Jones, Polly,  1975- <br/><br/>
Revolution rekindled :  the writers and readers of late Soviet biography / 
Polly Jones. 
 - First edition. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Oxford scholarship online .
 - Oxford scholarship online. .
<br/><br/> This edition also issued in print: 2019. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, which gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels, authored by key post-Stalinist writers and published throughout late socialism until the Soviet collapse. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers, including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists? How did their millions of readers engage with these texts? To what extent does this Brezhnev-era publishing phenomenon challenge the notion of late socialism as a time of 'stagnation', and how does it confirm it? By exploring the processes of writing, editing, censorship, and reading of late Soviet literature, this text highlights the negotiations that continued within Soviet culture well past the apparent turning point of 1968, through to the late Gorbachev era. 
<br/><br/> Specialized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780191842658 (ebook) :  No price 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Patriotic literature, Russian--Themes, motives.<br/>Historical fiction, Russian--History and criticism.<br/>Biographical fiction, Russian--History and criticism.<br/>Politics and literature--History.--Soviet Union
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russian literature--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Soviet Union--Biography.<br/>Soviet Union--History--Historiography.--Revolution, 1917-1921
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PG3026.R5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>891.7090044