Evgeny Dobrenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 542704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evgeny Dobrenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evgeny |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobrenko |
| SIGNATURE | DOBRENKO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4039-4967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Socialist Realism
Socialist Realism was the (only) art officially sponsored in the Soviet Union. This chapter traces how it emerged, developed and faded away along with the Soviet regime. Socialist Realism was specific and unique, as never before had an artistic movement became a focus of state and bureaucratic activity. The political servility, explicit propagandistic aims and aesthetic inferiority of this populist art gave Socialist Realism both originality and …
The Novel II
This chapter examines the history of the Russian novel after 1900 as a cyclical reworking or recycling of two traditions stretching back to the nineteenth century. The first, harmonious tradition is associated with Aleksandr Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, and Lev Tolstoi, while the second, disharmonious one follows the examples of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Leskov, and Fedor Dostoevskii. The Modernist novel inherited the second trend in the …
The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature
This is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative but as multiple parallel histories. Each of its four strands tells a story of Russian literature according to a defined criterion: Movements, …
Hegemony of Brotherhood
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 an…
Late Stalinism
This nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period—beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953—analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, the book argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia. The book provides a cultural and intellectual history of the era in wh…
Late Stalinism
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
A cultura soviética entre a revolução e o stalinismo
Este artigo apresenta algumas linhas gerais do debate sobre revolução e cultura entre 1917 e o período stalinista, com destaque para o fenômeno do realismo socialista
Prigov and the Gesamtkunstwerk
This article discusses the relation of Prigov's cultural project to a concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk , the total work of art. It is not only notable that Prigov was simultaneously a poet, a painter, a sculptor, a performance artist, and a theoretician (and it is hard to say which of these roles he identified most strongly with), but that he also experimented with all possible materials, forms, genres, and types of art. Also remarkable is that ope…
Russian Literature since 1991
Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian literature and culture, it presents a broad panorama o…
Michael David-FOX. Showcasing the Great Experiment
Michael David-Fox's book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Soviet cultural diplomacy in the interwar period since the opening of previously inaccessible Soviet archives. This work should be considered in the wider context of the current scholarly task: the reconceptualization of Soviet and international history in the new post-Soviet (post-Sovietological) era. However, the topic of the book goes far beyond the disciplinary boundaries of …
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré lite…
The “Special” World
Utopias of return
Petrified Utopia
Petrified Utopia redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture
Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History
Political economy of socialist realism
Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at h…
Aesthetics of Alienation
Aesthetics of Alienation
1. Academy of Poetry and Russian Society 2. Proletkult: The Music of Revolution or, Creation without Creators 3. RAPP: Aesthetics of Restraint or, Worldview as Creation 4. LEF: Third Factory as New Aesthetic Enterprise 5. Pereval: Organic Creativity or, Hands for the Hourglass 6. Social Mandate or, Flexion in an Inflexible Time 7. Socialist Realism: Petrified Utopia
The Entire Real World of Children
Evgeny Dobrenko, "The Entire Real World of Children": The School Tale and "Our Happy Childhood", The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, Special Forum Issue: Russian Children's Literature: Changing Paradigms (Summer, 2005), pp. 225-248
Socialist Realism without Shores
Socialist Realism without Shores
Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism - an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This expanded edition of a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly brings together scholars from various parts of the globe to discuss socialist realism as it appears across genres in art, architecture, film, and…
(Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy; or, Life as Genre
(1996). (Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy; or, Life as Genre: Alesha Peshkov—Maksim Gorky—Mark Donskoi. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, RETHINKING RUSSIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, pp. 43-67
Die sowjetische Kulturpolitik von 1970-1985
Utopias of return
The Literature of the Zhdanov Era
