The Soviet Novel, Third Edition

History As Ritual

By: Katerina Clark

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Paperback | 1 August 2000 | Edition Number 3

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"In its sure grasp of a huge subject and in its speculative boldness, Professor Clark's study represents a major breakthrough. It sends one back to the original texts with a whole host of new questions. . . . And it also helps us to understand the place of the 'official' writer in that peculiar mixture of ideology, collective pressure, and inspiration which is the Soviet literary process." --Times Literary Supplement

"The Soviet Novel has had an enormous impact on the way Stalinist culture is studied in a range of disciplines (literature scholarship, history, cultural studies, even anthropology and political science)." --Slavic Review

"Those readers who have come to realize that history is a branch of mythology will find Clark's book a stimulating and rewarding account of Soviet mythopoesis." --American Historical Review

A dynamic account of the socialist realist novel's evolution as seen in the context of Soviet culture. A new Afterword brings the history of Socialist Realism to its end at the close of the 20th century.

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"In its sure grasp of a huge subject and in its speculative boldness, Professor Clark's study represents a major breakthrough. It sends one back to the original texts with a whole host of new questions... And it also helps us to understand the place of the official' writer in that peculiar mixture of ideology, collective pressure, and inspiration which is the Soviet literary process." --Times Literary Supplement "The Soviet Novel has had an enormous impact on the way Stalinist culture is studied in a range of disciplines (literature scholarship, history, cultural studies, even anthropology and political science)." --Slavic Review "Those readers who have come to realise that history is a branch of mythology will find Clark's book a stimulating and rewarding account of Soviet mythopoesis." --American Historical Review "It is fresh, original, cogently argued, challenging, provocative: don't miss it! ... All along the way there are countless nuggets of insight and wit ... a truly seminal book." --Russian Review" "Clark's academic study, ... is wide ranging and balanced."--Morning Star, 26 March 2001

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Preface
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Distinctive Role of Socialist Realism in Soviet Culture	p. 3
Socialist Realism before 1932
What Socialist Realism Is and What Led to Its Adoption as the Official Method of Soviet Literature	p. 27
The Positive Hero in Pre-revolutionary Fiction	p. 46
Socialist Realist Classics of the Twenties	p. 68
High Stalinist Culture
The Machine and the Garden: Literature and Metaphors for the New Society	p. 93
The Stalinist Myth of the "Great Family"	p. 114
The Sense of Reality in the Heroic Age	p. 136
An Analysis of the Conventional Soviet Novel
The Prototypical Plot	p. 159
Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual Sacrifice	p. 177
Soviet Fiction since World War II
The Postwar Stalin Period (1944-53)	p. 191
The Khrushchev Years	p. 210
Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained? Fiction since Khrushchev	p. 234
Conclusion	p. 251
The Master Plot as Exemplified in the Production Novel and Other Basic Types of Novel of the Stalin Era	p. 255
The Official Short List of Model Novels as Inferred from Speeches to Writers' Union Congresses	p. 261
Afterword: The End of Socialist Realism	p. 265
Notes	p. 287
Select Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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