Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Trans. Jesse M. Savage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. ix, 574 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $65.00, hard bound.
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(115). Still, Estraikh does not engage with the findings of historians who argued that Cahan and the Forverts were often just paying lip service to socialism while leading “de facto conservative Politics” (Ehud Manor, Forward—The Jewish Daily Forward (Forverts) Newspaper: Immigrants, Socialism and Jewish Politics in New York, 1890– 1917, 2009, 106) and being “nominally socialist” (Maxine Schwartz Seller, “The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand: Sex, Class and Ethnicity in the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909,” in Dirk Hoerder, ed., Struggle a Hard Battle: Essays on Working-Class Immigrants, 1986, 268). A more critical approach would have examined the gap between rhetoric and deeds, and cases where the Forverts adopted actual conservative positions, whether explicitly or implicitly. Those criticisms notwithstanding, Estraikh’s study makes an unquestionably significant contribution to several fields. Not only is this book vital to students of Yiddish culture and Jewish history, it is also highly beneficial to future scholarship about Soviet history, the American Left, communism, and US-Soviet relations. The extent and depth of the information about numerous socialist and communist intellectuals and activists will surely inform studies in the above fields.
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D. Udovički-Selb
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 8×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1017/slr.2022.62
- Akses
- Open Access ✓