Soviet Fiction Since Stalin

Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000562301
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Fiction since Stalin written by Rosalind J. Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, Soviet Fiction since Stalin presents a comprehensive overview of the literature of the post Stalin period in the Soviet Union. The rapid advances in science and technology in these years are reflected in the themes of many of the major novelists – Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky, Daniel and Grossman- and scientific subjects frequently offer a vehicle for the exploration of the wider socio-political, moral, and philosophical ideas. As the period advances, however, literature becomes the first medium in which to express mistrust of scientific advance, and hence, indirectly, of Soviet policy as a whole. Rosalind J. Marsh uses a broad definition of ‘science’ which enables her to cover topics ranging from de-Stalinization, nationalism, and anti- Semitism in science, to Lysenko and scientific charlatanism, the Soviet rejection of relativity theory and quantum mechanics, the atom bomb, and also such general problems as secrecy, careerism, and bureaucracy. The bulk of the book concentrates on the Khrushchev years but there is also plentiful discussion of more recent writing such as that of Zinoviev and Voinovich. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Soviet literature, Russian Literature and literature in general.

Author : Vera Sandomirsky Dunham
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822310853
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Stalin's Time written by Vera Sandomirsky Dunham and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of In Stalin's Time, which brings back into print Vera Dunham's 1976 landmark study of popular fiction in the Soviet Union during the Stalin regime, is updated to include new material by the author and a new introduction by Richard Sheldon. Dunham describes how the middle-brow or postwar establishmentarian literature of the Stalinist period was a product of a "Big Deal" intended to propagate values and establish an alliance between the regime and the middle class. Both descriptive and analytical, Dunham's complex picture of "high totalitarianism" not only reveals insights into the details of Soviet life but illuminates important theoretical questions about the role of literature in the political structure of Soviet society.

Author : Deming Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521408653
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Years of Soviet Russian Literature written by Deming Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of developments in Russian literature over the last fifteen years of the Soviet regime.

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Beyond Socialist Realism written by Geoffrey A. Hosking and published by New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Natalia Voinova
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN 13 : 3954890585
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War in Science Fiction: Soviet and American Science Fiction Films in the 1950s written by Natalia Voinova and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will compare the USSR and the United States according to their cinematic use of science fiction in the late 1950s and 1960s in order to coincide with the period of de-Stalinisation and thaw in the USSR, and late McCarthyism in the United States. The genre provides an opportunity to express the two powers' scientific stand-off through fiction, and serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of ideas and propaganda. Post-1956 marks the time when the period of de-Stalinisation officially began and science fiction saw a carefully crafted rebirth for it served as a tool that could reflect the socialist ideal and quasi-religious faith in science that was promoted by the party. Science fiction uniquely demands for an imaginative view of the future, and therefore, corresponds with the Marxist- Leninist future-oriented ideology. For this period, the themes for American science fiction are hyperbolised monsters and invasion, and reflect the fear of the otherness of the Soviet Union, and its threat on domestic ideals. These themes are reflected in movies as 'Angry Red Planet', and 'Them!'. On the other hand, Soviet science fiction movies focus on the heroic Soviet man who frequently receives calls for help from outer space, and overcomes great trials to save those not living in utopia. This storyline is represented in 'Towards a Dream', and 'The Sky is calling'. The author gives special attention to the Soviet movie 'The Sky is calling' and the subsequent redubbed American version 'Battle beyond the Sun'. Further, she addresses alterations or plot, and subtle propaganda messages in the Soviet movies 'Planet of Storms', and the Hollywood remake 'Journey to the Prehistoric Planet'.

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction written by M. Keith Booker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Bakhtin's ideas are then placed in dialogic relation to the works of several important writers of modern Russian fiction, including Vassily Aksyonov, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Andrei Bitov, and Sasha Sokolov.

Author : Rosalind Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351762028
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Dictatorship (Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin) written by Rosalind Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn's The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.

Author : Vera Sandomirsky Dunham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. Introd. by Jerry F. Hough written by Vera Sandomirsky Dunham and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vasiliĭ Grossman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Fate written by Vasiliĭ Grossman and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed in the late 1950s by its distinguished Russian author, this novel has been recognized as fiction on an epic scale: powerful, deeply moving, and devastating in its depiction of a world mutilated by war and ideological tyranny.

Author : Vera S. Dunham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296502
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Stalin's Time written by Vera S. Dunham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-10-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is the relationship between the Soviet regime and the Soviet middleclass citizen.