Russian Literature Since the Revolution: Revised and Enlarged Edition - Softcover

Brown, Edward J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674782046 ISBN 13: 9780674782044

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1982

Synopsis

Introduction: Literature and the Political Problem 1. Since 1917: A Brief History Soviet Literature Persistence of the Past Fellow Travelers Proletarians The Stalinists Socialist Realism The Thaw The Sixties and Seventies 2. Mayakovsky and the Left Front of Art The Suicide Note Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Tragedy The Cloud "The Backbone Flute" The Commune and the Left Front The Bedbug and The Bath Mayakovsky as a Monument Poets of Different Camps 3. Prophets of a Brave New World The Machine and EnglandOlesha's Critique of the ReasonEnvy and Rage 4. The Intellectuals, I SerapionsBoris Pilnyak: Biology and History 5. The Intellectuals, II Isaac Babel: Horror in a Minor KeyKonstantin Fedin: The Confrontation with EuropeLeonov and KatayevConclusion 6. The Proletarians, I The Proletcult The Blacksmith PoetsYury Libedinsky: Communists as Human BeingsTarasov-Rodionov: "Our Own Wives, Our Own Children"Dmitry Furmanov: An Earnest CommissarA. S. Serafimovich: A Popular Saga 7. The Proletarians, II Fyodor Gladkov: A Literary AutodidactAlexander Fadeyev: The Search for a New Leo TolstoyMikhail Sholokhov: The Don CossacksA Scatter of Minor DeitiesConclusion 8. The Critic Voronsky and the Pereval Group Criticism and the Study of Literature Voronsky Pereval 9. The Levers of Control under Stalin Resistance The Purge The Literary State 10. Zoshchenko and the Art of Satire 11. After Stalin: The First Two Thaws Pomerantsev, Panova, and The Guests Ilya Ehrenburg and Alexey Tolstoy The Second Thaw The Way of Pasternak 12. Into the Underground The Literary Parties The Trouble with Gosizdat: End of a Thaw Buried Treasure: Platonov and Bulgakov The Exodus into Samizdat and Tamizdat: Sinyavsky 13. Solzhenitsyn and the Epic of the Camps One Day The First Circle and The Cancer Ward The Gulag The Calf and the Oak: Dichtung and Wahrheit Other Contributions to the Epic 14. The Surface Channel, I: The Village 15. The Surface Channel, II: Variety of

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Revised and Enlarged Edition

Synopsis

Surveys the major writers, organizations, and movements in modern Russian literature and examines the clash between writers and the state.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674782046
• ISBN 13: 9780674782044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424