%0 Book
%A Muireann Maguire
%D 2012
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1662-2545
%@ 9783035304060
%T Stalin’s Ghosts
%B Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0406-0
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052486
%X Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.
%K war, vampires, madness, death, propaganda
%G English