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050 00 $aPG3476.A98$bZ77 1997
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100 1 $aLahusen, Thomas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82238593
245 10 $aHow life writes the book :$breal socialism and socialist realism in Stalin's Russia /$cThomas Lahusen.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c1997.
300 $axii, 247 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-242) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tProject No. 15 --$g2.$tUtopics: The "Second Baku" and the "Other" of Place --$g3.$tThe Beginning --$g4.$tCamp Freedom: The Oath; or, On Transference-Love --$g5.$tPersonal Files --$g6.$tBorderline I: Rubezhansk --$g7.$tThe Notebooks of Komsomol'sk --$g8.$tFar from Moscow --$g9.$tBorderline II: To Moscow! --$g10.$tBetween Engineers: More on Transference-Love --$g11.$tA Thousand and One Nights: Far from Moscow and Its Readers --$g12.$tThe Screen --$g13.$tBorderline III: The Death of the Chekist --$tEpilogue: How Life Finishes Writing the Book --$gAppendix.$tDecree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Awards to Construction Workers of Special Projects, 30 October 1942.
520 $aThis 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 discovery. Azhaev had assembled an extensive personal archive integrating his personal history with the political history of his time.
520 8 $aDrawing on the archive, Lahusen reconstructs the genesis, writing, reworking, and reception of the Stalin Prize novel. He leads us from a forced labor camp to the highest reaches of the Soviet literary bureaucracy and back again, in the process helping us better to understand the failure of the bold Soviet effort to integrate literature and life, utopia and reality.
520 8 $aBlending historical analysis, fiction, biography, and even autobiography, Lahusen gives us an unrivaled picture of the vicissitudes of literature and life in Stalin's Russia. The volume includes an array of rare illustrations depicting moments in Azhaev's life and that of his generation. The result is a book that frames in new and provocative ways the questions that continue to baffle and terrify anyone who seriously contemplates the Stalinist era.
600 10 $aAzhaev, Vasiliĭ.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85231717
600 10 $aAzhaev, Vasiliĭ.$tDaleko ot Moskvy.
650 0 $aSocialist realism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124148
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125852
852 00 $bglx$hPG3476.A98$iZ77 1997