Language and revolution : making modern political identities / edited by Igal Halfin.

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Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Liberty and Unanimity: The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French Revolution; 2 The Desacralization of the Monarchy: Rumors and 'Political Pornography' during World War I; 3 Making Cossacks Counter-Revolutionary: The Don Host and the 1918 Anti-Soviet Insurgency; 4 Modernity and the Poetics of Proletarian Discontent; 5 Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts; 6 On Being the Subjects of History: Nazis as Twentieth-Century Revolutionaries.

7 Intimacy in an Ideological Key: The Communist Case of the 1920s and 1930s8 Grigorii Aleksandrov's Volga-Volga; 9 The Symphony as Mode of Production; Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony and the End of the Romantic Narrative; 10 Regarding the Modern Body: Science, the Social and the Construction of Italian Identities; 11 Bodies of Knowledge: Physical Culture and the New Soviet Man; 12 Discourse Made Flesh: Healing and Terror in the Co.

Tenuous as the definition of historical writings may have been and much as the ancienthistorical text was unreliable, some would say even baseless, it seems that history, as aunique field of human inquiry first conceived of by the Greeks, was based on some sortof distinction between truth and fiction. All writing had to be coherent to carry meaning, but history alone was shouldered with the task of describing what truly happened. Poetrycould conjure up an endless number of possible worlds. History alone set itself the task ofreconstructing the real world, its genesis and transmutations.

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