Russian Literature Since the Revolution: Revised and Enlarged Edition

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AuthorBrown, Edward J.
PublisherHarvard University Press
Bindingpaperback
PublishedOctober 29, 1982
EditionRev and Enl ed.
LanguageEnglish
Pages413
ISBN-100674782046
ISBN-139780674782044
Weight1.57 lb
Dimensions
H × W × L
1.06 in × 6.0 in × 9.0 in

Russian Literature Since the Revolution: Revised and Enlarged Edition

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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...

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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 England


Olesha's Critique of the Reason


Envy and Rage


4. The Intellectuals, I


Serapions


Boris Pilnyak: Biology and History


5. The Intellectuals, II


Isaac Babel: Horror in a Minor Key


Konstantin Fedin: The Confrontation with Europe


Leonov and Katayev


Conclusion


6. The Proletarians, I


The Proletcult


The Blacksmith Poets


Yury Libedinsky: Communists as Human Beings


Tarasov-Rodionov: "Our Own Wives, Our Own Children"


Dmitry Furmanov: An Earnest Commissar


A. S. Serafimovich: A Popular Saga


7. The Proletarians, II


Fyodor Gladkov: A Literary Autodidact


Alexander Fadeyev: The Search for a New Leo Tolstoy


Mikhail Sholokhov: The Don Cossacks


A Scatter of Minor Deities


Conclusion


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 Theme and Style


The City: Intelligentsia, Women, Workers


The Backwoods: Ethical Problems


Other New Voices of the Sixties and Seventies


World War II


Published Poets


A Final Word on Socialist Realism


16. Exiles, Early and Late


The Exile Experience


"Young Prose" and What Became of It


Religious Quest: Maximov and Ternovsky


Truth through Obscenity: Yuz Aleshkovsky


Transcendence and Tragedy: Erofeev's Trip


Poetry of the Daft: Sasha Sokolov


Perversion of Logic as Ideology: Alexander Zinoviev


A Gathering of Writers


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


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