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Vesa Oittinen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland.) Elina Viljanen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland.)

Stalin Era Intellectuals

Culture and Stalinism

Vesa Oittinen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland.),  Elina Viljanen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland.)

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Routledge
27 May 2024
History of other lands
Series: Studies in Contemporary Russia
This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era. The authors question how we should consider certain intellectual achievements which took place despite the pressure of Stalinism, and how best to recognise and describe such achievements. The chapters in this book offer suggestions for new interpretations on Soviet philosophy of science and humanities, linguistics, philosophy, musicology, literature and mathematics from the point of view of general cultural theory. In this way, they challenge the received image of the Stalin-era humanities which reduces them into mere propaganda. Intended for scholars of Russian and Soviet studies, this book will dispel many received views about the character of Stalinism and Soviet culture.

Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   430g
ISBN:   9781032114217
ISBN 10:   1032114215
Series:   Studies in Contemporary Russia
Pages:   270
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1 Introduction: On Soviet Intellectual Culture during the Stalin Era 2 Fighting Avant-Garde with Phenomenology: Gustav Shpet’s ‘New Realism’ 3 Stalin and Philosophy in Soviet Russia 4 ‘Menshevising Idealism’ and Stalinisation of Philosophy 5 The Naked Truth of Fact: Andrey Platonov on the Margins of Factography 6 Everyday Symphonism: Boris Asafiev’s Soviet Theory of Popular Music 7 Confronting Modernism in the Stalin Era: Mikhail Lifshits as Critic and Philosopher of Culture 8 Maxim Gorky as Spokesman for Proletarian Humanism 9 Sofya Yanovskaya in Defence of Abstractions: Between Soviet Ideology and Bourgeois Idealism 10 The Anti-Fascist Cultural Theory of Nikolai Bukharin and the Concept of Socialist Humanism 11 Nikolay Marr’s Theory of Language and Konstantin Megrelidze’s Historical Science of Thought 12 Between Critique and Conformism: The Languages and Cultures of Caste and Nation in Stalin-Era Indology 13 Stalinism, War, and Artistic Representation of Reality: Konstantin Simonov’s Critique of the ‘System of Silence’ in 1956

Vesa Oittinen is a professor emeritus of Russian philosophy and intellectual history at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). His publications focus on the history of philosophy, especially Spinoza, German classical philosophy and Marxism, and on Russian and Soviet philosophy. Elina Viljanen is a post-doctoral scholar at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). Holding a PhD in musicology, she specialises in Russian intellectual history of music and Soviet culture.

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