Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1 Liberty and Unanimity: The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French Revolution......Page 31
2 The Desacralization of the Monarchy: Rumors and ‘Political Pornography’ during World War I......Page 48
3 Making Cossacks Counter-Revolutionary: The Don Host and the 1918 Anti-Soviet Insurgency......Page 79
4 Modernity and the Poetics of Proletarian Discontent......Page 98
5 Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts......Page 124
6 On Being the Subjects of History: Nazis as Twentieth-Century Revolutionaries......Page 147
7 Intimacy in an Ideological Key: The Communist Case of the 1920s and 1930s......Page 167
8 Grigorii Aleksandrov’s Volga-Volga......Page 194
9 The Symphony as Mode of Production; Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony and the End of the Romantic Narrative......Page 210
10 Regarding the Modern Body: Science, the Social and the Construction of Italian Identities......Page 221
11 Bodies of Knowledge: Physical Culture and the New Soviet Man......Page 238
12 Discourse Made Flesh: Healing and Terror in the Construction of Soviet Subjectivity......Page 253
13 Death in Auschwitz as ‘Ugly Death’......Page 279
14 A French Great Man’s Last Rites: The National Funeral of Léon Gambetta and the Transfer of His Heart to the Panthéon......Page 299
15 Enshrined Oblivion: The POW Memorial Church in Bochum, Germany......Page 319
16 Varieties of Interpretation: The Holocaust in Historical Memory......Page 331
Notes on Contributors......Page 342
Index......Page 345