The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (review)
Journal: The Slavonic and East European Review
Year: 2013

SEER, 91, 4, OCTOBER 2013 880 work, rather than upon the more purely political writings’ (p. 7). Shaw’s visit to Stalin’s Russia — which has been the subject of a number of studies of British and European intellectual life over the years — is dealt with in the fifth and longest chapter. Inevitably, Shaw does not come out of this well; Sobolev and Wrenn show that Shaw cannot have been ignorant of the consequences of the policy of collectivization that had recently been inaugurated, and as someone