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This book examines the work of five Soviet prose writers - Olesha, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and Vaginov - in the light of the carnivalesque elements of Russian popular culture.
Preface - Introduction: Carnival and Cultural Politics - PART 1: CARNIVAL AND THE RUSSIAN LITERARY INTELLIGENTSIA - Literary Engagement with Urban Popular Culture: Blok's Barazahyuk and Bely's Ilemepoypz - Revolutionizing Social Life From a Base in Art: The Avant-Garde and Mass Culture 1917-1928 - Cultural Cleavage and the Soviet Modernist Novel - PART 2: CARNIVAL AND THE SOVIET MODERNIST NOVEL - The Festive Revolutions of Yurii Olesha - Carnivalization and Populism in the Central Work of Andrei Platonov - Daniil Kharms, the Menippea and the 'Medieval' Grotesque - Bulgakov's Master and Margarita and the Devil's Carnival - A Note on Vaginov: The Novel as Compensatory Realm - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index