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Discipline Through Humiliation: Cultural Politics in Post-War Ukraine Under Stalin

Discipline Through Humiliation: Cultural Politics in Post-War Ukraine Under Stalin

Kysla, Iuliia

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $75.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 26, 2027

ISBN10: 1049808126
ISBN13: 9781049808123
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jan 26 2027
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Discipline through Humiliation examines what it meant to live and work as a non-Russian author in the post-war Soviet Union, tracing the experiences of Ukrainian writers caught up in Stalin's literary purges of the 1940s and early 1950s, the so-called Zhdanovite repressions.

Being a successful Ukrainian writer under late Stalinism was a perilous balancing act. To survive, authors had to navigate an ideological minefield - scrutinizing every line they wrote while seizing rare openings in official discourse to advance their own cultural agendas. Focusing on both writers and institutions, the book exposes complex interactions between Ukrainian literary figures and Soviet authorities as they sought to bring Ukraine into conformance with Moscow's cultural policies. It shows how the regime employed a wide array of instruments of control - from material rewards to public rituals of (self-)humiliation - to discipline writers and control the boundaries of Ukrainian cultural expression.

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