Handbook of Russian Literature

Handbook of Russian Literature
Author: Victor Terras
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300048681

Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays

A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s

A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315492717

The Stalin era has been less accessible to researchers than either the preceding decade or the postwar era. The basic problem is that during the Stalin years censorship restricted the collection and dissemination of information (and introduced bias and distortion into the statistics that were published), while in the post-Stalin years access to archives and libraries remained tightly controlled. Thus it is not surprising that one of the main manifestations of glasnost has been the effort to open up records of the 1930s. In this volume Western and Soviet specialists detail the untapped potential of sources on this period of Soviet social history and also the hidden traps that abound. The full range of sources is covered, from memoirs to official documents, from city directories to computerized data bases.

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Author: Jonathan Smele
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2006-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441119922

The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. It is also somewhat inevitably one that has generated a huge flow of literature in the decades that have passed since the events themselves. However, until now, historians of the revolution have had no dedicated bibliography of the period and little claim to bibliographical control over the literature. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921offers for the first time a comprehensive bibliographical guide to this crucial and fascinating period of history. The Bibliography focuses on the key years of 1917 to 1921, starting with the February Revolution of 1917 and concluding with the 10th Party Congress of March 1921, and covers all the key events of the intervening years. As such it identifies these crucial years as something more than simply the creation of a communist state.