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In Stalin's Time: Middle Class Values in Soviet Fiction
Vera S. Dunham
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Paperback. A study of fiction in the Soviet Union during the Stalin regime. It describes how the middle-brow or postwar establishmentarian literature of the Stalinist period was a product of a "Big Deal" intended to propagate values and establish an alliance between the regime and the middle class. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSB; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 544.
This new edition of In Stalin’s Time, which brings back into print Vera Dunham’s 1976 landmark study of popular fiction in the Soviet Union during the Stalin regime, is updated to include new material by the author and a new introduction by Richard Sheldon. Dunham describes how the middle-brow or postwar establishmentarian literature of the Stalinist period was a product of a “Big Deal” intended to propagate values and establish an alliance between the regime and the middle class. Both descriptive and analytical, Dunham’s complex picture of “high totalitarianism” not only reveals insights into the details of Soviet life but ... Read more
This new edition of In Stalin’s Time, which brings back into print Vera Dunham’s 1976 landmark study of popular fiction in the Soviet Union during the Stalin regime, is updated to include new material by the author and a new introduction by Richard Sheldon. Dunham describes how the middle-brow or postwar establishmentarian literature of the Stalinist period was a product of a “Big Deal” intended to propagate values and establish an alliance between the regime and the middle class. Both descriptive and analytical, Dunham’s complex picture of “high totalitarianism” not only reveals insights into the details of Soviet life but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822310853
SKU
V9780822310853
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Reviews for In Stalin's Time: Middle Class Values in Soviet Fiction
"In Stalin's time not only provides a valuable assessment of the relation between literature and social values in the Soviet Union, it also offers another perspective of the milieu that Solzhenitsyn portrays so effectively in The First Circle" The Slavic Review In praise of the first edition: "No one could have predicted that a book which investigates in scholarly detail ... Read more