1st Edition
Aleksandr Tvardovskii Memory and Truth in the Soviet Union
By Geoffrey Hosking
Copyright 2025
506 Pages
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Central European University Press
Aleksandr Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the editor of Novyi mir, the most prominent Soviet literary journal of the postwar period until the 1970s. This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who probably changed the literary culture of the Soviet Union more than any other person in the two decades... Read more
Figures, Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1 Childhood and Youth, Chapter 2 Precarious Existence in Smolensk, Chapter 3 Creativity and Danger, Chapter 4 The Literary Terror, Chapter 5 A Correspondent at War, Chapter 6 Vasilii Tiorkin, Chapter 7 After the War, Chapter 8 Novyi mir, 1950-54, Chapter 9 Achievement and Humiliation: Grossman's Stalingrad, Chapter 10 Tvardovskii's First Resignation, Chapter 11 Interregnum: Tvardovskii's Personal and Public Crisis, Chapter 12 Simonov's Novyi mir, Chapter 13 he Tragedy of Aleksandr Fadeev, Chapter 14 Tvardovskii's Return to Novyi mir, Chapter 15 Editing Novyi Mir, Chapter 16 Ivan Denisovich: The Apogee of Novyi mir, Chapter 17 The Reaction Begins, Chapter 18 Open Conflict, Chapter 19 Solzhenitsyn: Admiration and Ambivalence, Chapter 20 The Russian Problem, Chapter 21 Tvardovskii’s Final Struggle, Chapter 22 The End of Tvardovskii’s Novyi mir, Chapter 23 After Novyi mir, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Geoffrey Hosking OBE, FR HistSoc, was Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London from 1984–2007.He had previously taught at the Universities of Essex, Wisconsin (Madison), Cambridge and Cologne.He was BBC Reith Lecturer in 1988.
