{"product_id":"revolution-rekindled-the-writers-and-readers-of-late-soviet-biography-9780198804345","title":"Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography","description":"Towards the end of the Khrushchev era, a major Soviet initiative was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, which eventually gave rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels (\u003cem\u003eThe Fiery Revolutionaries\u003c\/em\u003e\/\u003cem\u003ePlamennye revoliutsionery\u003c\/em\u003e series), authored by many key post-Stalinist writers and published throughout late socialism until the Soviet collapse. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers, including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists? How did their millions of readers engage with these highly varied texts? To what extent does this Brezhnev-era publishing phenomenon challenge the notion of late socialism as a time of 'stagnation', and how does it confirm it? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy exploring the complex processes of writing, editing, censorship, and reading of late Soviet literature, \u003cem\u003eRevolution Rekindled\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the dynamic negotiations that continued within Soviet culture well past the apparent turning point of 1968, through to the late Gorbachev era. It also complicates the opposition between 'official' and underground post-Stalinist culture by showing how Soviet writers and readers engaged with both, as they sought answers to key questions of revolutionary history, ethics and ideology. Polly Jones reveals the enormous breadth and vitality of the 'historical turn' amongst the late Soviet population. \u003cem\u003eRevolution Rekindled\u003c\/em\u003e is the first archival, oral history, and literary study of this unique late socialist publishing experiment, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to its collapse in the early 1990s. It draws on a wide range of previously untapped archives, including those of the publisher Politizdat, of Soviet institutions in charge of propaganda, publishing, and literature, and of many individual writers. It also uses in-depth interviews with Brezhnev-era writers, editors, and publishers, and assesses the generic and stylistic innovations within the series' biographies and novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Polly Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198804345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolly Jones, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Russian, and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow, University College, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePolly Jones is Associate Professor of Russian and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow at University College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on Soviet cultural history, including \u003cem\u003eMyth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) and edited volumes including\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Biography\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and \u003cem\u003eThe Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era\u003c\/em\u003e (2006).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40625312170099,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":181.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7b30279c-fa84-4838-8cd8-bf0c46dd5ddc.jpg?v=1670944587","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/revolution-rekindled-the-writers-and-readers-of-late-soviet-biography-9780198804345","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}