Readers of Novyi Mir Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past

Name: Readers of Novyi Mir Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past
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ISBN: 9780674072879

ISBN-10: 0674072871

ISBN-13: 9780674072879

Edition: 2013

Authors: Denis Kozlov

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In the wake of Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period of relative openness known as the Thaw. Soviet citizens took advantage of the new opportunities to meditate on the nation’s turbulent history, from the Bolshevik Revolution, to the Terror, to World War II. Perhaps the most influential of these conversations took place in and around Novyi mir (New World), the most respected literary journal in the country. In The Readers of Novyi Mir, Denis Kozlov shows how the dialogue between literature and readers during the Thaw transformed the intellectual life and political landscape of the Soviet Union.Powerful texts by writers like Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, and Ehrenburg led…

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List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 442
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



Introduction: Readers, Writers, and Soviet History



A Passion for the Printed Word: Postwar Soviet Literature



Barometer of the Epoch: Pomerantsev and the Debate on Sincerity



Naming the Social Evil: Dudintsev's Ethical Quest



Recalling the Revolution: The Pasternak Affair



Literature above Literature: Tvardovskii's Memory



Reassessing the Moral Order: Ehrenburg and the Memory of Terror



Finding New Words: Solzhenitsyn and the Experience of Terror



Discovering Human Rights: The Siniavskii-Daniel' Trial



In Search of Authenticity: The "Legends and Facts" Controversy



Last Battles: The End of Tvardovskii's Novyi mir


Epilogue: Tradition, Change, Legacies


Archives Consulted


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index