Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary

by Edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

• ISBN13: 9780521148320
• ISBN10: 0521148324
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This pioneering study shows for the first time the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political culture, the work of disaffected writers and thinkers and that of intellectuals of the non-Russian nationalities. It offers a fresh perspective on the origins, formative years, and subsequent development of Soviet literature and culture, and raises new issues for research and discussion.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgement

List of abbreviations

Introduction Bernice

Nietzsche and the Prerevolutionary Roots of Soviet Culture:

Nietzsche and the young Mayakovsky

Khlebnikov and Nietzsche: pieces of an incomplete mosaic

Apollonianism and Christian art: Nietzsche's influence on Acmeism

Armchair anarchists and salon supermen: Russian occultists read Nietzsche

Nietzsche and Soviet Initiatives in the Arts:

Nietzschean leaders and followers in Soviet mass theater, 1917-27

Revolution as an aesthetic phenomenon: Nietzschean motifs in the reception of Isaac Babel (1923-32)

Nietzschean implications and superhuman aspirations in the architectural avant-garde

Nietzscheanism and the return of Pushkin in twentieth-century Russian culture (1899-1937)

Adaptations of Nietzsche in Soviet Ideology:

Nietzschean motifs in the Komsomol's vanguardism

Nietzschean roots of Stalinist culture

Superman imagery in Soviet photography and photomontage

Nietzsche among Disaffected Writers and Thinkers:

From beyond the abyss: Nietzschean myth in Zamiatin's We and Pasternak's Doctor

Mandelstam, Nietzsche, and the conscious creation of history

Nietzsche's influence on the non-official culture of the 1930s

Nietzsche and the Nationalities: A Case Study:

Nietzsche's influence on Hebrew writers of the Russian empire

Index

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