Rolf Hellebust is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Studies at the University of Calgary
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
vii
PREFACE
ix
INTRODUCTION
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1. A SPECIAL MATERIAL: The Meaning of Metal Imagery
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Tampering with Nature
The Perfection of Metals
Sinews, Jaws, Will
Kaiser Wilhelm with Hooves
What Is a Revolution Like?
The Bolshevik Obsession
Flesh to Metal
The Alchemy of Revolution ...
... and Soviet Literature
2. FORGING THE FUTURE: Proletarian Poetry and
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Revolutionary Transformation
We Are Smiths
A Higher Reality
Emperor and Revolutionary
The New Yevgeny
Very Serious
The Apogee of Metallized Flesh
Iron Demon of the Age
Gastev's Echo
The Mass-Man New, Improved ...
... and Immortal
Beyond the Proletarians
Beyond Literature
3. ANVIL TO BLAST FURNACE: Metal Imagery in Socialist
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Realism
Reality in Its Revolutionary Development
A Couple of Classics
On the Front Lines of Labor
What Iron Jaw?
"Our Country Can and Must Become Metallic"
The King's Two Bodies What's in a Name?
Dynamism/Stasis
An Anvil Chorus
4. THE METAPHOR REALIZED: Fellow Travelers and Thereafter
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Metal and Glass
The Orating Heart
Machines
Whose Machines?
Cozy Locomotives
The Greatest Proletarian Writer
Abstract/Concrete
Lots of Things Break!
After the Steel Age
The New Magnitka
Where Infantry Can't Pass
NTR
Death of a Dream
5. THE BEGINNING AND END OF HISTORY: Metallization and Myth
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The Cult of Technology
The Cult of the Body
Grotesques-Good and Bad
Labor as Catalyst
A Mere Appendage
Individual/Collective
Engineer Heroes
Suffering
We Don't Want to Be Beaten
Death and Rebirth
Burial
Resanctification
NOTES
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WORKS CITED
201
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INDEX
217
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