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Introduction
A Working Definition of Russian Literature
Note on Translations, Quoted Materials, and Titles
1: The Role of Literature during the Cold War
The Historical and Cultural Context of the Cold War
“When night seems thickest and the earth itself an intricate absurdity”: Literature as a Reaffirmation of Life in an Increasingly Dangerous World
A Brief History (and Working Definition) of Subversive Satire
Cold War Satire: Genre, Subgenre, Mode, All of the Above, or None?
2: The Intersection of Literature and Politics during the Cold War
The Landscape of the Cold War’s “City of Words”
Fictionality and the Ultimate Purpose of Subversive Satire
The Cognitive Conception of the Cold War
Sites and Sources of Linguistic Deformation
Civil Defense: A Manhattan Project for Subversive Satirists
3: “The Bind of the Digital” and Other Oversimplified Logic
“Bad shit, to be avoided”: The Pathology of Cold War Dichotomies in the United States
“But you’re one of ours, aren’t you?”: Russian Subversions of Binary Logic
“Backwards fly, my locomotive!”: Two Moralistic Subversions of Cold War Logic
4: Cold War Critiques of Utopia
Series and Systems: The Chronic Nature of Cold War Dystopia
The Cultural Context of Cold War Utopianism
“It’s much more difficult to convince one individual of an idiotic idea than an entire people”: Undoing the Damage of Utopianism
5: Totalized Distortions and Fabrications
“Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?”: Technology, Dehumanization, and Resistance
“Peace Is Our Profession”: Science, Industry, and the Military Working Together
“Poetry is the art of subordinating facts to the imagination”: Cold War Pathology in the United States
“When life and Socialist Realist art converge”: Questioning the Story of Soviet History
Epilogue: There Is Still Time
Appendix: Time Line of Events and Publications
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire
Derek C. Maus
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