To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Gilburd, Eleonory
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Gilburd, Eleonory

To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearWinner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Cultural...
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To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Gilburd, Eleonory

To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

$117.78
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Gilburd, Eleonory

To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

$117.78
Author: Eleonory Gilburd
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
Winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Cultural Studies
Winner of the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
Winner of the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize
Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin's death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West.

At the heart of this history is a process of translation, in which Western figures took on Soviet roles: Pablo Picasso as a political rabble-rouser; Rockwell Kent as a quintessential American painter; Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway as teachers of love and courage under fire; J. D. Salinger and Giuseppe De Santis as saviors from Soviet clichés. Imported novels challenged fundamental tenets of Soviet ethics, while modernist paintings tested deep-seated notions of culture. Western films were eroticized even before viewers took their seats. The drama of cultural exchange and translation encompassed discovery as well as loss.

Eleonory Gilburd explores the pleasure, longing, humiliation, and anger that Soviet citizens felt as they found themselves in the midst of this cross-cultural encounter. The main protagonists of To See Paris and Die are small-town teachers daydreaming of faraway places, college students vicariously discovering a wider world, and factory engineers striving for self-improvement. They invested Western imports with political and personal significance, transforming foreign texts into intimate belongings.

With the end of the Soviet Union, the Soviet West disappeared from the cultural map. Gilburd's history reveals how domesticated Western imports defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, as well as its death and afterlife.

Author: Eleonory Gilburd
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 01/01/2019
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780674980716

About the Author
Gilburd, Eleonory: - Eleonory Gilburd is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
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