Title Moscow, the fourth Rome : Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941 / Katerina Clark

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 420 pages) Contents The author as producer: cultural revolution in Berlin and Moscow (1930-1931) -- Moscow, the lettered city -- The return of the aesthetic -- The traveling mode and the horizon of identity -- "World literature"/"World culture" and the era of the popular front (c. 1935-1936) -- Face and mask: theatricality and identity in the era of the show trials (1936-1938) -- Love and death in the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) -- The Imperial sublime -- The battle of the genres (1937-1941) Summary In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today--transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin The sixteenth-century monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals sought to establish their capital as the Fourth Rome--a cosmopolitan post-Christian beacon for the rest of the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-407) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Influence SUBJECT Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast Subject Cosmopolitanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History Popular culture -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History Communism -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History Social change -- Soviet Union -- History HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics. HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Communism Cosmopolitanism Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Popular culture Social change Sovjetunionen -- intellektuellt liv -- 1930-talet. SUBJECT Moscow (Russia) -- History -- 20th century Moscow (Russia) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814 Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125826 Subject Russia (Federation) -- Moscow Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674062894 0674062892

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