Petrified Utopia
Marina Balina
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Description for Petrified Utopia
Hardcover. Editor(s): Balina, Marina; Dobrenko, Evgeny. Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Num Pages: 334 pages, 36+ images. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 702.
Taken together, these essays redefine the preconceived notion of Soviet happiness as the product of official ideology imposed from above and expressed predominantly through collective experience, and provide evidence that the formation of the concept of individual happiness was not contained by the limitations of important state projects, controlled by state policies and aimed toward the creation of a new society.
Product Details
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
334
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Condition
New
Weight
701g
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843313106
SKU
V9781843313106
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About Marina Balina
Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian Studies at Sheffield University.
Reviews for Petrified Utopia
‘This volume is an invaluable collection of excellent scholarship […] the chapters yield stunning insights into discursive claims of Soviet public and private happiness in circumstances least amenable to its flourishing: amidst poverty and homelessness, domestic shortages, postwar devastation, and routinized, mandatory celebration. The research usefully problematizes the inextricability of state celebration from private joy, labor from happiness, staged gaiety ... Read more