Introduction: Literature and the Political Problem
1. Since 1917: A Brief History Soviet Literature Persistence of
the Past Fellow Travelers Proletarians The Stalinists Socialist
Realism The Thaw The Sixties and Seventies
2. Mayakovsky and the Left Front of Art The Suicide Note
"Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Tragedy" The Cloud "The Backbone Flute" The
Commune and the Left Front "The Bedbug" and "The Bath" Mayakovsky
as a Monument Poets of Different Camps
3. Prophets of a Brave New World The Machine and England
Olesha's Critique of the Reason Envy and Rage
4. The Intellectuals, I Serapions Boris Pilnyak: Biology and
History
5. The Intellectuals, II Isaac Babel: Horror in a Minor Key
Konstantin Fedin: The Confrontation with Europe Leonov and Katayev
Conclusion
6. The Proletarians, I The Proletcult The Blacksmith Poets Yury
Libedinsky: Communists as Human Beings Tarasov-Rodionov: "Our Own
Wives, Our Own Children" Dmitry Furmanov: An Earnest Commissar A.
S. Serafimovich: A Popular Saga
7. The Proletarians, II Fyodor Gladkov: A Literary Autodidact
Alexander Fadeyev: The Search for a New Leo Tolstoy Mikhail
Sholokhov: The Don Cossacks A Scatter of Minor Deities
Conclusion
8. The Critic Voronsky and the Pereval Group Criticism and the
Study of Literature Voronsky Pereval
9. The Levers of Control under Stalin Resistance The Purge The
Literary State
10. Zoshchenko and the Art of Satire
11. After Stalin: The First Two Thaws Pomerantsev, Panova, and
"The Guests" Ilya Ehrenburg and Alexey Tolstoy The Second Thaw The
Way of Pasternak
12. Into the Underground The Literary Parties The Trouble with
"Gosizdat": End of a Thaw Buried Treasure: Platonov andBulgakov The
Exodus into "Samizdat" and "Tamizdat": Sinyavsky
13. Solzhenitsyn and the Epic of the Camps "One Day" "The First
Circle" and "The Cancer Ward" The Gulag "The Calf and the Oak:
Dichtung and Wahrheit" Other Contributions to the Epic
14. The Surface Channel, I: The Village
15. The Surface Channel, II: Variety of Theme and Style The
City: Intelligentsia, Women, Workers The Backwoods: Ethical
Problems Other New Voices of the Sixties and Seventies World War II
Published Poets A Final Word on Socialist Realism
16. Exiles, Early and Late The Exile Experience "Young Prose"
and What Became of It Religious Quest: Maximov and Ternovsky Truth
through Obscenity: Yuz Aleshkovsky Transcendence and Tragedy:
Erofeev's Trip Poetry of the Daft: Sasha Sokolov Perversion of
Logic as Ideology: Alexander Zinoviev A Gathering of Writers
Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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