 | Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style Subjects: Soviet Union -- Social life and customs; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Soviet Union -- Intellectual life; Happiness -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Happiness -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Utopias -- Soviet Union -- Hi; Taken together, these essays redefine the preconceived notion of Soviet happiness as the product of official ideology imposed from above and expressed predominantly through collective experience, and provide evidence that the formation of the concept of individual happiness was not contained by the limitations of important state projects, controlled by state policies and aimed toward the creation of a new society. Marina Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian Studies at Sheffield University. |
