Mass Culture in Soviet Russia Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953

Name: Mass Culture in Soviet Russia Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953
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ISBN: 9780253209696

ISBN-10: 0253209692

ISBN-13: 9780253209696

Edition: 1995

Authors: James Von Geldern, Richard Stites, James Von Geldern

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This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture that flourished beneath the surface are represented. The focus is on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses. The period covered encompasses the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the mixed economy and culture of the 1920s, the tightly controlled Stalinist 1930s, the looser atmosphere of the Great Patriotic…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English