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Annotation Developed as a reader for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduates, From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at this level. These approaches range from critical- theoretical articles, cultural and historical analyses, literary manifestos and declarations of literary aesthetics, memoirs of revolutionary terrorism and arrests by the NKVD, political denunciations and literary vignettes capturing the spirit of its particular time in a nutshell. The voices of this polyphonic reader are diverse: Briusov, Savinkov, Ivanov-Razumnik, Kollontai, Tsvetaeva, Shklovsky, Olesha, Zoshchenko, Zhdanov, Grossman, Evtushenko and others. The range of specialists on Russian culture represented here is equally broad: Clark, Erlich, Falen, Grossman, Nilsson, Peace, Poznansky, Siniavskii, Volkov and others. Together they evoke and illuminate a complex and tragic era Section One. Russian Culture before the October Revolution -- -- -- Historical-Cultural Contexts -- -- "Father Gapon and the St. Petersburg Massacre of 1905," from The Road to Bloody Sunday / Walter sablinsky -- "The Assassination of Grand Duke Servei," from Memoirs of a Terrorist / Boris Savinkov -- -- Modernist Views on Art in Essays and Manifestos, Criticism -- -- "Keys to the Mysteries," from The Russian Symbolists / Valerii Briusov -- "Two Tendencies of Contemporary Lyric Poetry," from The Silver Age of Russian Culture / Viktor Zhirmunskii -- "Slap in the Face of Public Taste," from Words in Revolution : Russian Futurist Manifestoes, 1912-1928 / David Burliuk, Aleksandr Kruchenykh, Vladimir Maiakovskii, Viktor Khlebnikov -- "Declaration of Transrational Language," from Words in Revolution : Russian Futurist Manifestoes, 1912-1928 / Aleksandr Kruchenykh -- "The Cherry Orchard," from Chekhov : A Study of the Four Major Plays / Richard Peace -- "'The Marble Bust' and Briusov's Vision of Art," from Depictions : Slavic Studies in the Narrative and Visual Arts / Joan Delaney Grossman -- -- Vignettes -- -- "The Marble Bust : A Tramp's Story," from The Republic of the Southern Cross and other Stories / Valerii Briusov -- "The Stranger," from Modern Russian Poetry / Aleksandr Blok -- "When in a Suicidal Anguish," from Modern Russian Poetry / Anna Akhmatova -- "The Lost Streetcar," from Modern Russian Poetry / Nikolai Gumilev -- -- -- Section Two. From Civil War to Stalinism via NEP -- -- -- Everyday Life : Reality and Dreams -- -- "Attic Life," from Earthly Signs : Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 / Marina Tsvetaeva -- "Make Way for Winged Eros : A Letter to Working Youth. Love as a Socio-psychological Factor," from A Great Love : Selected Writings / Aleksandr Kollontai -- "The New Way of Life," from Soviet Civilization : A Cultural History / Andrei Siniavskii -- "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters," from A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin / Evgenii Zamiatin -- -- Literary Criticism -- -- "Zamyatin's WE, the Proletarian Poets and Bogdanov's Red Star," from The Ardis Anthology of Russian Futurism / Kathleen Lewis and Harry Weber -- "Bright Hopes and Dark Insights : Vision and Blindness as Cognition Tropes in Babels' Red Cavalry," from For SK, In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky / Irene Masing-Delic -- "Bulgakov's Early Tragedy of the Scientist-Creator : An Interpretation of The Heart of a Dog," from Slavic and East European Journal / Diana L. Burgin -- "The Masks of Mikhail Zoshchenko," from Literature, Culture, and Society in the Modern Age, in Honor of Joseph Frank, Part II / Victor Erlich -- "Through the Wrong End of Binoculars : An Introduction to Iurii Olesha," from Scando-Slavica / Nils Ȧke Nilsson -- "Two Plays," from Mayakovsky. A Poet in the Revolution / Edward J. Brown -- -- Vignettes -- -- "Brothers, Let's Glorify the Twilight of Freedom," from Modern Russian Poetry / Osip Mandel'shtam -- "A Dogged Sense of Smell," from The Galosh and Other Stories / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- "Nervous People," from The Galosh and Other Stories / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- "Brooklyn Bridge," from Modern Russian Poetry / Vladimir Maiakovskii -- -- -- Section Three. The Stalinist Period and World War II -- -- -- Memoirs -- -- "1930 : How Meierkhol'd Put on My Play," from A Book of Farewell / Iurii Olesha -- From The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik / Ivanov-Razumnik -- From At His Side : The Last Years of Isaac Babel / Antonina Prozhkova -- -- Cultural Contexts -- -- "The Mystery and the Magic of Stalin's Power," from Soviet Civilization : A Cultural History / Andrei Siniavskii -- "The Tower of Babel Undone in a Soviet Pentecost : A Linguistic Myth of the First Five-Year Plan," from Slavic and East European Journal / Daniel E. Collins -- "Tchaikovsky as Communist Icon," from For SK, In Celebration of the Life and Career of Simon Karlinsky / Alexander Poznansky -- "Power Relationships and Authorship," from Women's Works in Stalin's Time, On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam / Beth Holmgren -- "Soviet Labor Camps : A Brief History," from Return from the Archipelago : Narratives of Gulag Survivors / Leona Toker -- -- Socialist Realism -- -- "Soviet Literature : Address Delivered to the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, August 17, 1934" from Maxim Gorky on Literature / Maksim Gor'kii -- "Socialist Realism in Soviet Literature," from The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature / Katerina Clark -- "The Typology of the Nonexistent, from The Total Art of Stalinism / Boris Groys -- -- War Diary -- -- Excerpts from A Writer at War : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 / Vasilii Grossman -- -- Vignettes -- -- "We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange," from Modern Russian Poetry / Osip Mandel'shtam -- "Russia, Our Happiness. Russia, Our Light," from Modern Russian Poetry / Georgii Ivanov -- "This Thing Called Homesickness! A Fable," from Modern Russian Poetry / Marina Tsvetaeva -- "No Matter How the Soviet Tinsel Glitters," from Modern Russian Poetry / Vladimir Nabokov -- "Song About Our Motherland," from Modern Russian Poetry / Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach -- "A Word to Comrade Stalin," from Modern Russian Poetry / Mikhail Isakovskii -- -- -- Epilogue : After WWII and after Stalin -- -- -- A Denunciation -- -- "The Central Committee Resolution on the Journals Zvezda and Leningrad," from The Central Committee Resolution and Zhdanov's Speech on the Journals Zvezda and Leningrad / Andrei Zhdanov -- -- Memoir -- -- From Yevtushenko's Reader : The Spirit of Elbe : A Precocious Autobiography : Poems / Evgenii Evtushenko.
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