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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hubertus Jahn |
| ISBN: | 080143131X 9780801431319 |
| OCLC Number: | 32276400 |
| Description: | xii, 229 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Patriotism and Its Metaphors -- 1. Picturing Patriotism: The War for the Eye. The War and the Lubok: The Last Battle of an Art Form. Fairground Interlude: Raek, or Willi in the Box. Graphic Arts at War: Patriotic Cartoons and Illustrations in the Press. Patriotic Postcards: Nationalism in the Mail. Advertising Patriotism: Posters in the War -- 2. Performing Patriotism: The War on Stage. Welcome to the Big Top: German Pigs, Wrestling with Wilhelm, and Other Patriotic Circus Acts. Balalaikas, Tangos, and Patriotic Songs: The Wartime Estrada. War in the Footlights: Patriotism's Grand Exit. Melodies for the Tsar: Operetta, Opera, and Patriotic Music -- 3. Violence, Schmaltz, and Chivalry: The War in the Movies -- Conclusion: National Identity and Revolution. |
| Responsibility: | Hubertus F. Jahn. |
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Abstract:
War is always far more than just a military event, and the cultural effects of world war are massive. The Great War suffused Russian culture to an extraordinary degree. In this heavily illustrated book, Hubertus Jahn explores a variety of ways in which Russians expressed their patriotic fervor. He assembles little-known evidence from diverse sources - postcards and fairground peepshows, operettas and circuses, posters and movies - to illuminate the cultural life of the nation in the last years of the tsar. Patriotism invaded the world of entertainment and popular culture during World War I, shaping the imagination of Russians of all classes and changing with the fortunes of the nation at war. Between 1914 and 1917 cartoons of a bewhiskered kaiser gave way to caricatures of greedy speculators; the exploits of Cossack heroes faded into sentimental images of heroic nurses tending to wounded soldiers; and sensationalist movies offered an increasingly popular escape from the disasters of the eastern front. Jahn correlates these metaphoric shifts with changes in the way the Russians understood their nation; the revolutions of 1917 reflected not only social and political cleavages but also, he suggests, a crisis of national identity.
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Propaganda.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Theater and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war.
- Popular culture -- Russia.
- Culture in motion pictures.
- Eerste Wereldoorlog.
- Vaderlandsliefde.
- Nationale identiteit.
- Propaganda.
- Patriotismus
- Darstellende Kunst
- Geschichte (1914-1918)
- Druckgraphik
- Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
- Russland

