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Kaganovsky, Lilya Kaganovsky, Lilya Cooper, David Romberg, Kristen Sobol, Valeria 2022-05 application/pdf ru text Triumphant bowls of socialism: A cultural history of the Soviet toilet Hoppe, Nadia G. 2022-02-01 toilet grotesque Soviet Moscow Conceptualism SZ Group Ilya Kabakov 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. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115332 Copyright 2022 Nadia G. Hoppe Slavic Languages & Literature Slavic Languages & Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.