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Article: Mass culture in Soviet Russia: tales, poems, songs, movies, plays, and folklore, 1917-1953.
- Article from:
- Ethnologies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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This anthology of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore provides a close look at the mass culture consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. The authors represent a time-line study of both the changing sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture that flourished beneath the surface from the beginning of the Russian Revolution and the postwar era ending with the death of Joseph Stalin.
While the authors give us an "insider's view" of mass culture, the editors set the stage with an Introduction followed by a contextual paragraph presenting each piece. The project began some years ago as a ...