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In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished while Stalinist repression intensified. What explains this coincidence of terror and celebration? Using popular media and drawing extensively on documents from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, Karen Petrone demonstrates that to dismiss Soviet celebrations as mere diversion is to lose a valuable opportunity for understanding how the Soviet system operated. As the state attempted to mobilize citizens to participate in the project to create New Soviet men and women, celebration culture became more than a means to distract a population suffering from poverty and deprivation. The planning and execution of celebrations reflected the Soviet intelligentsia's efforts to bring social and cultural enlightenment to the people. Physical culture demonstrations, celebrations of Arctic and aviation exploits, the Pushkin Centennial of 1937 and the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, and the celebration of New Year's Day were opportunities for the Soviet leadership to fuse traditional prerevolutionary values and practices with socialist ideology in an effort to educate its citizens and build support for the state and its policies. However, official celebrations were often appropriated by citizens for purposes that were unanticipated and unsanctioned by the state. Through celebrations, Soviet citizens created hybrid identities and defined their places in the emerging Stalinist hierarchy, allowing them to uphold the Soviet order while arrests and executions were rampant. This rich look at celebrations reveals the complex dialogues and negotiations between citizens and leaders in the endeavor to create Soviet culture.

In our society the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. In the modern world, celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a common reference point -- the most recent sound-bites from politicians, the details of a pop-star's wedding, divorce, or suicide. But how have people like Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bill Clinton, or Princess Diana impressed themselves so powerfully on the public mind? Do they have unique qualities that make them stand out, or are their images constructed by the media and the moguls of the entertainment industry? And what of the dark side of celebrity -- is the hunger to be in the public eye so great that people are prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it, as numerous mass-murderers and serial killers have done? In this fascinating book, Chris Rojek brings together celebrated figures from the arts, sports, politics and other spheres of public life, from O. J. Simpson and Marilyn Monroe to Hitler and David Bowie, and touches on many movements and fads, including punk, rock-and-roll, and the fashion industry. He shows the difference between ascribed celebrity, which derives from bloodline, and achieved celebrity, which follows from personal achievement. It is the difference between Princess Margaret and, say, Woody Allen. There is no parallel in history to the ubiquitous "living" form of celebrity that we experience today, which is powered by newspapers, PR departments, magazines and electronic mass-media.

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Celebrity Big Brother (UK) - Celebrity Big Brother is a British TV reality show shown on Channel Four in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run. It is based on the Big Brother series produced by Endemol and sometimes uses the same house and presenters as the non-celebrity version.

Celebrity Poker Showdown - Celebrity Poker Showdown is a celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo. It is a limited run series of celebrities playing poker, taped at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in front of a live studio audience.

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