Literary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past

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A study of the cultural implications of portraits of Stalin and his era since his death in 1953.This work explores the cultural implications of prominent images in Russian thought and literature devoted to the Stalin era since the dictator's death in 1953. Author of the works discussed include some of the most important Russian writers of the past four Solzhenitsyn, Vasilii Grossman, Vladimir Voinovich, Anatolii Rybackov among others.