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Chapaev and his Comrades : War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century /

Across the twentieth century, the Russian literary hero remained central to Russian fiction and frequently "battled" one enemy or another, whether on the battlefield or on a civilian front. War was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brintlinger, Angela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]
Colección:Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. CREATING HEROES FROM CHAOS
  • Chapter One. Born in the Crucible of War Chapaev and His Socialist Realist Comrades
  • Part II. WORLD WAR II AND THE HERO
  • Chapter Two. The Peasant-Soldier: Alexander Tvardovsky and a New Chapaev
  • Chapter Three. Eyewitnesses to Heroism: Emmanuil Kazakevich and Vera Panova
  • Chapter Four. Retreat: Viktor Nekrasov and the Truth of the Trenches
  • Part III. COLD WAR REPERCUSSIONS
  • Chapter Five. From World War to Cold War: Tvardovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and Heroism in the Post-Stalin Period
  • Chapter Six. Antiheroes in a Post-heroic Age: Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, and Cold War Malaise
  • Part IV. Chapaev and War: Russian Redux
  • Chapter Seven. Revisiting War: Viktor Astafiev and the Boys of '24
  • Chapter Eight. Revisiting Chapaev: Viktor Pelevin and Vasily Aksyonov
  • Afterword
  • References
  • Index