Communism and Culture: An Introduction - Couverture souple

Stern, Radu; Tismaneanu, Vladimir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 303082652X ISBN 13 : 9783030826529

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between communism (understood as an ideological, political, and social project) and culture, broadly defined as the field of aesthetic production. Communism was a global phenomenon, and the global civil war of the 20th century was, in more than one respect, a cultural war, which involved some of the most influential figures of the last century. The book highlights and explains the impact of political mythologies in the effiorts to transcend the “bourgeois” legacies and engage in a social, cultural, and anthropological revolution. The authors examine the interplay between utopian goals and cultural practices in fields such as literature, visual arts, film, and humanities in general.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Radu Stern taught Art History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and was invited to teach at the University de Bourgogne, France, the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and the University of Massachusetts, USA. Among his various research interests, the study of the European avant-garde is a privileged subject.

Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA. His most recent book, co-authored with Kate C. Langdon, is Putin's Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century (2020).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 303082652X
• ISBN 13: 9783030826529
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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