Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925

In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on paper with the nature of civilization and...

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Beteilige Person: Steinberg, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Russisch
Veröffentlicht: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press [2022]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699829
Zusammenfassung:In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on paper with the nature of civilization and the imperatives of ethical truth. In a strikingly original approach to Russian culture, Mark D. Steinberg listens to their words, which are little known today. The results of their literary creativity, he finds, were frequently not what the new Soviet order was expecting from its workers, despite its celebration of the notion of a proletarian art
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ISBN:9781644699829
DOI:10.1515/9781644699829