Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910–1925 - Hardcover

Steinberg, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 164469803X ISBN 13: 9781644698037

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2022

Synopsis

In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on paper with the nature of civilization and the imperatives of ethical truth. In a strikingly original approach to Russian culture, Mark D. Steinberg listens to their words, which are little known today. The results of their literary creativity, he finds, were frequently not what the new Soviet order was expecting from its workers, despite its celebration of the notion of a proletarian art.

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About the Author

Mark Steinberg has taught at Harvard and Yale universities and, from 1996 to 2021, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His recent and current writing focuses on urban history, revolutions, emotions, religion, violence, space, and utopias. He is the author of a number of books and many articles and completed a video/audio lecture series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: Russian
• ISBN 10: 164469803X
• ISBN 13: 9781644698037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 546