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Stalin's Scribe - Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov (Hardcover) Loot Price: R289
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Stalin's Scribe - Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov (Hardcover): Brian Boeck

Stalin's Scribe - Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov (Hardcover)

Brian Boeck

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Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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 favour 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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Imprint: Pegasusbooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2019
Authors: Brian Boeck
Dimensions: 236 x 163 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-1-68177-874-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership
Books > History > European history > General
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Books > Biography > Literary
LSN: 1-68177-874-2
Barcode: 9781681778747

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