Tomoff Kiril (69 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Why did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in the arts, witness such an extraordinary upsurge of musical creativity and the prominence of musicians in the cultural elite? This is one of the questions that Kiril Tomoff seeks to answer in Creative Union, the first book about any of the professional unions that dominated Soviet cultural life at the time. Drawing on hitherto untapped archives, he shows how the Union of Soviet Composers established control over the music profession and negotiated the relationship between composers and the Communist Party leadership. Central to Tomoff's argument is the institutional authority and prestige that the musical profession accrued and deployed within Soviet society, enabling musicians to withstand the postwar disciplinary campaigns that were so crippling in other artistic and literary spheres. Most accounts of Soviet musical life focus on famous individuals or the campaign against Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth and Zhdanov's postwar attack on musical formalism. Tomoff's approach, while not downplaying these notorious events, shows that the Union was able to develop and direct a musical profession that enjoyed enormous social prestige. The Union's leadership was able to use its expertise to determine the criteria of musical value with a degree of independence. Tomoff's book reveals the complex and mutable interaction of creative intelligentsia and political elite in a period hitherto characterized as one of totalitarian control.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In the 1940s and 1950s, Soviet musicians and ensembles were acclaimed across the globe. They toured the world, wowing critics and audiences, projecting an image of the USSR as a sophisticated promoter of cultural and artistic excellence. In Virtuosi Abroad, Kiril Tomoff focuses on music and the Soviet Union's star musicians to explore the dynamics of the cultural Cold War. He views the competition in the cultural sphere as part of the ongoing U.S. and Soviet efforts to integrate the rest of the world into their respective imperial projects. Tomoff argues that the spectacular Soviet successes in the system of international music competitions, taken together with the rapturous receptions accorded touring musicians, helped to persuade the Soviet leadership of the superiority of their system. This, combined with the historical triumphalism central to the Marxist-Leninist worldview, led to confidence that the USSR would be the inevitable winner in the global competition with the United States.Successes masked the fact that the very conditions that made them possible depended on a quiet process by which the USSR began to participate in an international legal and economic system dominated by the United States. Once the Soviet leadership transposed its talk of system superiority to the economic sphere, focusing in particular on consumer goods and popular culture, it had entered a competition that it could not win. In Virtuosi Abroad, Kiril Tomoff focuses on music and the Soviet Union's star musicians to explore the dynamics of the cultural Cold War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, viii + 246 pages, NOT ex-library. Owner's name in ink at the top of the title page; a touch of wear to tips of corners. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of stamps, firmly bound. Straight uncreased spine. -- "Sheila Fitzpatrick's numerous studies of the first three decades of Soviet history have fundamentally influenced the manner in which historians comprehend the Soviet Union today. This volume provides a valuable perspective on the current state of the field as reflected in multiple aspects of her work, including the nature and evolution of her interpretation of Soviet history; the impact of her scholarship on countless students; and the interaction of personality and individual experiences. Bringing together outstanding essays on such diverse aspects of the Stalin era as the Soviet monopoly on information and communication, violence in the Gulag, and gender relations after World War II, this volume both highlights Fitzpatrick's legacy and introduces readers to exciting new work in the field." -- Contents: Preface; 1 Writing Russia: The Work of Sheila Fitzpatrick / Ronald Grigor Suny; 2 Sheila Fitzpatrick: An Interpretive Essay / Julie Hessler; 3 The Two Faces of Tatiana Matveevna / Yuri Slezkine; 4 Military Occupation and Social Unrest: Daily Life in Russian Poland at the Start of World War I / Joshua Sanborn; 5 Seeing Like a Soviet State: Settlement of Nomadic Kazakhs, 1928-1934 / Matthew J. Payne; 6 Counternarratives of Soviet Life: Kulak Special Settlers in the First Person / Lynne Viola; 7 Gender, Marriage, and Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union / Mie Nakachi; 8 Collective Action in Soviet Society: The Case of War Veterans / Mark Edele; 9 "Shostakovich et al." and The Iron Curtain: Intellectual Property and the Development of a Soviet Strategy of Cultural Confrontation, 1948-1949 / Kiril Tomoff; 10 A Torture Memo: Reading Violence in the Gulag / Golfo Alexopoulos; 11 Founding Fathers/Iconic Soviets: Public Identity, Soviet Mythology, and the Fashioning of Science Heroes in Soviet Times / James T. Andrews; 12 Reminiscences [Peter Nicholls; David Fitzpatrick; Barbara Gillam; Jerry F. Hough; Efim Iosifovich Pivovar; Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov; Leora Auslander; Alison Edwards; Katerina Clark; Kiril Tomoff]; Notes on Contributors; Index.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xiv, 321 p. 25 cm. (alk. paper) Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index. ; 1st printing.

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Condition: New. Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union. Editor(s): Alexopoulos, Golfo; Tomoff, Kiril; Hessler, Julie. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362. . 2011. 2011th Edition. paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union. Editor(s): Alexopoulos, Golfo; Tomoff, Kiril; Hessler, Julie. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517. . 2011. Hardback. . . . .…

Condition: New. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; AVC; HBJD; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 321 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.