Trauma and Truth - Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen wars were not. Trauma and Truth examines key works about them by contemporary Russian-language authors, provides suggestions for teaching these challenging texts, and concludes with a discussion of what this trauma might mean for Russia today.

List of contents

Introduction
The Structure of This Book
A Note on Transliteration and Citation
1. A Brief Historical Background
2. The Literature of Trauma
3. Anna Politkovskaya: The Martyr of Russian Journalism
4. Mikail Eldin: Rebel with a Cause
5. Arkady Babchenko: "The Motherland will Abandon You, Son. Always"
6. Zakhar Prilepin: The Warrior-Bard of Russian Patriotism
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Elena Pedigo Clark received a BA in International Studies from UNC-Charlotte, an MA in Russian Translation from Columbia University, and a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently Assistant Professor of Russian at Wake Forest University.

Summary

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen wars were not. Trauma and Truth examines key works about them by contemporary Russian-language authors, provides suggestions for teaching these challenging texts, and concludes with a discussion of what this trauma might mean for Russia today.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Pedigo Clark
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781644694268
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-426-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; FICTION / War & Military, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Military / General, War & combat fiction, War Crimes, War and defence operations, War & defence operations, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Theory of warfare and military science, Chechen Republic (Chechnya), Chechnya