How Life Writes the Book : Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia

How Life Writes the Book : Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia /

'A gripping, unsettling, and highly original book that turns the making of a Soviet socialist-realist classic--Azhaev's Far from Moscow--into a detective story, and sheds as strange and ambiguous a light on the Stalin era, from gulag to Writers'Union, as one could hope for. Lahusen is...

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Main Author: Lahusen, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Azhaev, Vasilĭi
Azhaev, Vasilĭi. > Daleko ot Moskvy
Azhaev, Vasiliĭ
Daleko ot Moskvy (Azhaev, Vasiliĭ)
Socialist realism in literature.
Literary Studies.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Social conditions
Socialist realism in literature
Soviet Union > Social conditions.
URSS > Conditions sociales.
Soviet Union
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. PROJECT NO. 15
  • 2. UTOPICS: THE "SECOND BAKU" AND THE "OTHER" OF PLACE
  • 3. THE BEGINNING
  • 4. CAMP FREEDOM: THE OATH; OR, ON TRANSFERENCE-LOVE
  • 5. PERSONAL FILES
  • 6. BORDERLINE I: RUBEZHANSK
  • 7. THE NOTEBOOKS OF KOMSOMOL'SK
  • 8. FAR FROM MOSCOW
  • 9. BORDERLINE II: TO MOSCOW!
  • 10. BETWEEN ENGINEERS: MORE ON TRANSFERENCE-LOVE
  • 11. A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS: FAR FROM MOSCOW AND ITS READERS
  • 12. THE SCREEN
  • 13. BORDERLINE III: THE DEATH OF THE CHEKIST
  • EPILOGUE. HOW LIFE FINISHES WRITING THE BOOK
  • APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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