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Late Stalinism: Aesthetics of Politics. In 2 volumes

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This new seminal study by renowned Stalinist cultural historian Evgeny Dobrenko focuses on one of the least studied periods of Soviet history - late Stalinism. Examining the relationship between postwar Soviet cultural policy and political culture, the book presents a cultural and intellectual history of the era, told through an analysis of the cultural texts it produced - whether literature, cinema, theater, music, painting, architecture, or mass culture. Addressing the major cultural and political milestones of the postwar era, the author shows how the politics of Stalinism actually followed the basic aesthetic modus operandi, conventions, and tropes of socialist realism. This connection made it possible to create a new Soviet nation, whose basic phobias, traumas, enemy image, culture of resentiment, and entire mental profile, having finally emerged after the war and having survived not only the Stalinist but also the Soviet era, have defined the face of today's Russia. Evgeny Dobrenko is a philologist, cultural historian, and professor at the University of Sheffield (UK).
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