Author: Brian Boeck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature in history. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia’s archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov’s official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator’s death. Stalin's Scribe is remarkable biography that both reinforces and clashes with our understanding of the Soviet system. It reveals a Sholokhov who is bold, uncompromising, and sympathetic—and reconciles him with the vindictive and mean-spirited man described in so many accounts of late Soviet history. Shockingly, at the height of the terror, which claimed over a million lives, Sholokhov became a member of the most minuscule subset of the Soviet Union’s population—the handful of individuals whom Stalin personally intervened to save.
Stalin's Scribe
Author: Brian Boeck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature in history. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia’s archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov’s official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator’s death. Stalin's Scribe is remarkable biography that both reinforces and clashes with our understanding of the Soviet system. It reveals a Sholokhov who is bold, uncompromising, and sympathetic—and reconciles him with the vindictive and mean-spirited man described in so many accounts of late Soviet history. Shockingly, at the height of the terror, which claimed over a million lives, Sholokhov became a member of the most minuscule subset of the Soviet Union’s population—the handful of individuals whom Stalin personally intervened to save.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature in history. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia’s archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov’s official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator’s death. Stalin's Scribe is remarkable biography that both reinforces and clashes with our understanding of the Soviet system. It reveals a Sholokhov who is bold, uncompromising, and sympathetic—and reconciles him with the vindictive and mean-spirited man described in so many accounts of late Soviet history. Shockingly, at the height of the terror, which claimed over a million lives, Sholokhov became a member of the most minuscule subset of the Soviet Union’s population—the handful of individuals whom Stalin personally intervened to save.
Museum Normanianum
Author: Alfred Merle Norman
Publisher:
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Category : Invertebrates
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Invertebrates
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Flora of British India
Author: Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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The Pathogenesis of Boeck's Disease (sarcoidosis)
Author: Bertil von Ahn
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Category : Adrenal glands
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Category : Adrenal glands
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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An Account of the Crustacea of Norway
Author: Georg Ossian Sars
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Category : Crustacea
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Publisher:
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Category : Crustacea
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Museum Normanianum, Or A Catalogue of the Invertebrate of Europe, and the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, which are Contained in the Collection of the Rev. Canan A.M. Norman, ...
Author: Alfred Merle Norman
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Flora Capensis
Author: William T. Thiselton-Dyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108068154
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
Reissued in ten parts, originally published 1894-1933, this botanical catalogue covers over 11,500 species of plant in South Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108068154
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
Reissued in ten parts, originally published 1894-1933, this botanical catalogue covers over 11,500 species of plant in South Africa.
The Flora of British India
Author: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Flora of Tropical Africa
Author: Daniel Oliver
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Pacific Reporter
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
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