{"product_id":"stalins-ghosts-muireann-maguire-9781803742205","title":"Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStalin's Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Muireann Maguire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803742208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803742205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Muireann Maguire","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159284936959,"sku":"9781803742205","price":82.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfdb3cce-07d0-4afe-a6e4-a14b50ff6884.jpg?v=1689081695","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stalins-ghosts-muireann-maguire-9781803742205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}