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Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by Academic Studies Press 2012

Art as Technique

From the book From Symbolism to Socialist Realism

  • Viktor Shklovskii
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618111449-008
© 2019 Academic Studies Press, Boston, USA
From the book
From Symbolism to Socialist Realism
From Symbolism to Socialist Realism

Chapters in this book (55)

Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Section One. Russian Culture before the October Revolution
Introduction
Historical-Cultural Contexts
Father Gapon and the St. Petersburg Massacre of 1905
The Assassination of Grand Duke Sergei
Modernist Views on Art in Essays and Manifestos, Criticism
Keys to the Mysteries
Two Tendencies of Contemporary Lyric Poetry
Art as Technique
Slap in the Face of Public Taste
Declaration of TransrationaL Language
“The Cherry Orchard”
’The Marble Bust’ and Briusov’s Vision of Art
Vignettes
The Marble Bust: A Tramp’s Story
The Stranger
When in a Suicidal Anguish
The Lost Streetcar
Section Two. From Civil War to Stalinism via Nep
Introduction
Everyday Life: Reality and Dreams
Attic Life
Make way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working youth Love as a Socio-psychological Factor
The New Way of Life
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters
Literary Criticism
Zamyatin’s WE, the Proletarian Poets and Bogdanov’s Red Star
Bright Hopes and Dark Insights
Bulgakov’s Early Tragedy of the Scientist-Creator: An Interpretation of The Heart of a Dog
The Masks of Mikhail Zoshchenko
Through the Wrong End of Binoculars: An Introduction to Iurii Olesha
Two Plays
Vignettes
Brothers, Let’s Glorify the Twilight of Freedom
A Dogged Sense of Smell
Nervous People
Brooklyn Bridge
Section Three. The Stalinist Period and World War II
Introduction
Memoirs
1930: How Meierkhol’d Put on My Play
Ivanov-Razumnik, from The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik
Antonina Pirozhkova, from At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel
Cultural Contexts
The Mystery and the Magic of Stalin’s Power
The Tower of Babel Undone in a Soviet Pentecost
Tchaikovsky as Communist Icon
Power Relationships and Authorship
Soviet Labor Camps: A Brief History
Socialist Realism
Soviet Literature
Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature
The Typology of the Nonexistent
War Diary
Excerpts
Vignettes
We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange
Russia, Our Happiness. Russia, Our Light
This Thing Called Homesickness! A Fable
No Matter How the Soviet Tinsel Glitters
Song about our Motherland
A Word to Comrade Stalin
Epilogue. After WWII and after Stalin
Comments on the Epilogue Selections
A Denunciation
The Central Committee Resolution on the Journals Zvezda and Leningrad
Memoir
Evgenii Evtushenko, from Yevtushenko’s Reader: The Spirit of Elbe; A Precocious Autobiography; Poems
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