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List of Illustrations Ix
Acknowledgments xi
Works Frequently Cited xiii
Introduction
SECTION I
The Seed-Time: The Russification of Nietzsche, 1890-1917 27
1 Symbolists 33
2 Philosophers 51
3 Nietzschean Marxists 68
4 Futurists 94
Summary: The Nietzschean Agenda in 1917 112
SECTION II
Nietzsche in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War, 1917-1921 II7
5 Apocalypse Now: Bolshevik Fusions of
Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche 125
6 Beyond Bolshevism: Visions of a Revolution of the Spirit 150
SECTION III
Nietzschean Ideas in the Period of the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-1927 173
7 Concretizing the Myth: New Cult, New Man, New Morality I83
8 New Forms, New Language, New Politics 209
SECTION IV
Echoes of Nietzsche in Stalin's Time, 1928-1953 233
Part I
Dionysus Unleashed: The Cultural Revolution and the
First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932 237
9 "Great Politics" Stalin-Style 245
10 Cultural Revolution in the Arts and Sciences 266
Part II
Art as a Lie: Nietzsche and Socialist Realism 293
11 Nietzsche's Contributions to the Theory of Socialist Realism 301
12 The Theory Implemented 325
Part Il:
The Lie Triumphant: Nietzsche and Stalinist Political Culture 35I
13 The Stalin Cult and Its Complements 372
14 Cultural Expressions of the Will to Power 395
Epilogue: De-Stalinization and the Reemergence of Nietzsche 433
Index 439