1993•The Slavic and East European JournalRequires access

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and beyond

Mary A. Nicholas, Boris Groys, Charles Rougle

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Introduction: The Culture of the Stalin Era in Historical Perspective3Ch. 1The Russian Avant-Garde: The Leap over Progress14White Humanity15Red Agitation19Ch. 2The Stalinist Art of Living33Judgment Day for World Culture37The Typology of the Nonexistent50The Earthly Incarnation of the Demiurge56Ch. 3Postutopian Art: From Myth to Mythology75The Lost Horizon81The Avant-Garde Artist as the Little Man84Stalin's Best Pupils89Poet and Militiaman95A Cruel Talent99Chronicler of the Kremlin102Ch. 4Designers of the Unconscious and Their Audience113Notes121

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Key concepts: Dictatorship, Avant garde, Art, Literature, Aesthetics, Art history, Political science, Law