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Engineers of the Soul : The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia by Garrett, Sam;Paustovsky, Konstantin;Westerman, Frank is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The astounding and often comic story of writers fostering the tragic delusions of Stalinist Russia. frank Westerman draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as "engineers of the soul," were encouraged to sing the praises of canal and dam construction under titles such as __Energy: The Hydraulic Power Station__ and __Onward, Time!__ but their enthusiasm —spontaneous and idealistic at first —soon became an obligatory song of praise. and as these colossal waterworks led to slavery and destruction, soviet writers, such as Maxim Gorky, Isaak Babel, Konstantin Paustovsky, and Boris Pasternak, were forced to labor on in the service of a deluded totalitarian society. Combining investigative journalism with literary history, __Engineers of the Soul__ is a journey through contemporary Russia and soviet-era literature. Westerman...

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Author

Garrett, Sam;Paustovsky, Konstantin;Westerman, Frank

Publisher

Overlook;Abrams

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468305333

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Literary Fiction, Travel

Updated

2026-03-24