| Edition |
2d rev. ed. |
| Description |
viii, 437 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Transition -- Sergey Essenin: the confused peasant -- Vladimir Mayakovsky: the poet of the revolution -- Prolecult -- NEP and the 'twenties -- Boris Pilnyak: the untimely symbolist -- Isaac babel: the romantic storyteller -- Vsevolod Ivanov: the exuberant Siberian -- Evgeny Zamyatin: the ironic dissident -- Mikhail Zoshchenko: the condemned humorist -- Serapion brethren, The pass, and The Oberiuts -- Mikhail Prishvin: the nature lover -- Soviet romantics: from Grin, Paustovsky, and Olesha to Tikhonov and Bagritsky -- Konstantin Fedin: the traditional novelist -- Alexey Tolstoy: the master of the anecdote -- From the five-year plan to socialist realism -- Literature of communist persuasion: from Furmanov to Ostrovsky -- Mikhail Sholokhov: the epic narrator -- Leonid Leonov: the psychological novelist -- Ilya Ehrenburg: the master journalist -- Boris Pasternak: the voice of the other Russia -- Era of stabilization and dictatorship -- Fate of poets: Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetayeva -- Historical novel -- Pre-war years -- War literature -- Aftermath of war: the era of "Zhdanovism" -- Thaw -- Unstable equilibrium -- Posthumous revivals: Bulgakov, Platonov, Zabolotsky -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: the great challenger -- Samizdat: the underground press -- Newcomers -- Fluctuations and trials -- Third emigration. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Soviet literature -- History and criticism.
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Soviet literature. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Slonim, Marc, 1894-1976. Soviet Russian literature. 2d rev. ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1977 (OCoLC)557839900 |
| ISBN |
0195021517 : $15.00 |
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9780195021516 |
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