TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muireann Maguire
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-2545
SN  - 9783035304060
TI  - Stalin’s Ghosts
T2  - Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0406-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052486
N2  - 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.
KW  - war, vampires, madness, death, propaganda
LA  - English
ER  -