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Revolution Rekindled - The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography (Hardcover)
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Revolution Rekindled - The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography (Hardcover)
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Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative
was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution,
which eventually gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical
novels (The Fiery Revolutionaries/Plamennye revoliutsionery
series), authored by many key post-Stalinist writers and published
throughout late socialism until the Soviet collapse. What new
meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers,
including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical
novelists? How did their millions of readers engage with these
highly varied texts? To what extent does this Brezhnev-era
publishing phenomenon challenge the notion of late socialism as a
time of 'stagnation', and how does it confirm it? By exploring the
complex processes of writing, editing, censorship, and reading of
late Soviet literature, Revolution Rekindled highlights the dynamic
negotiations that continued within Soviet culture well past the
apparent turning point of 1968, through to the late Gorbachev era.
It also complicates the opposition between 'official' and
underground post-Stalinist culture by showing how Soviet writers
and readers engaged with both, as they sought answers to key
questions of revolutionary history, ethics and ideology. Polly
Jones reveals the enormous breadth and vitality of the 'historical
turn' amongst the late Soviet population. Revolution Rekindled is
the first archival, oral history, and literary study of this unique
late socialist publishing experiment, from its beginnings in the
early 1960s to its collapse in the early 1990s. It draws on a wide
range of previously untapped archives, including those of the
publisher Politizdat, of Soviet institutions in charge of
propaganda, publishing, and literature, and of many individual
writers. It also uses in-depth interviews with Brezhnev-era
writers, editors, and publishers, and assesses the generic and
stylistic innovations within the series' biographies and novels.
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