The Radical Utopianism of the Soviet Twenties I: Words

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This is the first in the proposed two-panel series on “The Radical Utopianism of the Soviet Twenties” that looks to examine the emancipatory ideas and pathos in the early Soviet Union before the Stalinist conservative turn. Bringing together works and theories that invented and promoted new radical forms of historical and social imagination, both panels seek to bring them into conversations with the social critique of today. The focus of the first panel is on historical narratives and literary theories.

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Ekaterina Kulinicheva, Northwestern U

Papers

• Bolshevik Utopia and Its Instinctive Superhero - Anna Yu. Krylova, Duke U

• Red against Empire: Bolshevik Historians and a New Past for the Cossacks - Joseph Kellner, U of Georgia

• Literature as Violence: The Works of Russian Formalism - Yulia Kim, Columbia U

• All That is Literature Melts into Non-Literature: The Radical Relativism and Utopian Evolution of Russian Formalism - Lidia Tripiccione, Princeton U

Discussant

• Yvonne Helen Howell, U of Richmond