Author: Vsesojuznyj s-ezd sovetskich pisatelejPublisher:
ISBN: 9780853154013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Soviet Writers' Congress 1934 (Moskau)
Author: Vsesojuznyj s-ezd sovetskich pisatelejPublisher:
ISBN: 9780853154013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Tortured Words
Author: Robert Alexander BoylePublisher:
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Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Between Moscow and Baku
Author: Kathryn Douglas SchildPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 reminded many that "Soviet" and "Russian" were not synonymous, but this distinction continues to be overlooked when discussing Soviet literature. Like the Soviet Union, Soviet literature was a consciously multinational, multiethnic project. This dissertation approaches Soviet literature in its broadest sense - as a cultural field incorporating texts, institutions, theories, and practices such as writing, editing, reading, canonization, education, performance, and translation. It uses archival materials to analyze how Soviet literary institutions combined Russia's literary heritage, the doctrine of socialist realism, and nationalities policy to conceptualize the national literatures, a term used to define the literatures of the non-Russian peripheries. It then explores how such conceptions functioned in practice in the early 1930s, in both Moscow and Baku, the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan. Although the debates over national literatures started well before the Revolution, this study focuses on 1932-34 as the period when they crystallized under the leadership of the Union of Soviet Writers. It examines how the vision of the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers grew during its planning process, so that the ultimate event in 1934 was a two-week performance celebrating Soviet literature as multinational. It then looks to the Azerbaijani delegation to that Congress as an example of how non-Russian nationalities interpreted and negotiated Moscow's broad policies. Azerbaijan is a useful case study as it incorporates a changing national identity, a multilingual literary heritage, an ethnically diverse urban proletariat, the pan-Turkic movement, and issues of religious versus ethnic identity.
Problems of Soviet Literature
Author: H.G. ScottSoviet Writers' Congress 1934
Author: Vsesojuznyj Sʺezd Sovetskich Pisatelej. 1, 1934, MoskvaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Problems of soviet literature
Author: Soiuz pisatelei SSSR (1st : 1934 : Moscow)Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages :
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Problems of Soviet literature: reports and speeches at the first Soviet Writers' Congress, by A.Zhdanov, M.Gorky, N. Bukharin, K.Radek
Author: Vsesoiuznyi s"ezd pisatelei, 1st.Moscow, 1934Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
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Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934
Author: George S. N. LuckyjPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822310990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 illuminates the flowering of Ukrainian literature in the 1920s and the subsequent purge of Soviet Ukrainian writers during the following Stalinist decade. Upon its original publication in 1956, George S. N. Luckyj's book won the praise of American and English critics, but was violently attacked by Soviet critics who labeled it a "slander on the Soviet Union." In the current political environment of glasnost, the book's findings have been acknowledged and supported by Soviet scholars. Moreover, this new critical corroboration has enabled the author to discover that the 1930s purge was more brutal than was previously estimated. The new edition reissues Luckyj's critical work in light of current political developments and reflects the revision of previous findings. Luckyj originally drew on published Soviet sources and the important unpublished papers of a Soviet Ukrainian writer who defected to the West to describe how the brief literary revival in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s was abruptly halted by Communist Party controls. The present volume features a new preface, an additional chapter covering recent Soviet attitudes toward the literature of the 1920s and 1930s, and an updated bibliography.
The Stalinist Era
Author: David L. HoffmannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.
Fear and the Muse Kept Watch
Author: Andy McSmithPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620970791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin’s Russia, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch asks the question: can great art be produced in a police state? For although Josif Stalin ran one of the most oppressive regimes in world history, under him Russia also produced an outpouring of artistic works of immense and lasting power—from the poems of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam to the opera Peter and the Wolf, the film Alexander Nevsky, and the novels The Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago. For those artists visible enough for Stalin to take an interest in them, it was Stalin himself who decided whether they lived in luxury or were sent to the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the secret police, to be tortured and sometimes even executed. McSmith brings together the stories of these artists—including Isaac Babel, Boris Pasternak, Dmitri Shostakovich, and many others—revealing how they pursued their art under Stalin’s regime and often at great personal risk. It was a world in which the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose bright yellow tunic was considered a threat to public order under the tsars, struggled to make the communist authorities see the value of avant garde art; Babel publicly thanked the regime for allowing him the privilege of not writing; and Shostakovich’s career veered wildly between public disgrace and wealth and acclaim. In the tradition of Eileen Simpson’s Poets in Their Youth and Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch is an extraordinary work of historical recovery. It is also a bold exploration of the triumph of art during terrible times and a book that will stay with its readers for a long, long while.