Stalinist Cosmopolitanism
[...]Clark builds up Moscow as a place that aspired to be world class, as evidenced by efforts to reconstruct it as a "higher order place" (27) in the mold of ancient Athens and Rome. [...]amid her efforts to open our understanding of 1930s Moscow-to unseat such distinctions as East versus...
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Published in | Criticism Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 163 - 167 |
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Format | Book Review Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Detroit
Wayne State University Press
15.01.2016
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Summary: | [...]Clark builds up Moscow as a place that aspired to be world class, as evidenced by efforts to reconstruct it as a "higher order place" (27) in the mold of ancient Athens and Rome. [...]amid her efforts to open our understanding of 1930s Moscow-to unseat such distinctions as East versus West, socialist realism versus modernism, dissident versus stooge-Clark remains keenly aware of the ever-tightening grip of Stalinism. |
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ISSN: | 0011-1589 1536-0342 |
DOI: | 10.13110/criticism.58.1.0163 |