Socialist Realism without Shores

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko, eds. Socialist Realism without Shores. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. vi, 369 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. $59.95, cloth. $19.95, paper.

One might query this eponymous republication of a special 1995 issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly devoted to socialist realism in Russia and abroad, especially because several items in that collection had appeared previously. Our doubts are allayed, however, when we consider the recent surge of scholarly interest in reexamining official Soviet culture from non-Cold War perspectives. Moreover, the present ...

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