The Soviet Novel
Subtitle: History As Ritual
Edition: 3 ed edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780253337030
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Russian Prose; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Literary Criticism; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Anthropology - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; 20th century; History and criticism; Russian fiction; Socialist realism in literatur; Socialist realism in literature
First sentence: Socialist Realism as such did not exist until the Revolution was at least fifteen years old, for the term was not presented to the Soviet public until 1932.