Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp xv-xxiv

Petrified Utopia

pp xxv-xxvi

Part One - Utopics

pp 1-2

1 - A Joyful Soviet Childhood: Licensed Happiness for Little Ones

pp 3-18

2 - Utopian Naturalism: The Epic Poem of Kolkhoz Happiness

pp 19-52

3 - Luxuriating in Lack: Plentitude and Consuming Happiness in Soviet Paintings and Posters, 1920s–1953

pp 53-78

4 - Tasty and Healthy: Soviet Happiness in One Book

pp 79-96

Part Two - Realities

pp 97-98

5 - ‘It's Grand to be An Orphan!’: Crafting Happy Citizens in Soviet Children's Literature of the 1920s

pp 99-114

6 - Sew Yourself Soviet: The Pleasures of Textile in the Machine Age

pp 115-132

7 - Happy Housewarming!: Moving into Khrushchev-Era Apartments

pp 133-160

8 - When We Were Happy: Remembering Soviet Holidays

pp 161-186

Part Three - Locations

pp 187-188

9 - The ‘New Moscow’ and the New ‘Happiness’: Architecture as a Nodal Point in the Stalinist System of Value

pp 189-200

10 - Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow: Tolstoi, Stalin and the Soviet Self

pp 201-216

11 - ‘But Where is Your Happiness, Alevtina Ivanovna?’: New Debates about Happiness in the Soviet Films of 1956

pp 217-238

12 - Easy on the Heart; or ‘Strength Through Joy’

pp 239-262

Notes

pp 263-300

Index

pp 301-307