Inside the Soviet Writers' Union (Hardcover, New edition)

This dully written, fact-choked look from the outside at the Soviet Writers' Union is unable to step back from its subjects; the Garrards have their foreheads to the glass and never take an ironic breath. But everything you wanted to know - and more - about this extremely cozy and influential piece of the Russian apparat is here: its dismal history of inquisition (writers make wonderful policemen when they're not creatively engaged: let no one rise higher than me), the daily perks, the Soviet publishing system, the dizzying array of editorial knives a poor manuscript passes under as though a dead chicken in a slaughterhouse. Gorbachev's attempts to reform the Union with glasnost and perestroika are, as elsewhere in the society, striking; as are the Garrards' tales of individual heroism when union members have (infrequently) protested some shabby treatment or other. For the most part, though, it's a book that better might have been a magazine article, hampered as it is by non-first-hand experience. (Kirkus Reviews)

The USSR's Writer's Union, a form of cultural and political organization unknown in the West, has ruled every aspect of Russian writers' private and professional lives from the time of Stalin to the present day. This book shows how the union has operated over the last five decades.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1990
Authors:	John Garrard • Carol Garrard
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-85043-260-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Political oppression & persecution > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	1-85043-260-0
Barcode:	9781850432609

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