Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution

"[Clark argues that] the cultural atmosphere that evolved in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and made the Great Terror of the late 1930s possible was actually created by the idealistic intellectuals and artists themselves...In developing this revisionist argument, Ms. Clark forces us to rethink the relationship of a totalitarian government to its subjects. She makes us ask the same question now being raised in Germany in connection with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II: Who were the real victims and who were the real perpetrators?...In the course of her Herculean labors, she has sifted through piles of archival material, consulted all the leading authorities, viewed scores of films, read hundreds of novels and mastered a dazzling array of historical, theatrical, linguistic and literary theories. What she has produced is a major contribution to the cultural history of this seminal period.Clark, Katerina is the author of 'Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution' with ISBN 9780674663350 and ISBN 0674663357.