TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Polly
TI  - Revolution rekindled: the writers and readers of late Soviet biography 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780191842658 (ebook) :
AV  - PG3026.R5 
U1  - 891.7090044 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Patriotic literature, Russian
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Historical fiction, Russian
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Biographical fiction, Russian
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - Historiography
N1  - This edition also issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804345.001.0001
ER  -