Western crime fiction goes East
Subtitle: the Russian Pinkerton craze 1907-1934
By: by Boris Dralyuk
Series: Russian history and culture -- volume 11; Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) -- v. 11.
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789004233102; 9789004234895
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Books and reading; Detective and mystery stories; Russian Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; History
Table of contents: title: "As many street cops as corners": displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons; title: A terrible vengeance: the "avenger detective" in Russia; title: Slumming litterateurs and starving students: the Pinkertons' purported authors; title: The persistence of Pinkertons: reception before and after the revolution; title: The red Pinkerton's rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol; title: How the mess was mended: Marietta Shaginian and red pinkertonism; title: The novel, the film, and the kinoroman: parody and the decline of the red Pinkerton; title: The question of genre and the Pinkertons' legacy.