The KGB's Literary Archive

Shentalinskii, Vitalii [ Translated , Edited and Annotated By John Crowfoot ] ( with an Introduction By Robert Conquest )

ISBN 10: 1860460739 / ISBN 13: 9781860460739

Edité par Harvill Press, London, 1997

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A near fine copy of the softcover edition. Previous owner's name and location very modestly in ink at front endsheet, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The KGB's Literary Archive
• Éditeur: Harvill Press, London
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1860460739
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781860460739
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Fifty years after the Soviet regime cracked down totally on its creative artists, the combination of perestroika and his own initiative gave Vitaly Shentalinsky the chance to find out what really happened to Stalin's writer-victims and to relaim their stolen words. Shentalinsky went into the KGB's archives and brought to light the tragic stories of many great writers and a number of important works, including Bulgakov's diary, the final text of Mandelstam's lampoon on Stalin, poems prophetic of ecological disaster by Nikolay Klyuev and a previously unknown novel by Andrey Platonov.