Description
Product ID: | 9780253038227 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Generation Stalin |
Subtitle: | French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality |
Authors: | Author: Andrew Sobanet |
Page Count: | 312 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, European history, History, Political leaders and leadership, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Political leaders & leadership, Russia, French, 20th century |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within the USSR. Based on a wide array of sources-literary, cinematic, historical, and archival-Generation Stalin situates in a broad cultural context the work of the most prominent intellectuals affiliated with the French Communist Party, including Goncourt winner Henri Barbusse, Nobel laureate Romain Rolland, renowned poet Paul Eluard, and canonical literary figure Louis Aragon. Generation Stalin arrives at a pivotal moment, with the Stalin cult and elements of Stalinist ideology resurgent in twenty-first-century Russia and authoritarianism on the rise around the world. |
Imprint Name: | Indiana University Press |
Publisher Name: | Indiana University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-09-11 |