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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Main Author: Lahusen, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.