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Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov - Couverture rigide

Boeck, Brian

 
9781681778747: Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
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ISBN 10 : 1681778742 ISBN 13 : 9781681778747
Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2019

Synopsis

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.

Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature in history. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success.

Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia’s archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov’s official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator’s death.

Stalin's Scribe is remarkable biography that both reinforces and clashes with our understanding of the Soviet system. It reveals a Sholokhov who is bold, uncompromising, and sympathetic—and reconciles him with the vindictive and mean-spirited man described in so many accounts of late Soviet history.

Shockingly, at the height of the terror, which claimed over a million lives, Sholokhov became a member of the most minuscule subset of the Soviet Union’s population—the handful of individuals whom Stalin personally intervened to save.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brian J. Boeck holds a Ph.D. in Russian history from Harvard University and have taught Russian and Soviet history for over a decade at DePaul University. He is the author of Imperial Boundaries (Cambridge) and lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Éditeur
Pegasus Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1681778742
ISBN 13 
9781681778747
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
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Personne responsable
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