The Soviet Writers Union And Its Leaders
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Author |
: Carol Any |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 488 |
Release |
: 2020-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810142763 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810142767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders by : Carol Any
Winner, University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies The Soviet Writers’ Union offered writers elite status and material luxuries in exchange for literature that championed the state. This book argues that Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin chose leaders for this crucial organization, such as Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev, who had psychological traits he could exploit. Stalin ensured their loyalty with various rewards but also with a philosophical argument calculated to assuage moral qualms, allowing them to feel they were not trading ethics for self‐interest. Employing close textual analysis of public and private documents including speeches, debate transcripts, personal letters, and diaries, Carol Any exposes the misgivings of Writers’ Union leaders as well as the arguments they constructed when faced with a cognitive dissonance. She tells a dramatic story that reveals the interdependence of literary policy, communist morality, state‐sponsored terror, party infighting, and personal psychology. This book will be an important reference for scholars of the Soviet Union as well as anyone interested in identity, the construction of culture, and the interface between art and ideology.
Author |
: Carol Any |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0810142775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780810142770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders by : Carol Any
Winner, University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies The Soviet Writers’ Union offered writers elite status and material luxuries in exchange for literature that championed the state. This book argues that Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin chose leaders for this crucial organization, such as Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev, who had psychological traits he could exploit. Stalin ensured their loyalty with various rewards but also with a philosophical argument calculated to assuage moral qualms, allowing them to feel they were not trading ethics for self‐interest. Employing close textual analysis of public and private documents including speeches, debate transcripts, personal letters, and diaries, Carol Any exposes the misgivings of Writers’ Union leaders as well as the arguments they constructed when faced with a cognitive dissonance. She tells a dramatic story that reveals the interdependence of literary policy, communist morality, state‐sponsored terror, party infighting, and personal psychology. This book will be an important reference for scholars of the Soviet Union as well as anyone interested in identity, the construction of culture, and the interface between art and ideology.
Author |
: Valentin Rasputin |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 1997-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810115750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810115751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Siberia, Siberia by : Valentin Rasputin
This work offers an account of the Russians' 400 years of experience in Siberia. Rasputin looks at the the peculiar physical and character traits of the Siberian Russian type, and at the gap between dreams and reality that have plagued Russians in Siberia.
Author |
: Duncan White |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 569 |
Release |
: 2019-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062449825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062449826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cold Warriors by : Duncan White
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their authors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and established vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by political fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield. In Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies, government officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics who helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have been higher. Drawing upon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, Cold Warriors is both a gripping saga of prose and politics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too frequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers and books can change the world.
Author |
: Stéphane Courtois |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 920 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674076087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674076082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Book of Communism by : Stéphane Courtois
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author |
: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
Publisher |
: Washington, D.C. : The Commission |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D03118586U |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6U Downloads) |
Synopsis Presidential Elections and Independence Referendums in the Baltic States, the Soviet Union and Successor States by : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: CUP Archive |
Total Pages |
: 636 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967 by :
Author |
: B. Apor |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2004-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230518216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230518214 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships by : B. Apor
The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults in art and literature, the exportation of the Stalin cult and its implantment in the communist states of Eastern Europe, and the impact which de-Stalinisation had on these cults.
Author |
: Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh |
Publisher |
: MHRA |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906540050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906540055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Yiddish in the Cold War by : Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh
Yiddish-speaking groups of Communists played a visible role in many countries, most notably in the Soviet Union, United States, France, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. This book recreates the intellectual environments of the Moscow literary journal "Sovetish Heymland", the New York newspaper "Morgn-Frayhayt" and the Warsaw newspaper "Folks-Shtime"
Author |
: Sandrine Kott |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2024-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231558297 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231558295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis A World More Equal by : Sandrine Kott
The post–World War II period is typically seen as a time of stark division, an epochal global conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But beneath the surface, the postwar era witnessed a striking degree of international cooperation. The United Nations and its agencies, as well as regional organizations, international nongovernmental organizations, and private foundations brought together actors from conflicting worlds, fostering international collaboration across the geopolitical and ideological divisions of the Cold War. Diving into the archives of these organizations and associations, Sandrine Kott provides a new account of the Cold War that foregrounds the rise of internationalism as both an ideology and a practice. She examines cooperation across boundaries in international spaces, emphasizing the role of midsized powers, including Eastern European and neutral countries. Kott highlights how the need to address global inequities became a central concern, as officials and experts argued that economic inequality imperiled the creation of a lasting peace. International organizations gave newly decolonized and “Third World” countries a platform to challenge the global distribution of power and wealth, and they encouraged transnational cooperation in causes such as human rights and women’s rights. Assessing the failure to achieve a new international economic order in the 1970s, Kott adds new perspective on the rise of neoliberalism. A truly global study of the Cold War through the lens of international organizations, A World More Equal also shows why the internationalism of this era offers resources for addressing social and global inequalities today.