The mythology of Soviet everyday life in the literature and culture of the Stalin era. Monograph: Kulyapin, Skubach

The main task of the book is to portray the Soviet past in the usual perspective of the history of facts, but as a history of ideas, beliefs and errors of the average “homo soveeticus”, the inhabitant of the world of the Stalinist utopia. Based on the material of literature, cinema, painting, the art of the poster, as well as on the memoirs and journalism of the Stalin, the authors explore the specifically Soviet perception of such significant aspects of human life as the national-cultural space, dream, bodily, food, funeral ritual, vehicles, gifts of gift and ritual ritual, popular forms et al. The publication is intended for philologists, historians, representatives of other humanitarian specialties, as well as for all those who are interested in Russian culture of the 20th century.

Author
Kulyapin Alexander Ivanovich, Skubach Olga Aleksandrovna
Editor
Silantiev I.V.
Publisher
Languages ​​of Slavic cultures, 2013
Series
Communicative cultural strategies
Genre
The history of the USSR