Polly Jones

Revolution Rekindled

The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle enthusiasm for the revolution, giving rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels, authored by prominent dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by these writers?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198804345
• ISBN-10: 0198804342
• Artikelnr.: 56789635

Autorenporträt

Polly Jones is Associate Professor of Russian and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow at University College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on Soviet cultural history, including Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70 (2013) and edited volumes including Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Biography (2018) and The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Politizdat's Literary Turn after Stalin
* 2: Authors, Editors, and the Niches of Late Soviet Literature
* 3: Telling Revolutionary Lives: Biography, Personality, and the
Limits of Genre
* 4: Investigating Revolution: Empiricism and Ethics in the Late Soviet
Historical Novel
* 5: Reading Revolutionary Lives: The Interpretive Communities of Late
Soviet Literature
* 6: Politizdat's Perestroika and Post-Soviet Afterlives
* Bibliography