Rolf Hellebust
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rolf Hellebust |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Hellebust |
| SIGNATURE | HELLEBUST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A roundtable on Ann Komaromi’s Soviet Samizdat
Suffering and Seeing in Kataev's Vremia, vpered
Valentin Kataev's fascination with the idea of a revolutionary temporality in his classic Socialist Realist novel, Vremia vpered! (Time, Forward!, 1932), allies him not only with literary colleagues such as Maiakovskii, but with European modernism in general. Yet time is not what this book is really about; neither is it about the equally prominent motif of labour as holy suffering. Instead, it is a third overarching theme that emerges as decisive…
Flesh to Metal
"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good—or very bad—has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth century. Russia was no exception."—from the introductionIn the Soviet Union, it seems, armoring oneself against the world did not suffice—it was best to bec…
The Real St. Petersburg
Men without Women
The Novelistic Approach to the Utopian Question
Bakhtin and the "Virtual Sequel" in Russian Literature
Metal in the Works of Vasilii Aksenov
Why has the search for a Soviet cultural mythology become so attractive to scholars East and West? The reasons are complex, and some have more to do with academic politics than with real advances in understanding. Nevertheless, much of Soviet reality-as constructed by both leadership and people-is better interpreted in terms of a shared cultural landscape of myths and symbols, than it is in terms of ideological systems. While Marxist ideology is …
Aleksei Gastev and the Metallization of the Revolutionary Body
Since Marx was strong on criticizing capitalism, not so strong on the practical mechanics of revolution, and rather wobbly on the communist future itself, we cannot blame his Soviet followers if their ultimate goal always remained a religious mystery, veiled by the pseudoscience of political dogma. The veil enhances the mystery; it obscures the fact that thereisa mystery-that the real transformation of society into Utopia and the individual into …
The Real St. Petersburg
Bakhtin and the "Virtual Sequel" in Russian Literature
Aleksei Gastev and the Metallization of the Revolutionary Body
Since Marx was strong on criticizing capitalism, not so strong on the practical mechanics of revolution, and rather wobbly on the communist future itself, we cannot blame his Soviet followers if their ultimate goal always remained a religious mystery, veiled by the pseudoscience of political dogma. The veil enhances the mystery; it obscures the fact that thereisa mystery-that the real transformation of society into Utopia and the individual into …
Aleksei Gastev and the Metallization of the Revolutionary Body
Since Marx was strong on criticizing capitalism, not so strong on the practical mechanics of revolution, and rather wobbly on the communist future itself, we cannot blame his Soviet followers if their ultimate goal always remained a religious mystery, veiled by the pseudoscience of political dogma. The veil enhances the mystery; it obscures the fact that thereisa mystery-that the real transformation of society into Utopia and the individual into …
Metal in the Works of Vasilii Aksenov
Why has the search for a Soviet cultural mythology become so attractive to scholars East and West? The reasons are complex, and some have more to do with academic politics than with real advances in understanding. Nevertheless, much of Soviet reality-as constructed by both leadership and people-is better interpreted in terms of a shared cultural landscape of myths and symbols, than it is in terms of ideological systems. While Marxist ideology is …
Bakhtin and the "Virtual Sequel" in Russian Literature
The Novelistic Approach to the Utopian Question
Men without Women
Flesh to Metal
"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good—or very bad—has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth century. Russia was no exception."—from the introductionIn the Soviet Union, it seems, armoring oneself against the world did not suffice—it was best to bec…
The Real St. Petersburg
Suffering and Seeing in Kataev's Vremia, vpered
Valentin Kataev's fascination with the idea of a revolutionary temporality in his classic Socialist Realist novel, Vremia vpered! (Time, Forward!, 1932), allies him not only with literary colleagues such as Maiakovskii, but with European modernism in general. Yet time is not what this book is really about; neither is it about the equally prominent motif of labour as holy suffering. Instead, it is a third overarching theme that emerges as decisive…
A roundtable on Ann Komaromi’s Soviet Samizdat
Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Soviet and Russian History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works)