{"product_id":"russian-literature-since-the-revolution-revised-and-enlarged-edition-9780674782044","title":"Russian Literature Since the Revolution: Revised and Enlarged Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong recognized as the best and most comprehensive work on its subject  Browns fine book is now thoroughly revised and updated. It provides a comprehensive treatment of Russian literature  including underground and migr writings  from 1917 to the early 1980s.  Every stage in the evolution of Russian literature since 1917  every major author  all the important literary organizations  groups  and movements  are sharply outlined  with a wealth of often unfamiliar detail and a notable economy of means. Critical essays on Mayakovsky  Zamyatin  Olesha  Pasternak  Brodsky  Solzhenitsyn  Rasputin  Erofeev  and many others offer sophisticated formal and thematic analyses of a very large array of literary masterpieces.  The book examines and makes intelligible the persistent conflict between the writer and the state  between the literary artists urge for untrammeled self-expression and the pervasive control of intellectual activity exercised by the Soviet government. Chapters on The Levers of Control under Stalin  The First Two Thaws  Into the Underground  and Solzhenitsyn and the Epic of the Camps reveal the conditions under which Russian literature was produced in various periods and investigate the forces that drove an important segment of the literature into clandestine publication or into exile. Exiles  Early and Late deals with some of the leading figures in migr literature and examines the condition of exile as an influence on literary creation. The Surface Channel describes and analyzes a number of significant works published aboveground in the Soviet Union during the sixties and seventies. Brown abandons the old distinction between Soviet and migr literature  treating all Russian writing as part of a single stream  divided since 1917 into two currents not totally separate but subtly interrelated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647083798581,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674782046","price":45.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674782044.jpg?v=1781688276","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/russian-literature-since-the-revolution-revised-and-enlarged-edition-9780674782044","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}