| Description |
xi, 194 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Crosscurrents/modern critiques
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 170-178. |
| Contents |
Russian Literature, 1900-1914 -- Chekhov: The Appreciator of Irony -- Gorky: The Lower Depths of Hope -- Andreyev: The Sensationist of Despair -- Kuprin and Others -- Pre-Soviet Poets -- Soviet Literature to the Second World War -- Beginnings in a Red Dawn: Bely, Blok, Yesinin, Mayakovsky -- Control of the Arts: Commissar as Censor -- Emigre Literature: Bunin, Nabokov, and Others -- Later Gorky -- Babel, Sholokhov, Leonov -- Some Other Novelists -- Some Satirists: Ehrenburg, Ilf and Petrov, Zoshchenko -- Soviet Theater to the Second World War -- Curtain Up on the Old and the New -- Some New Kinds of Comedy -- Bulgakov: Triumph and Trouble -- Fighting Plays -- Five-Year-Plan Plays -- Other Comedies of the Thirties -- The Successes of Pogodin -- The End of a Phase -- Soviet Film: Eisenstein -- Soviet Poetry Between the Civil War and Second World War -- Tikhonov, Bedny, and Bezymensky -- Aseyev: Bemedaled Bohemian -- Bryusov and Others -- Mandelshtam: The Dilemma of an Intellectual -- Akhmatova: Tragedy of Great Talent -- Tsvetayeva: End of an Epoch -- Russia at War -- The Soviet Wartime Novel -- Soviet Wartime Drama -- Soviet Wartime Poetry -- Stalin's Death and the Time of Thaw -- The Forbidden Ones -- The Battle Against Pasternak -- The Case of Sinyavsky and Daniel -- Some Years in the Life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- The Union of Nonconformity -- Later Theater and Film -- Anatomy of Dissent -- Collective Disagreement -- Journalism of the Clandestine -- Underground Khronika -- Secret Flourishes -- Typewriter as Weapon -- Westward Exportation -- Tape Recorder as Weapon -- The Force of Continued Protest. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Parry, Albert, 1901-1992, author.
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| Added Title |
Twentieth century Russian literature |
| ISBN |
0809307030 |
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