The Last Years of Soviet Russian Literature
Subtitle: Prose Fiction 19751991
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780521408653
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Russian fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Literary Criticism; Russia; Reference; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism & Collections / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism-Reference; Russian fiction--20th century--History and cr; Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: In an article published in 1991, the critic Sergei Chuprinin called the leadership of the Union of Soviet Writers a literary "general staff" whose function had been to "plan" and "command" the production of literature.