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The formation of Soviet multinational literature is usually attributed to 1934, the activities of Gor΄kii and the created Union of Soviet Writers. In fact, institutionally, the project of Soviet multinational literature began to be implemented within the framework of the VAPP (All-Union showcase of the RAPP, the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers) immediately after the creation of the USSR in 1922. Since in 1932 the RAPP was dissolved and condemned, it became politically disadvantageous to associate such an ideologically important project with it, and the entire dramatic history of the creation of Soviet multinational literature of the previous decade was erased and almost never mentioned (or mentioned in a highly distorted form). Based entirely on new archival sources, this article traces and documents for the first time this formative period in the institutionalization of Soviet multinational literature.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction - Eric Naiman -- Part One: Space and Art -- 1. Socialist Realism and the Sacralizing of Space - Katerina Clark -- 2. The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles around Stalin - Jan Plamper -- 3. Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s - Oksana Bulgakowa -- 4. "Broad Is My Motherland": The Mother Archetype and Space in the Soviet Mass Song - Hans Gunther -- 5. The Art of Totality - Boris Groys -- Part Two: Mobilizing the Soviet Subject -- 6. All This Can Be Yours!: Soviet Commercial Advertising and the Social Construction of Space, 1928-1956 - Randi Cox -- 7. The Art of Social Navigation: The Cultural Topography of the Stalin Era - Evgeny Dobrenko -- 8. "But Eastward, Look, the Land Is Brighter": Toward a Topography of Utopia in the Stalinist Musical - Richard Taylor -- Part Three: The Blank Page -- 9. To Explore or Conquer?: Mobile Perspectiveson the Soviet Cultural Revolution - Emma Widdis -- 10. Tabula Rasa in the North: The Soviet Arctic and Mythic Landscapes in Stalinist Popular Culture - John McCannon -- 11. "The Best in the World": The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s - Mikhail Ryklin -- 12. Russo-Soviet Topoi - Mikhail Epstein -- Contributors -- Index.

Contents -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- 1 Socialism as Will and Representation -- 2 Metamorphosis of Production Forces, 1: (Ideo/Bio/Agrobio)logy of the Socialist Realist Body -- 3 Metamorphosis of Production Forces, 2: Socialist Realism as a By-product of Coercion -- 4 Socialist Relations of Production: Lechery for Labor -- 5 Narrative as the Means of Producing Socialism: The Milk of the Present and the Curds of History -- 6 Bildungsfilm: The Birth of the Socialist-Realist Hero from the Flesh of Productive Forces -- the Birth of Melodrama from the Spirit of Industrial Relations