How life writes the book : real socialism and socialist realism in Stalin's Russia /
This remarkable volume is at once a history of a book and an attempt to come to terms with the traumatic experience of a man and his generation. Thomas Lahusen was doing research on Far from Moscow, a classic socialist realist novel by a writer named Vasilii Azhaev, when he made an astonishing disco...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Project No. 15
- 2. Utopics: The "Second Baku" and the "Other" of Place
- 3. The Beginning
- 4. Camp Freedom: The Oath; or, On Transference-Love
- 5. Personal Files
- 6. Borderline I: Rubezhansk
- 7. The Notebooks of Komsomol'sk
- 8. Far from Moscow
- 9. Borderline II: To Moscow!
- 10. Between Engineers: More on Transference-Love
- 11. A Thousand and One Nights: Far from Moscow and Its Readers
- 12. The Screen
- 13. Borderline III: The Death of the Chekist
- Epilogue: How Life Finishes Writing the Book
- Appendix. Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Awards to Construction Workers of Special Projects, 30 October 1942.