Soviet culture and power : a history in documents, 1917-1953
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Soviet culture and power : a history in documents, 1917-1953
(Annals of communism)
Yale University Press, c2007
- : cloth
- Other Title
-
Vlast' i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia : dokumenty TsK RKP(b)--VKP(b), VChK--OGPU--NKVD o kul'turnoi politike, 1917-1953 gg.
Власть и художественная интеллигенция : документы ЦК РКП(б)-ВКП(б), ВЧК-ОГПУ-НКВД о культурной политике, 1917-1953 гг.
Available at / 13 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
This book is based on selections from a book of documents compiled by Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov, published by Mezhdunarodny fond demokratia in Moscow (1999) as Vlast' i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsiia : dokumenty TsK RKP(b)--VKP(b), VChK--OGPU--NKVD o kul'turnoi politike, 1917-1953 gg.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A history of Soviet repression of cultural and artistic life, based on remarkable archival documents never published in English before
Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and directit in every way possible. This book examines Soviet cultural politics from the Revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. Drawing on a wealth of newly released documents from the archives of the former Soviet Union, the book provides remarkable insight on relations between Gorky, Pasternak, Babel, Meyerhold, Shostakovich, Eisenstein, and many other intellectuals, and the Soviet leadership. Stalin's role in directing these relations, and his literary judgments and personal biases, will astonish many. The documents presented in this volume reflect the progression of Party control in the arts. They include decisions of the Politburo, Stalin's correspondence with individual intellectuals, his responses to particular plays, novels, and movie scripts, petitions to leaders from intellectuals, and secret police reports on intellectuals under surveillance. Introductions, explanatory materials, and a biographical index accompany the documents.
by "Nielsen BookData"