The New Life: A Day On A Collective Farm
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark of Soviet-era Russian literature, The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm by Fyodor Abramov offers a searing, unflinching portrait of rural life under the Soviet collective farming system. Drawing on a single day in the life of a collective farm, Abramov chronicles the grinding hardships, moral compromises, and quiet dignities of ordinary Russian peasants caught in the machinery of Stalinist agricultural policy. Written with the same raw, documentary honesty that electrified readers of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this novella presents a damning yet deeply human account of a society straining under ideological pressure. Abramov's prose is spare and unsparing, holding a mirror up to the contradictions of Soviet collectivisation with the authority of a writer who lived through it himself.
Author: Fyodor Abramov
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark of Soviet-era Russian literature, The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm by Fyodor Abramov offers a searing, unflinching portrait of rural life under the Soviet collective farming system. Drawing on a single day in the life of a collective farm, Abramov chronicles the grinding hardships, moral compromises, and quiet dignities of ordinary Russian peasants caught in the machinery of Stalinist agricultural policy. Written with the same raw, documentary honesty that electrified readers of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this novella presents a damning yet deeply human account of a society straining under ideological pressure. Abramov's prose is spare and unsparing, holding a mirror up to the contradictions of Soviet collectivisation with the authority of a writer who lived through it himself.