Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-91 - Hardcover

Ermolaev, Herman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847683214 ISBN 13: 9780847683215

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996

Synopsis

In the first comprehensive picture of Soviet literary censorship, Herman Ermolaev highlights the aims of censorship and its evolution during shifts in Communist Party policy. He draws on a great variety of primary and secondary sources, including over 200 literary works; the Soviet government's decrees on censorship and publishing; books and articles on censorship; political and historical writings; and personal correspondences with writers, editors, and a former high-ranking Glavlit official.

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Review:

A systematic history of Soviet Russian literature is still waiting to be written. However, when it does appear, Herman Emolaev's study of Soviet (Russian) censorship will be a key companion to it. He has produced a detailed overview of this complex phenomenon, added to it a range of important examples, and documented it all very capably. The result is a readable and usable guide to a very nasty business.--Allan Reid "The International Fiction Review "

This book is a pathbreaking attempt to trace the development and workings of Soviet literary censorship from 1917-1991. The style is witty and pungent, and the scholarship, solid and impressive.--John B. Dunlop, Stanford University

About the Author:

Herman Ermolaev is professor of Russian and Soviet literature at Princeton University. His previous books include Soviet Literary Theories, 1917-1934: The Genesis of Socialist Realism and an edited translation of Maxim Gorky's Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0847683214
• ISBN 13: 9780847683215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346