The readers of Novyi Mir
Subtitle: coming to terms with the Stalinist past
By: Denis Kozlov
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780674072879
Subjects: Novyĭ mir; Authors and readers; Russian literature; Literature and society; Russian periodicals; Terror in literature; Public opinion; Terror; Reader-response criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Readers, writers, and Soviet history; title: A passion for the printed word: postwar Soviet literature; title: Barometer of the epoch: Pomerantsev and the debate on sincerity; title: Naming the social evil: Dudintsev's ethical quest; title: Recalling the revolution: the Pasternak affair; title: Literature above literature: Tvardovskii's memory; title: Reassessing the moral order: Ehrenburg and the memory of the terror; title: Finding new words: Solzhenitsyn and the experience of terror; title: Discovering human rights: the Siniavskii-Daniel' trial; title: In search of authenticity: the legends and facts controversy; title: Last battles: the end of Tvardovskii's Novyi Mir; title: Epilogue: tradition, change, legacies.