Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study
of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary
presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th
Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a
comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and
Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin
has been portrayed by Soviet, emigre Russian, and European writers
including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn.
It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto
received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of
Sozhenitsyn's The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov's Children of
the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of
Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted
in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th
Century.
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