Readers of Novyi Mir - Coming to Terms With the Stalinist Past

Informationen zum Autor Denis Kozlov is Assistant Professor of History at Dalhousie University. Klappentext In the ¿Thaw¿ following Stalin¿s death, probing conversations about the nation¿s violent past took place in the literary journal Novyi mir (New World). Readers¿ letters reveal that discussion of the Terror was central to intellectual and political life during the USSR¿s last decades. Denis Kozlov shows how minds change, even in a closed society. Zusammenfassung In the “Thaw” following Stalin’s death, probing conversations about the nation’s violent past took place in the literary journal Novyi mir (New World). Readers’ letters reveal that discussion of the Terror was central to intellectual and political life during the USSR’s last decades. Denis Kozlov shows how minds change, even in a closed society.

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• Authors: Denis Kozlov, Kozlov Denis
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2013
• EAN: 9780674072879
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07287-9
• No. of pages: 442
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Russian, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General