Geoffrey Hosking

Aleksandr Tvardovskii

Memory and Truth in the Soviet Union

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who probably changed the literary culture of the Soviet Union more than any other person in the two decades after Stalin's death.

Produktdetails

• Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press
• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 906g
• ISBN-13: 9789633867471
• ISBN-10: 9633867479
• Artikelnr.: 69955873

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Hosking OBE, FR HistSoc, was Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London from 1984-2007. He had previously taught at the Universities of Essex, Wisconsin (Madison), Cambridge and Cologne. He was BBC Reith Lecturer in 1988.

Inhaltsangabe

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Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Childhood and Youth
Chapter 2 Precarious Existence in Smolensk
Chapter 3 Creativity and Danger
Chapter 4 The Literary Terror
Chapter 5 A Correspondent at War
Chapter 6 Vasilii Tiorkin
Chapter 7 After the War
Chapter 8 Novyi mir
1950-54
Chapter 9 Achievement and Humiliation: Grossman's Stalingrad
Chapter 10 Tvardovskii's First Resignation
Chapter 11 Interregnum: Tvardovskii's Personal and Public Crisis
Chapter 12 Simonov's Novyi mir
Chapter 13 he Tragedy of Aleksandr Fadeev
Chapter 14 Tvardovskii's Return to Novyi mir
Chapter 15 Editing Novyi Mir
Chapter 16 Ivan Denisovich: The Apogee of Novyi mir
Chapter 17 The Reaction Begins
Chapter 18 Open Conflict
Chapter 19 Solzhenitsyn: Admiration and Ambivalence
Chapter 20 The Russian Problem
Chapter 21 Tvardovskii's Final Struggle
Chapter 22 The End of Tvardovskii's Novyi mir
Chapter 23 After Novyi mir
Bibliography
Index