Since 1985 Russia has experienced a dramatic cultural and social revolution. Rosalind Marsh presents the first study encompassing one important aspect of this process, that is the major part which literature has played in reassessing the past, transforming public opinion, and hence in promoting political change in Russia. She provides a chronology of literary politics in this period, and analyses the content and influence of newly published literature on a variety of historical themes, including Stalin and Stalinism, Lenin, the Civil War, the February and October Revolutions and the fall of Tsarism. She explores the heated moral and political debates inspired among different sections of Russian society by the works of many authors, including Rybakov, Solzhenitsyn, Grossman, Bunin and Gorky.

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ROSALIND MARSH

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Acknowledgements - Notes - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Background: History and Literature in Contemporary Russia - The Years 1985-6: Reassessment of History Begins - The Second Phase of Glasnost: the Year 1987 - Two Key Writers: Shatrov and Rybakov - Collectivization and the Repression of the Peasantry - The Stalin Terror: Prisons and Camps - The Second World War - Lenin and Leninism - The Civil War and the Revolutionary Period 1917-21 - The February Revolution and the Provisional Government - Tsarism Reconsidered - The Rise and Fall of Literature and History in the 1990s - Conclusions - Notes and References - Index