Sex in public : the incarnation of early Soviet ideology
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Sex in public : the incarnation of early Soviet ideology
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1999
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Originally published: c1997
Includes index
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Description
"Sex in Public" examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of sources - Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular science - the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupation with crime, disease, and, especially, sex. Using strategies of reading developed by literary scholars, he devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts. The book breaks new ground in its attention to the ideological importance of the female body during this important formative stage of Bolshevik rule. "Sex in Public" provides a fundamentally new history of the New Economic Policy and offers important revisionist readings of many of the fundamental cultural products of the early Soviet period.
Perhaps most important, it serves as a model for the sort of interdisciplinary work that is possible when historians take literary and ideology theory seriously and when ideology theorists seek to conform to the standards of documentary rigor traditionally demanded by historians. It thus becomes a study that can be read as both positivistic and postmodern.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration, Citation, and Translation xi INTRODUCTION 3 Menstruation and a New Pair of Glasses 3 Approaching NEP: Ideological Anxieties and the "Unarmed Eye" 5 Utopia and Its Infections 12 Sacrificing Culture / Reading Ideology 16 Things to Come 25 CHAPTER ONE The Creation of the Collective Body 27 Utopia, Misogyny, and the Russian Philosophical Tradition 27 The Signification of Sex 45 Fantasies of the War Communist Body 57 CHAPTER TWO "Let Them Penetrate!": Strategies against Dismemberment 79 CHAPTER THREE The Discourse of Castration 124 CHAPTER FOUR Behind the Red Door: An Introduction to NEP Gothic 148 CHAPTER FIVE NEP as Female Complaint (I): The Tragedy of Woman 181 CHAPTER SIX NEP as Female Complaint (II): Revolutionary Anorexia 208 CHAPTER SEVEN The Case of Chubarov Alley: Collective Rape and Utopian Desire 250 The "Facts" of the Case 250 The Corruption of the Innocent 257 The Corruption of the Experienced 263 Ideological Resonance 266 CONCLUSION 289 Index 301
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