Arrivals and departures -- Artists and models -- Revolutionizing Galatea -- The masking machine -- The sleeping idol -- The procrustean bed -- The Hamlet Gulag
Summary
How, why, and according to whose definitions and requirements does a culture self-consciously create memory and project its fate? In this remarkable book, the first in English to treat Russian history as theatre and cultural performance, Spencer Golub reveals the performative nature of Russian history in the twentieth century and the romantic imprisonment/self-imprisonment of the creative intelligentsia within this scenario
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-262) and index
