Literature And Revolution In Soviet Russia 1917-1962
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This landmark scholarly symposium chronicles the turbulent relationship between literature and political ideology in Soviet Russia across nearly five decades of upheaval and transformation. Assembled by leading Cold War-era scholars, the collection presents contributions from a distinguished array of critics and intellectuals examining how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reshaped Russian literary culture, censorship, and artistic freedom through to the early 1960s. The volume argues that Soviet literature cannot be understood in isolation from the immense pressures of state control, socialist realism, and the broader currents of Stalinist and post-Stalinist politics. With rigorous academic authority, it details the fates of individual writers, movements, and ideologies that either conformed to or clashed with the Soviet literary establishment. An essential reference for students of Russian literature, Soviet history, and twentieth-century intellectual thought, the work remains a definitive account of the cultural consequences of totalitarian governance.
Author: Max Hayward And Leopold Labedz
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Oxford University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good, worn/faded no tears. Page Condition: Good, slight aging visible. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Binding appears intact and secure.
This landmark scholarly symposium chronicles the turbulent relationship between literature and political ideology in Soviet Russia across nearly five decades of upheaval and transformation. Assembled by leading Cold War-era scholars, the collection presents contributions from a distinguished array of critics and intellectuals examining how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reshaped Russian literary culture, censorship, and artistic freedom through to the early 1960s. The volume argues that Soviet literature cannot be understood in isolation from the immense pressures of state control, socialist realism, and the broader currents of Stalinist and post-Stalinist politics. With rigorous academic authority, it details the fates of individual writers, movements, and ideologies that either conformed to or clashed with the Soviet literary establishment. An essential reference for students of Russian literature, Soviet history, and twentieth-century intellectual thought, the work remains a definitive account of the cultural consequences of totalitarian governance.