Foreword |
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Part I The Myths and Stereotypes of Totalitarian Epoch |
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Chapter One Axiology and Anti-Utopia of Andrei Platonov |
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2 | (7) |
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Chapter Two Stereotypes of Totalitarian Age |
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9 | (6) |
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Chapter Three The Role of Literary Languages in the Soviet Linguistic Policy |
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15 | (11) |
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Chapter Four Image of Moskal in Ukrainian Texts in the 19th-20th Centuries |
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26 | (12) |
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Chapter Five Grigol Robakidze and His Novel "Die Gemordete Seele" as a Hermeneutical Clue to the Mytho-Demonic Nature of a Totalitarian State |
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38 | (12) |
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Chapter Six Creation of Lithuanian Poet Sigitas Geda: Between the Archetext and Old World Literature |
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50 | (14) |
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Chapter Seven Sayings about the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Georgia |
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64 | (7) |
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Chapter Eight De-Structuring Symbols in Conditions of Totalitarianism and Profaning the Sacral |
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71 | (5) |
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Chapter Nine Genre Modifications in the Literature of the Epoch of Totalitarianism |
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76 | (8) |
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Chapter Ten The Canon of Socialist Realism: The Baltic Example |
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84 | (14) |
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Chapter Eleven The Appearance and Development of the Northern Caucasus Russian-Language Prose in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
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98 | (5) |
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Chapter Twelve The USSR through the Eyes of the Third Reich: Nazi-Age German Literature on the Soviet Union; Truth and Invention |
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103 | (12) |
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Chapter Thirteen National Literatures in Post-Totalitarian Epoch |
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115 | (6) |
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Chapter Fourteen Forms of Anti-Religious Movement in Georgia (1921-1924) |
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121 | (5) |
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Chapter Fifteen Totalitarianism and Literature in Bulgaria: Current State of Investigation and Perspectives |
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126 | (27) |
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Chapter Sixteen Generalised Image of Totalitarianism -- Camorra |
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153 | (7) |
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Chapter Seventeen Culinary Myths of the Soviet Union |
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160 | (16) |
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Chapter Eighteen "Consumption in a Soviet Way": Transformation of the Consumption Image in the Soviet Society -- From Prohibition to Legitimization |
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176 | (10) |
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Chapter Nineteen Genre Peculiarities of Anti-Totalitarian Text |
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186 | (13) |
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Chapter Twenty Writing of Odes: A Perspective from Ukrainian Literature during Totalitarian Times |
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199 | (10) |
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Chapter Twenty-One Changing Face of Totalitarianism in Soviet Georgia |
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209 | (14) |
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Chapter Twenty-Two The Dictatorship of the Text and Incomprehensible Zatext |
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223 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Three Totalitarian and National Cultural Models as a Binary Opposition |
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235 | (8) |
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Chapter Twenty-Four The Second World War (1939-1945) and the Discourse Analysis of Narratives in Oral History |
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243 | (7) |
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Chapter Twenty-Five Politinformation as a Ritual Practice of the Soviet Life |
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250 | (14) |
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Part II Totalitarianism and Models of Alternative Thinking |
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Chapter Twenty-Six Laughter under Arrest: Jokes and Other "Funny" Genres in NKVD Investigations |
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264 | (12) |
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Chapter Twenty-Seven Totalitarianism, Carnival and Carnivalisation |
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276 | (7) |
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Chapter Twenty-Eight Collapse of a Myth -- Andre Gide about the USSR |
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283 | (8) |
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Chapter Twenty-Nine Tyrant as a Messiah (Giorgi Leonidze's Narrative Poem "Stalin's Childhood and Youth") |
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291 | (10) |
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Chapter Thirty Thomas Mann and Genesis of German Totalitarianism (Essay "Germany and the Germans") |
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301 | (9) |
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Chapter Thirty-One Making or Destroying the Labyrinth of Totalitarianism: James Joyce and His Mythical Model for Anti-Totalitarian Literary Artists |
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310 | (9) |
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Chapter Thirty-Two From Lieder to Chief |
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319 | (8) |
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Chapter Thirty-Three Totalitarianism -- Anti-Semitism in F. Gorenstein's Novel "Psalm" |
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327 | (9) |
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Part III Peculiarity of Interpretation of Alternative Text under the Conditions of Totalitarian Regime |
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Chapter Thirty-Four Literary Texts as Counter to Totalitarianism: Their Significance and Specificities |
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336 | (5) |
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Chapter Thirty-Five Extra-Linguistic Motivations for Banning Texts in the Soviet Censorship Practice |
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341 | (8) |
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Chapter Thirty-Six In the Grip of the Soviet Regime (Based on the Periodicals from the 1920s to the 1950s) |
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349 | (8) |
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Chapter Thirty-Seven Censorship and Literature in Socialist Slovenia |
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357 | (13) |
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Chapter Thirty-Eight Two Cinematic Insights into the Romanian GULAG: Nicolae Margineanu and Lucian Pintilie |
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370 | (9) |
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Chapter Thirty-Nine Rustaveli Studies in Conditions of Soviet Totalitarianism |
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379 | (8) |
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Chapter Forty The Adventures of History of Georgian Literature in the Communist Era |
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387 | (9) |
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Chapter Forty-One Rush for Freedom in Lithuanian Poetry and Music during the Soviet Times |
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396 | (21) |
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Chapter Forty-Two Tragedy of the Fate: Ahmatova's "Cleopatra" |
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417 | (6) |
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Chapter Forty-Three Guiding Lines of Akaki Bakradze's Political Conception |
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423 | (11) |
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Part IV Literary Genres of the Epoch of Totalitarianism and Cultural Paradigms |
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Chapter Forty-Four Issues in Soviet Literary Analysis: Reception of the Works of Eduardas Miezelaitis |
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434 | (9) |
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Chapter Forty-Five Travel Sketch Genre in Latvian Literature: 1940-1991 |
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443 | (8) |
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Chapter Forty-Six On Post-Soviet Interpretation of World War II in Georgian Historiography |
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451 | (11) |
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Chapter Forty-Seven The Myths: Transformations in the Literature of the 20th Century |
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462 | (8) |
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Chapter Forty-Eight Inner Freedom - A Response to Totalitarian Rule (Vladimir Svintila as a Symbol of the Era) |
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470 | (7) |
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Chapter Forty-Nine Towards a Typology of Nazi and Soviet Totalitarian Regimes |
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477 | (14) |
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Contributors |
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