Stories of the Soviet Experience : Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams /

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Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paperno, Irina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Russian prose literature.
Intellectual life.
Autobiography.
Autobiographical memory.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
autobiography (genre)
Memoire episodique > URSS.
Autobiographie.
Autobiographies as Topic
Autobiographical memory > Soviet Union.
Russian prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Soviet Union.
URSS > Vie intellectuelle.
URSS > Histoire.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life.
Soviet Union > History.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Memoirs and Diaries Published at The End of The Soviet Epoch: An Overview
  • Publishers, Authors, Texts, Reader, Corpus
  • The Background: Memoir Writing and Historical Consciousness
  • Connecting the "I" and History
  • Revealing the Intimate
  • Building a Community
  • Writing at the End
  • Qualification: The "I" in Quotation Marks
  • Excursus: Readers Respond in LiveJournal
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Part II. Two Texts: Close Readings
  • 1. Lidiia Chukovskaia's Diary of Anna Akhmatova's Life: "Intimacy and Terror"
  • 2. The Notebooks of the Peasant Evgeniia Kiseleva: "The War Separated Us Forever"
  • Part III. Dreams of Terror: Interpretations
  • Comments on Dreams as Stories and as Sources
  • Andrei Arzhilovsky: The Peasant Raped by Stalin
  • Nikolai Bukharin Dreams of Stalin: Abraham and Isaac
  • Writers' Dreams: Mikhail Prishvin
  • Writers' Dreams: Veniamin Kaverin
  • The Dreams of Anna Akhmatova
  • A Comment on Writers' and Peasants' Theories of Dreams
  • A Philosopher's Dreams: Yakov Druskin
  • Stalin's Dream
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Russian Texts
  • Notes
  • Index.

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