The Soviet Spy Thriller: Writers, Power, and the Masses, 1938-2002

ISBN-13: 9781433191909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Duccio Colombo

Opis

It is commonly held among scholars that in the Stalin years no specific mass literature existed in the Soviet Union; what do we do, then, with Lev Ovalov's Major Pronin or with Lev Sheinin's stories, which began to appear since the mid-Thirties? What about Nikolai Shpanov's post-war million-sellers?

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - James Bond 007: Behind the Iron Curtain. Introductory Thoughts - Pioneers - Nikolai Shpanov, or the Road to Serious-mindedness - Lev Ovalov and Lev Sheinin, or the Enemy Within - Aleksandr Avdeenko, or the Empire Moves Westward - Roman Kim, or the Writer as Agent - Craftsmen - Iulian Semenov, or the Soviet Man as Undercover Agent - Ovidii Gorchakov, or the Agent as Writer - Vadim Kozhevnikov, or the Reader as Agent - Aleksandr Prokhanov: Back to the Future - Conclusions - Index.

O autorze

Graduated in 1993 at the University of Bologna; PhD in 2000 at the University of Milan; presently associate professor of Russian at the University of Palermo; author of Scrittori, in fabbrica! Una lettura del romanzo industriale sovietico, Pisa, Pacini editore, 2008.