11. “The Best in the World”: The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Transliteration x
6. Introduction xi
7. Part One: Space and Art
8. 1. Socialist Realism and the Sacralizing of Space 1
9. 2. The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles around Stalin 19
10. 3. Spatial Figures in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s 51
11. 4. “Broad Is My Motherland”: The Mother Archetype and Space in the Soviet Mass Song 77
12. 5. The Art of Totality 96
13. Part Two: Mobilizing the Soviet Subject
14. 6. All This Can Be Yours!: Soviet Commercial Advertising and the Social Construction of Space, 1928–1956 125
15. 7. The Art of Social Navigation: The Cultural Topography of the Stalin Era 163
16. 8. “But Eastward, Look, the Land Is Brighter”: Toward a Topography of Utopia in the Stalinist Musical 201
17. Part Three: The Blank Page
18. 9. To Explore or Conquer?: Mobile Perspectives on the Soviet Cultural Revolution 219
19. 10. Tabula Rasa in the North: The Soviet Arctic and Mythic Landscapes in Stalinist Popular Culture 241
20. 11. “The Best in the World”: The Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s 261
21. 12. Russo-Soviet Topoi 277
22. Contributors 307
23. Index 311