The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature

by Evgeny Dobrenko

In Soviet culture, the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the aesthetic doctrine at the heart of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded. Because of this, Soviet culture cannot be examined properly without taking into account the reading masses. This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, a history of the "State appropriation of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728542
• ISBN13: 9780804728546
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"