{"product_id":"stalin-s-ghosts","title":"Stalin’s Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStalin’s Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223319466328,"sku":"9781803742205","price":67.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781803742205_e7ef84f2-181d-4893-950a-315083786089.jpg?v=1777086018","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stalin-s-ghosts","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}