Triumphant bowls of socialism: A cultural history of the Soviet toilet

This dissertation traces the role of the toilet in Soviet art, film, and literature from the 1917 Russian Revolution through the end of the twentieth century. It analyzes the toilet as art object, as trope, and as metaphor in order to identify the particularities of Russian artistic and literary movements throughout the twentieth century and also to examine how they are informed by narratives of the body. The toilet – unique in the universality of its need and its liminality between private and public – becomes a symbolic means to understand how the literal and metaphorical "mess" of the human body does or does not conform to the real-life transformation of interior and exterior spaces.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Slavic Languages & Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2022

Author dc:creator

• Hoppe, Nadia G.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kaganovsky, Lilya
• Cooper, David
• Romberg, Kristen
• Sobol, Valeria

• toilet
• grotesque
• Soviet
• Moscow Conceptualism
• SZ Group
• Ilya Kabakov

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2022 Nadia G. Hoppe

Language dc:language

ru, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115332

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/115332