Revolution Rekindled - The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Politizdat's Literary Turn after Stalin


• 2: Authors, Editors, and the Niches of Late Soviet Literature


• 3: Telling Revolutionary Lives: Biography, Personality, and the Limits of Genre


• 4: Investigating Revolution: Empiricism and Ethics in the Late Soviet Historical Novel


• 5: Reading Revolutionary Lives: The Interpretive Communities of Late Soviet Literature


• 6: Politizdat's Perestroika and Post-Soviet Afterlives


• Bibliography

About the author

Polly Jones is Associate Professor of Russian and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow at University College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on Soviet cultural history, including Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70 (2013) and edited volumes including Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Biography (2018) and The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era (2006).

Summary

Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle enthusiasm for the revolution, giving rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels, authored by prominent dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by these writers?

Additional text

Revolution Rekindled will complicate the picture of post-Stalinist publishing and intellectual life even for those who have studied the period closely. Jones's nuanced discussions of editorial and writerly motivations, and of responses to the series by critics and readers, present a fascinating portrait of the era.

Product details

• Authors: Polly Jones, Polly (Associate Professor of Russian Jones, Jones Polly
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198804345
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880434-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Russian, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History and Archaeology, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Russia / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet