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Vnezhdanovskina: Soviet Post-War Cultural Policy as a Dialogue with an Imaginary West

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Vnezhdanovskina: Soviet Post-War Cultural Policy as a Dialogue with an Imaginary West
14.99 €
The post-war cultural policy of the Soviet authorities, associated with the name of Andrei Zhdanov, has been remembered as a dark time of stagnation and repression. In what context were the ideological campaigns that were later called "Zhdanovism" created? After the war, when the mobilization of the population for the construction and defense of socialism was no longer an urgent task, the state faced the problem of restructuring the socialist realist discourse. In her book, Tatiana Shishkova proposes to look at the events of those years as an attempt to subordinate culture to a new expansionist task - to create and present to the outside world a "correct" image of the USSR. The author analyzes how criticism of M. Zoshchenko, S. Eisenstein, D. Shostakovich and other figures of Zhdanov's decrees was conditioned by the beginning of the Cold War and why the rethinking of relations with the West led to consequences disastrous for the entire Soviet project.
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