Author: Brian Boeck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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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.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Author: G. Mukherjee
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
ISBN: 9788172110246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Detailed: The monograph, the first by an Indian author is presented bilingually (Russian/English) will go a long way towards better understanding of Mikhail Sholokhov. The author has essayed to interpret Sholokhov's writings which were permeated by a sense of the beauty of the universe, by a love of toiling masses and a simplicity, and by a consciousness of humanism and the more serious reflections of the people of the Soviet Union, particularly of the Cossacks. G. Mukerjee considers Sholokhov in relation to Soviet letters and ideology and emphasises on Sholokhov's views much larger than his local region or nation. He marks the high literary value of Sholokhov's chef d'oeuvre and Quiet Flows The Don and gives a profound analysis of major works of Sholokhov from Tales from the Don, Theey Fought for Their Father Land, Virgin Soil Upturned, The Science of Hatred and The Fate of a Man, and their relevance to India. The author illustrated Sholokhov's views on Gandhi as well. He has given clear image of Gandhi to Soviet readers dispelling earlier misconceptions regarding Gandhi. This book holds the triumphs and failures of the former Soviet Union to the readers and gives a subtle indication of its recent fall.
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Category : Russian imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Category : Russian imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: Library of Congress. Processing Department
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Author: Library of Congress. Processing Department
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Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Author: British Library
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Author: Boris Groys
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844678091
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.
