Epic Revisionism

Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda

By: Kevin M. F. Platt (Editor)

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Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution-figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Lermontov-Epic Revisionism tells the fascinating story of these individuals' return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era.

An inherently interdisciplinary project, Epic Revisionism features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater. This volume pairs scholarly essays with selections drawn from Stalin-era primary sources-newspaper articles, unpublished archival documents, short stories-to provide students and specialists with the richest possible understanding of this understudied phenomenon in modern Russian history.

"These scholars shed a great deal of light not only on Stalinist culture but on the politics of cultural production under the Soviet system."-David L. Hoffmann,Slavic Review

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"Platt and Brandenberger have collected first-rate contributors and produced a coherent and powerful volume that amplifies what we know about the uses and abuses of history in the Soviet 1930s." - Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago"

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Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
A Note on Conventions	p. xiii
Terms and Acronyms	p. xv
Introduction: Tsarist-Era Heroes in Stalinist Mass Culture and Propaganda	p. 3
Lev Tolstoi
Tolstoi in 1928: In the Mirror of the Revolution	p. 17
Press Commentary on the Tolstoi Centenary Celebration, "Do We Know How to Celebrate Jubilees?" Chitatel' i pisatel', 7 November 1928	p. 39
Peter the Great
Rehabilitation and Afterimage: Aleksei Tolstoi's Many Returns to Peter the Great	p. 47
Aleksei Tolstoi's Remarks on the Film Peter I, "At Aleksei Tolstoi's," Skorokhodovskii rabochii, 15 September 1937	p. 69
The Epic Heroes
Chronicle of a Poet's Downfall: Dem'ian Bednyi, Russian History, and The Epic Heroes	p. 77
The Reaction of Writers and Artists to the Banning of D. Bednyi's Comic Opera, NKVD Report, 1936	p. 99
Nikolai Leskov
The Adventures of a Leskov Story in Soviet Russia, or the Socialist Realist Opera That Wasn't	p. 117
The Official Denunciation of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, "Muddle Instead of Music," Pravda, 28 January 1936	p. 135
Ivan the Terrible
The Terrible Tsar as Comic Hero: Mikhail Bulgakov's Ivan Vasil'evich	p. 143
Terribly Pragmatic: Rewriting the History of Ivan IV's Reign, 1937-1956	p. 157
Internal Debate within the Party Hierarchy about the Rehabilitation of Ivan the Terrible, "Memorandum to Stalin concerning A. N. Tolstoi's Play Ivan the Terrible," 1941-1943	p. 179
Aleksandr Pushkin
The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee as Epic Trauma	p. 193
Editorial Eulogy of A. S. Pushkin, "The Glory of the Russian People," Pravda, 10 February 1937	p. 214
The Pushkin Jubilee as Farce, "What I Would Like to Say about the Late Poet," Krokodil 5 (1937); "A Speech Given during the Pushkin Days at a Meeting of the Tenants' Cooperative on Malaia Perinnaia, No. 7," Krokodil 5 (1937)	p. 220
Aleksandr Nevskii
The Popular Reception of S. M. Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevskii	p. 233
Aleksander Nevskii as Russian Patriot, "An Epic Hero-People," Pravda, 7 November 1938	p. 253
Ivan Susanin
Reinventing the Enemy: The Villains of Glinka's Opera Ivan Susanin on the Soviet Stage	p. 261
Official Praise for Ivan Susanin, "Ivan Susanin on the Stage of the Bolshoi Theater," Pravda, 7 February 1939	p. 276
Mikhail Lermontov
Fashioning "Our Lermontov": Canonization and Conflict in the Stalinist 1930s	p. 283
A Rare Voice of Caution, "In the Poet's Defense," Pravda, 25 August 1939	p. 308
Epilogue
An Internationalist's Complaint to Stalin and the Ensuing Scandal, 31 January 1939; 16 February 1939	p. 315
Conclusion: Epic Revisionism and the Crafting of a Soviet Public	p. 325
Archival Repository Abbreviations	p. 341
Contributors	p. 343
Index	p. 347
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