{"product_id":"staging-the-absolute-ritual-in-russias-modern-era-9781487551803","title":"Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia's Modern Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStaging the Absolute\u003c\/em\u003e argues that an array of practices and beliefs came together to define an essential aspect of Russian and Soviet culture in the twentieth century: the persistent desire to interrupt - or disrupt - history. Drawing on sources that define the nature of public rituals, the book reveals the pervasive presence of the impulse to impede history in Russia's modern era and the realization of the idea in the form of the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Seifrid analyses Soviet festivals, public displays of agitational propaganda, and urban planning, together with such modernist precursors as fin-de-si?cle and early twentieth-century projects for reviving the theatre, modernist adaptations of puppet theatre, the Faust legend and its vogue in early twentieth-century Russia, and the nineteenth-century panorama. The book reveals that what binds these otherwise disparate phenomena together is a shared impatience with history and a corresponding desire to appropriate urban space. Illuminating the deeper meanings in these revived archaic forms, \u003ci\u003eStaging the Absolute \u003c\/i\u003eshows how pervasive the interest in disrupting history was in the Russian modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Seifrid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487551803","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710545399945,"sku":"9781487551803","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_f6eb6aa1-af98-4f44-bd15-51e661368a72.jpg?v=1719538461","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/staging-the-absolute-ritual-in-russias-modern-era-9781487551803","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}