How the Soviet man was unmade: cultural fantasy and male subjectivity under Stalin
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Beteilige Person: Kaganovsky, Lilya (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Series in Russian and East European studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index
Introduction: "Bodies that matter" -- How the Soviet man was (un)made -- Visual pleasure in Stalinist cinema -- Heterosexual panic -- What does woman want? -- Epilogue: "Female masculinity."
In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath the surface of this fantasy, between the lines of texts and in film, lurked another figure: the wounded body of the heroic invalid, the second version of Stalin's New Man. In How the Soviet Man Was Unmade, Lilya Kaganovsky exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. In her analysis of
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 226 pages)
ISBN:082297343X
9780822973430