Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Works Frequently Cited
Introduction
Section I: The Seed-Time: The Russification of Nietzsche, 1890–1917
1. Symbolists
2. Philosophers
3. Nietzschean Marxists
4. Futurists
Summary: The Nietzschean Agenda in 1917
Section II. Nietzsche in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War, 1917–1921
5. Apocalypse Now: Bolshevik Fusions of Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche
6. Beyond Bolshevism: Visions of a Revolution of the Spirit
Section III. Nietzschean Ideas in the Period of the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921–1927
7. Concretizing the Myth: New Cult, New Man, New Morality
8. New Forms, New Language, New Politics
Section IV. Echoes of Nietzsche in Stalin’s Time, 1928–1953
Part I: Dionysus Unleashed: The Cultural Revolution and the First Five-Year Plan
9. "Great Politics" Stalin-Style
10. Cultural Revolution in the Arts and Sciences
Part II: Art as a Lie: Nietzsche and Socialist Realism
11. Nietzsche’s Contributions to the Theory of Socialist Realism
12. The Theory Implemented
Part III: The Lie Triumphant: Nietzsche and Stalinist Political Culture
13. The Stalin Cult and Its Complements
14. Cultural Expressions of the Will to Power
Epilogue: De-Stalinization and the Reemergence of Nietzsche
Index
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal is Professor of History at Fordham University. She is the editor of three prior books that have paved the way for this study - Nietzsche in Russia (1986), Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary (1994), and The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture (1997). She is also the co-author of A Revolution of the Spirit: Crisis of Value in Russia, 1890-1924 (1990).
"In New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche to Stalinism, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal proposes a refreshing, unconventional approach to Nietzsche's heritage, and demonstrates how ideas have a life of their own, influencing, in arcane ways, trends that may be the opposite of what their proponents claim.... Professor Rosenthal's book is an exercise in cultural archeology: she excavates long-forgotten or neglected themes, symbols, and ideas that have permeated various trends of the Russian tradition from the populists to the Bolsheviks." - Vladimir Tismaneanu, Times Literary Supplement; "Rosenthal's mastery of the often intricate details of Russian and Soviet political thought is truly impressive and contributes dramatically to the credibility of her thesis. Her work will force scholars to reevaluate not only Nietzsche's influence on twentieth-century thought but also the origins of Soviet culture. Anyone who wants to understand the evolution of Marxist-Leninist thought, in all of its manifestations, would do well to read New Myth, New World." - Russel Lemmons, History; "In her third book on Nietzsche and Russia, Rosenthal documents the persistence of Nietzsche in Russia's history in a recondite and kaleidoscopic way. Her command of the topic shows.... Highly recommended." - A. Ezergailis, Choice"
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