The readers of Novyi Mir : coming to terms with the Stalinist past

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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...

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Main Author: Kozlov, Denis, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Novyĭ mir > History.
Literature and society > Soviet Union.
Reader-response criticism > Social aspects > Soviet Union.
Authors and readers > Soviet Union.
Russian periodicals > Soviet Union > History.
Russian literature > Social aspects > Soviet Union.
Terror in literature.
Terror > Soviet Union > Public opinion.
Soviet Union > History > Public opinion.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Readers, writers, and Soviet history
  • A passion for the printed word: postwar Soviet literature
  • Barometer of the epoch: Pomerantsev and the debate on sincerity
  • Naming the social evil: Dudintsev's ethical quest
  • Recalling the revolution: the Pasternak affair
  • Literature above literature: Tvardovskii's memory
  • Reassessing the moral order: Ehrenburg and the memory of the terror
  • Finding new words: Solzhenitsyn and the experience of terror
  • Discovering human rights: the Siniavskii-Daniel' trial
  • In search of authenticity: the legends and facts controversy
  • Last battles: the end of Tvardovskii's Novyi Mir
  • Epilogue: tradition, change, legacies.

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