Katerina Clark is professor of comparative literature and of
Slavic languages and literatures, Yale University. She lives in
Hamden, CT. Evgeny Dobrenko is professor in the
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, University of Nottingham.
He lives in England.
"Clark and Dobrenko not only provide a careful and creatively
organized selection of documents but also, in their commentary, a
concise and incisive analysis of Soviet cultural history."—Carol
Avins, Rutgers University
*Carol Avins*
"To have these documents in one place, and accessible for
students in English with detailed explanations and commentary, is
nothing less than a small miracle. Beg, buy or borrow this
wonderful book if you care about Russian culture."—Jeffrey Brooks,
author of Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from
Revolution to Cold War
*Jeffrey Brooks*
"This is a history of Soviet culture under Lenin and Stalin told in
documents. The story unfolds in letters, public appeals,
bureaucratic decisions, official orders, marginal jottings, police
reports and memoranda, comments of censors, petitions, transcripts
of meetings, and more. To have these documents in one
place, and accessible for students in English with detailed
explanations and commentary, is nothing less than a small miracle.
Beg, buy or borrow this wonderful book if you care about Russian
culture."—Jeffrey Brooks, author of Thank You, Comrade Stalin!
Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War
*Jeffrey Brooks*
"Joseph Stalin famously described Soviet writers as 'engineers of
human souls.' This remarkable collection of documents, laden with
comedy and sheer stupidity as well as calculated repression,
chronicles the Bolshevik government's effort to control all
cultural institutions and creative individuals. This is a story of
compelling interest not only for Sovietologists but for anyone who
wants to know what happens when a government treats culture as a
long-term engineering project."—Susan Jacoby, author of
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
*Susan Jacoby*
"Throws a bright light on the party's torturous dealings with
writers and on the inevitable conflict between art and propaganda.
Perhaps the book's biggest surprise is its revelation of Stalin as
literary critic. Despite his onerous responsibilities as party
chief, dictator and head of state, no detail seems to have been too
small for Stalin's eagle eye—a backhanded compliment if ever there
was one to the awesome power of the written word."—Michael
Scammell, author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
*Michael Scammell*
"Soviet Culture and Power is a groundbreaking work that provides
access to significant archival materials for a population that
might never have been able to read and analyze these
documents."—Cynthia A. Ruder, Slavic and East European Journal
*Slavic and East European Journal*
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