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Title Russian modernism in the memories of the survivors : the Duvakin interviews, 1967-1974 / edited by Slav N. Gratchev, Margarita Marinova, and Irina Evdokimova ; translated by Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The Revolution of the Word and Its Context / Dmitry Sporov -- Dialogue 1: With Victor Ardov on 6 August 1974. How Sergei Yesenin recited poems, about one version of his suicide, and why fame cannot be trimmed by administrative means -- Dialogue 2: With Victor Ardov on 19 August 1974. On working with Vsevolod Meyerhold and on bohemian life in Moscow in 1920s-1930s -- Dialogue 3: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 18 June 1969. On the failed duel in defence of Marina Tsvetaeva and on the life of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris -- Dialogue 4: With Roman Jakobson on 21 August 1967. On Jakobson's friendship with Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Dialogue 5: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 21 June 1969 -- On meetings with Pasternak and Babel, German captivity, the uprising on Oléron Island, and working at the United Nations.
Summary "In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin's purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors catalogues six interviews conducted by Duvakin. The interviewees talk about their most intimate life experiences and give personal accounts of their interactions with famous writers and artists such as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Marina Tsvetaeva. They offer insights into the world of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris, the uprising against the Communist government, what it was like to work at the United Nations after the Second World War, and other important aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Archival photographs, as well as hundreds of annotations to the text, are included to help readers understand the historical and cultural context of the interviews. The unique and previously unpublished materials in Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors will be of great interest to anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating period in Soviet history."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Authors, Soviet -- Interviews.
Authors, Soviet.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Artists -- Soviet Union -- Interviews.
Artists.
Soviet Union.
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Authors, Russian.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1917-1970
Subject Soviet Union -- History.
History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Interviews.
Added Author Duvakin, V. D., interviewer.
Gratchev, Slav N., editor, translator.
Evdokimova, Irina, 1976- editor.
Marinova, Margarita (Margarita D.), editor, translator.
Added Title Duvakin interviews, 1967-1974
Other Form: Print version: Russian modernism in the memories of the survivors. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 148752725X 9781487527259 (OCoLC)1240501310
ISBN 9781487527273 EPUB
1487527276 EPUB
9781487527266 electronic book
1487527268 electronic book
9781487527259 hardcover
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