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

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

Evgeny Dobrenko with Jesse M. Savage (Translator)

392 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary
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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 cu...

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