This text examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of sources - Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports and early Soviet ventures into popular science - the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupations with crime, disease and, especially, sex. He devotes special care to ...
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This text examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of sources - Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports and early Soviet ventures into popular science - the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupations with crime, disease and, especially, sex. He devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts.
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