Chapaev and his comrades : : war and the Russian literacy hero across the twentieth century / / Angela Brintlinger.
"Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales of the struggles and advances of the combat hero to become a prevailing Russian literary trope. In this wide spanning text Brintlinger traces the war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors i...
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| Superior document: | Cultural revolutions |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, Massachusetts : : Academic Studies Press,, [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural revolutions.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : war and the hero in the Russian twentieth century
- Part I. Creating heroes from chaos
- Born in the crucible of war : Chapaev and his socialist realist comrades
- Part II. World War II and the hero
- The peasant-soldier : Alexander Tvardovsky and a new Chapaev
- Eyewitnesses to heroism : Emmanuil Kazakevich and Vera Panova
- Retreat : Viktor Nekrasov and the truth of the trenches
- Part III. Cold War repercussions
- From World War to Cold War : Tvardovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich, and heroism in the post-Stalin period
- Antiheroes in a post-heroic age : Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Makanin, and Cold War malaise
- Part IV. Chapaev and war : Russian redux
- Revisiting war : Viktor Astafiev and the Boys of '24
- Revisiting Chapaev : Viktor Pelevin and Vasily Aksyonov
- Afterword.