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1 online resource (285 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cultural revolutions, Russia in the twentieth century
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Cultural revolutions.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 11, 2013). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : war and the hero in the Russian twentieth century - Part I. Creating heroes from chaos - Born in the crucible of war : Chapaev and his socialist realist comrades - Part II. World War II and the hero - The peasant-soldier : Alexander Tvardovsky and a new Chapaev - Eyewitnesses to heroism : Emmanuil Kazakevich and Vera Panova - Retreat : Viktor Nekrasov and the truth of the trenches - Part III. Cold War repercussions - From World War to Cold War : Tvardovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and heroism in the post-Stalin period - Antiheroes in a post-heroic age : Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, and Cold War malaise - Part IV. Chapaev and war : Russian redux - Revisiting war : Viktor Astafiev and the Boys of '24 - Revisiting Chapaev : Viktor Pelevin and Vasily Aksyonov - Afterword. |
| Summary |
"Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary trope. In this wide spanning text Brintlinger traces the war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Voinovich, Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, Viktor Astafiev, Viktor Pelevin, and Vasily Aksyonov. These authors represented official Soviet literature and underground or dissident literature. They fell into and out of favor, were exiled and returned to Russia, and died at home and abroad. Most importantly, each of these writers was touched by war and reacted to the state of war in their literary works." |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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War stories, Russian -- History and criticism.
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War stories, Russian. |
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War in literature.
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War in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9781618112033 (electronic book) |
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1618112031 (electronic book) |
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9781618116932 (electronic book) |
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1618116932 (electronic book) |
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9781618112026 (hardback) |
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1618112023 (hardback) |
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