{"product_id":"prodigal-son-john-givens-9780810117709","title":"Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shuksin in Soviet Russian Culture","description":"A wildly prolific director, actor, and writer, Vasilii Shukshin (1929-74) reached more Soviets in more media than perhaps any other artist in the post-Stalinist USSR. This first English-language study of Shukshin and his work is thus a portrait of the culture of Soviet Russia after Stalin. John Givens begins with Shukshin's position between cultural realms and social strata: his abandoned peasant heritage in Siberia as the son of a purged kulak on the one hand and his life as a successful artist in Moscow on the other. Givens shows how this clash of cultures and identities was both a burden and the driving force of Shukshin's art-and how it represents a central dichotomy between rural and urban culture in Soviet Russia.This work provides new terms for rereading the culture of Shukshin's time- terms that take up notions of demographic displacement, class difference, and blurred boundaries among genres, audiences, and arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Givens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810117703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810117709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.57h x 6.42w x 1.06d","brand":"John Givens","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065160872191,"sku":"9780810117709","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3b03ee64-9cd2-4fff-9e17-9617db398629.jpg?v=1768673393","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prodigal-son-john-givens-9780810117709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}