Research Article| April 01 1991 The Literature of the Zhdanov Era: Mentality, Mythology, Lexicon Evgeny Dobrenko Evgeny Dobrenko Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (2): 323–355. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-90-2-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Evgeny Dobrenko; The Literature of the Zhdanov Era: Mentality, Mythology,…
The Literature of the Zhdanov Era
Research Article| April 01 1991 The Literature of the Zhdanov Era: Mentality, Mythology, Lexicon Evgeny Dobrenko Evgeny Dobrenko Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (2): 323–355. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-90-2-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Evgeny Dobrenko; The Literature of the Zhdanov Era: Mentality, Mythology,…
Die sowjetische Kulturpolitik von 1970-1985
The Disaster of Middlebrow Taste, or, Who "Invented" Socialist Realism
Research Article| July 01 1995 The Disaster of Middlebrow Taste, or, Who “Invented” Socialist Realism? Evgeny Dobrenko Evgeny Dobrenko Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 773–806. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-3-773 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Evgeny Dobrenko; The Disaster of Middlebrow Taste, or, Who “Invente…
(Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy; or, Life as Genre
(1996). (Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy; or, Life as Genre: Alesha Peshkov—Maksim Gorky—Mark Donskoi. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, RETHINKING RUSSIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, pp. 43-67
Socialist Realism without Shores
Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism - an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This expanded edition of a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly brings together scholars from various parts of the globe to discuss socialist realism as it appears across genres in art, architecture, film, and…
Socialist Realism without Shores
Aesthetics of Alienation
1. Academy of Poetry and Russian Society 2. Proletkult: The Music of Revolution or, Creation without Creators 3. RAPP: Aesthetics of Restraint or, Worldview as Creation 4. LEF: Third Factory as New Aesthetic Enterprise 5. Pereval: Organic Creativity or, Hands for the Hourglass 6. Social Mandate or, Flexion in an Inflexible Time 7. Socialist Realism: Petrified Utopia
The Entire Real World of Children
Evgeny Dobrenko, "The Entire Real World of Children": The School Tale and "Our Happy Childhood", The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, Special Forum Issue: Russian Children's Literature: Changing Paradigms (Summer, 2005), pp. 225-248
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at h…
Aesthetics of Alienation
Political economy of socialist realism
Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism
Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History
Petrified Utopia
Petrified Utopia redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré lite…
The “Special” World
Utopias of return
Michael David-FOX. Showcasing the Great Experiment
Michael David-Fox's book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Soviet cultural diplomacy in the interwar period since the opening of previously inaccessible Soviet archives. This work should be considered in the wider context of the current scholarly task: the reconceptualization of Soviet and international history in the new post-Soviet (post-Sovietological) era. However, the topic of the book goes far beyond the disciplinary boundaries of …
Russian Literature since 1991
Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian literature and culture, it presents a broad panorama o…
Prigov and the Gesamtkunstwerk
This article discusses the relation of Prigov's cultural project to a concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk , the total work of art. It is not only notable that Prigov was simultaneously a poet, a painter, a sculptor, a performance artist, and a theoretician (and it is hard to say which of these roles he identified most strongly with), but that he also experimented with all possible materials, forms, genres, and types of art. Also remarkable is that ope…
A cultura soviética entre a revolução e o stalinismo
Este artigo apresenta algumas linhas gerais do debate sobre revolução e cultura entre 1917 e o período stalinista, com destaque para o fenômeno do realismo socialista
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Late Stalinism
This nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period—beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953—analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, the book argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia. The book provides a cultural and intellectual history of the era in wh…
Late Stalinism
Hegemony of Brotherhood
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 an…
Socialist Realism
Socialist Realism was the (only) art officially sponsored in the Soviet Union. This chapter traces how it emerged, developed and faded away along with the Soviet regime. Socialist Realism was specific and unique, as never before had an artistic movement became a focus of state and bureaucratic activity. The political servility, explicit propagandistic aims and aesthetic inferiority of this populist art gave Socialist Realism both originality and …
Art (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (17 works) · History (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Literature (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Art history (8 works) · Realism (8 works)