{"product_id":"the-cultural-front-black-immigrants-and-the-politics-of-race-paperback","title":"The Cultural Front: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSheila Fitzpatrick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lenin asked, \"Who will beat whom?\" (\u003ci\u003eKto kogo\u003c\/i\u003e?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in the name of the proletariat to wrest \"cultural hegemony\" from the intelligentsia, they turned culture into a battlefield in the 1920s. But was this, as Communist militants thought, a genuine class struggle between \"proletarian\" Communists and the \"bourgeois\" intelligentsia? Or was it, as the intelligentsia believed, an onslaught by the ruling Communist Party on the eternal principles of cultural autonomy and intellectual freedom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, one of the foremost historians of the Soviet Union chronicles the fierce battle on \"the cultural front\" from the October Revolution through the Stalinist 1930s. Sheila Fitzpatrick brings together ten of her essays--two previously unpublished and all revised for inclusion here--which illuminate key arenas of the prolonged struggle over cultural values and institutional control. Individual essays deal with such major issues as the Cultural Revolution, the formation of the new Stalinist elite, and socialist realism, as well as recounting colorful episodes including the uproar over Shostakovich's opera \u003ci\u003eLady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District\u003c\/i\u003e, arguments over sexual mores, and the new consumerism of the 1930s. Closely examining the cultural elites and orthodoxies that developed under Stalin, Fitzpatrick offers a provocative reinterpretation of the struggle's final outcome in which the intelligentsia, despite its loss of autonomy and the debasement of its culture, emerged as a partial victor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Fron\u003c\/i\u003et is essential reading for anyone interested in the formative history of the Soviet Union and the dynamic relationship between culture and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, one of the foremost historians of the Soviet Union chronicles the fierce battle on 'the cultural front' from the October Revolution through the Stalinist 1930s. Sheila Fitzpatrick brings together ten of her essays which illuminate key arenas of this prolonged struggle over cultural values and institutional control.'The Cultural Front' is essential reading for anyone interested in the formative history of the Soviet Union and the dynamic relationship between culture and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia, Everyday Stalinism, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStalin's Peasants\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor or coeditor of several other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.42 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751358234912,"sku":"9780801495168","price":75.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b897dc011c905434c8f3d780a0c7936f.webp?v=1779971650","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-cultural-front-black-immigrants-and-the-politics-of-race-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}