Beau Monde on Empire's Edge
State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Seiten
2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5352-4 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5352-4 (ISBN)
Exploring Ukraine’s multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde restores the periphery to the center of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today.
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde restores the periphery to the center of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today.
Mayhill C. Fowler is an assistant professor of history at Stetson University.
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Ukrainian Edition
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader on Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Beau Monde on the Borderlands
1. The Russian Imperial Southwest: Theatre in the Age of Modernism and Pogroms
2. The Literary Fair: Mikhail Bulgakov and Mykola Kulish
3. Comedy Soviet and Ukrainian?: Il'f-Petrov and Ostap Vyshnia
4. The Officical Artist: Solomon Mikhoels and Les' Kurbas
5. The Arts Official: Andrii Khvylia, Vsevolod Balyts'kyi, and the Kremlin
6. Soviet Beau Monde: The Gulag and Kremlin Cabaret
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 13 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5352-8 / 1487553528 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5352-4 / 9781487553524 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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