peoples of the U.S.S.R. The Children s Theater is the subject of Gene Sosin s essay. At first experimental, the Children s Theater...

.... As their status of patent secondarity in this system is distin­ guished from the primacy of the literary arts, their own nature has allowed them regularly to escape Western research on Soviet culture, except of their accessory imagery. This is the case in particular with the visual practices of the Zhdanov period...

... effect on contemporary culture; postcolonial, postnational, and com- parative studies; the post-Soviet cultural imaginary; and transcultural sub- jectivity and aesthetics. Tlostanova has authored two books in Russian and two in English; the two most recent are Post-Soviet Literature and the Trans...

... of the Zhdanov period.10 Through a detailed analysis of the various levels of the chain of cultural practices (production per se, circulation, and reception), including a large-scale survey of Soviet cultural institu­ tions, Heller and Baudin arrive at the conclusion that Soviet culture during the late 1940s...

... Soviet culture Marxism References Arendt Hannah . 1990 . On Revolution . London : Penguin Books . Balibar Étienne . 2011 . “ Le moment messianique de Marx” (“The Messianic Moment in Marx”) . In Citoyen sujet et autres essais d’anthropologie philosophique (Citizen Subject...

... of the partici­ pants of a Round Table in the Soviet Literary Gazette of 5 May 1988, fifty-four years almost to the day after its official definition, social­ ist realism is also a cultural phoenix that keeps on rising from its ashes. And in our times it has become almost fashionable: at least, to paraphrase...

... a world literature. Paradoxically, Soviet Russia is attempting today to deny Marx on this point. The entire Soviet press and indeed that country s whole administration is now engaged in a campaign aimed at tearing out the roots of cos­ mopolitanism and at exalting Russian cultural values to the ex­...

... literature. He is presently working on a project on Soviet culture of the Zhdanov period. h. frederik nijhout is Professor of Zoology at Duke University. He is a developmental biologist who is interested in the processes that give rise to biological form, and is the author of The Development and Evolution...

...Thomas Lahusen Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Thomas Lahusen The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People Hiding in nostalgia for a recent past, speak­ ing from spaces and cultures that no longer exist, Tadeusz Konwicki s or Andrzej Wajda s exegesis...

... at a Second-Rate University 449 Calder, Jeff, Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock & Roll Band 907 Coleman, Rosalind A., Anatomy Lessons: The Destiny of a Textbook, 1971-72 153 Debreczeny, Paul, Zhitie Aleksandra Boldinskogo": Pushkin s Elevation to Sainthood in Soviet...

... as interpretations of The South Atlantic Quarterly 94:3, Summer 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press. CCC 0038-2876/9550. 688 Leonid Heller the phenomenon of Soviet aesthetics and, as a rule, of Soviet culture as a whole/ Ultimately, the most frequent and self-evident approach is an analysis...

... and the legacy of Zhdanovite socialist realism. What makes the Russian (Soviet?) ex­ perience of modernization from 1917 through the present day that much more striking is that the violence of mobilization has proved so intimately linked to utopian thought. In the absence of effec­ tive mechanisms...

... rallies that followed. Chehonadskih, working as a theorist and critic in the field of contempo- rary art, cofounded the Union of Cultural Workers in May 2011, which for the first time raised the question of precarity and drew attention to the urgency of self-organization in the post-Soviet...

...Svetlana Boym Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Svetlana Boym Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin s Fairy Tale to Molotov s Lacquer Box In the last years of the Soviet Union a Mos­ cow journalist observed: The unique Rus­ sian character is shaped by Russian bread lines...

... ( estrangement or defamiliariza­ tion ) and, by extension, left-wing Soviet cultural practice, but his use of aesthetic theory to promote a collective political audience also reflects a rich German heritage. And, while he frequently presented empathy and estrangement as opposing concepts, empathy is, properly...

... and Leon Goure s Two Studies in Soviet Controls: I. Communism and the Russian Peasant. II. Moscow in Crisis. In the author s note mention is made of the profitable associa­ tion between an individual author (Mr. Dinerstein) and several group study projects: Studies in Soviet Culture, a research group...