Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925

by Mark D. Steinberg

Book Overview

In fin-de-si?cle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on paper with the nature of civilization and the imperatives of ethical truth. In a strikingly original approach to Russian culture, Mark D. Steinberg listens to their words, which are little known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488265
• ISBN13: 9780801488269
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"