Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

by Keith A. Livers

Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship within the context of Stalinist ideology of the 1930s and '40s. Author Keith A. Livers examines the ways in which Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Kassil' and other authors used corporeal imagery as a means of both resisting and furthering the idea...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739135252
• ISBN13: 9780739135259
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"