Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism

This book analyzes the modernist aesthetic utopia, advancing two arguments concerning the historical evolution of the Russian literary and cultural tradition: that modernism, ostensibly reacting against positivism and realism, assimilated some of the fundamental principles of its archenemy; and that there is an essential continuity between turn-of-the-century modernist aesthetics and Soviet culture of the 1920's and 1930's.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804722889
• ISBN13: 9780804722889
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"