The Military Uses of Literature - Fiction and the Armed Forces in the Soviet Union

List of contents

Introduction
The Political History of Soviet Military Fiction
The Aftermath of the War
The Changing of the Guard
The Hero of Our Times
Use Your Initiative, But Follow Orders!
Wife: Unit of Issue, Each
Home Is Where the Army Sends You
Dear Ivan
The School of Socialism
Playing at War
They Shoot Intruders, Don't They?
Afghanistan
Appendix
Annotated Bibliography
Index

About the author

MARK T. HOOKER served as a linguist and Soviet/East-European area specialist with the U.S. armed forces and as a Department of Defense civilian. He is a visiting Scholar at the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hooker, Hooker Mark T.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.1996
• EAN: 9780275955632
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95563-2
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Russia, HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, military history, Warfare & defence, Russian, Warfare and defence, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form