The author considers how Soviet novelists and poets in the 1920s dealt with the Leninist notion that ethics is entirely utilitarian and relative; analyzes the official glorification of the gulag in the early 1930s in such works as White Sea Canal, a composite volume by 36 famous authors praising the use of slave labor; and examines why the subject of the camps became taboo from 1937, to the Khrushchevian thaw of the early 1960s. Tolczyk also provides a masterful account of the problem posed for Soviet censors by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and shows how the failure of the Soviet regime to come to terms with the ethical legacy of the gulag signaled the decline of the totalitarian project.
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The author considers how Soviet novelists and poets in the 1920s dealt with the Leninist notion that ethics is entirely utilitarian and relative; analyzes the official glorification of the gulag in the early 1930s in such works as White Sea Canal, a composite volume by 36 famous authors praising the use of slave labor; and examines why the subject of the camps became taboo from 1937, to the Khrushchevian thaw of the early 1960s. Tolczyk also provides a masterful account of the problem posed for Soviet censors by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and shows how the failure of the Soviet regime to come to terms with the ethical legacy of the gulag signaled the decline of the totalitarian project.
Imprint | Yale University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Russian Literature and Thought Series |
Release date | September 1999 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | September 1999 |
Authors | Dariusz Tolczyk |
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Cloth over boards |
Pages | 384 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-300-06608-1 |
Barcode | 9780300066081 |
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LSN | 0-300-06608-2 |