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The seed-time : the russification of Nietzsche, 1890-1917. Symbolists. Philosophers. Nietzschean marxists. Futurists. Summary : the Nietzschean agenda in 1917 -- Nietzsche in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War, 1917-1921. Acpocalypse now : Bolshevik fusions of Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche. Beyond bolshevism : visions of a revolution of the spirit -- Nietzschean ideas in the period of the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-1927. Concretizing the myth : new cult, new man, new morality. New forms, new language, new politics -- Echoes of Nietzsche in Stalin's time, 1928-1953. Dionysus unleashed : the cultural revolution and the first five-year plan, 1928-1932. "Great politics" Stalin-style. Cultural revolution in the arts and sciences. Art as a lie : Nietzsche and socialist realism. Nietzsche's contributions to the theory of socialist realism. The theory implemented. The lie triumphant : Nietzsche and stalinist political culture. The Stalin cult and its complements. Cultural expressions of the will to power -- Epilogue : de-stalinization and the reemergence of Nietzsche. |
