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1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Revolution of the Word and Its Context / Dmitry Sporov -- Dialogue 1: With Victor Ardov on 6 August 1974. How Sergei Yesenin recited poems, about one version of his suicide, and why fame cannot be trimmed by administrative means -- Dialogue 2: With Victor Ardov on 19 August 1974. On working with Vsevolod Meyerhold and on bohemian life in Moscow in 1920s-1930s -- Dialogue 3: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 18 June 1969. On the failed duel in defence of Marina Tsvetaeva and on the life of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris -- Dialogue 4: With Roman Jakobson on 21 August 1967. On Jakobson's friendship with Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Dialogue 5: With Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky on 21 June 1969 -- On meetings with Pasternak and Babel, German captivity, the uprising on Oléron Island, and working at the United Nations |
| Summary |
"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin's purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors catalogues six interviews conducted by Duvakin. The interviewees talk about their most intimate life experiences and give personal accounts of their interactions with famous writers and artists such as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Marina Tsvetaeva. They offer insights into the world of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris, the uprising against the Communist government, what it was like to work at the United Nations after the Second World War, and other important aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Archival photographs, as well as hundreds of annotations to the text, are included to help readers understand the historical and cultural context of the interviews. The unique and previously unpublished materials in Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors will be of great interest to anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating period in Soviet history."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2021) |
| Subject |
Authors, Soviet -- Interviews
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Artists -- Soviet Union -- Interviews
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Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Interviews
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
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Artists
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Authors, Russian
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Authors, Soviet
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125826
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Soviet Union -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125764
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duvakin, V. D., interviewer.
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Gratchev, Slav N., editor, translator.
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Evdokimova, Irina, 1976- editor.
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Marinova, Margarita (Margarita D.), editor, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781487527273 |
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1487527276 |
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9781487527266 |
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1487527268 |
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