By Right of Memory: The Life of Aleksandr Tvardovskii

by Geoffrey Hosking

Alexander Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the editor of "Novy Mir", the most prominent Soviet literary journal of the post-war 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 after Stalin's death. Geoffrey Hosking shows how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9633867479
• ISBN13: 9789633867471
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 500 Pages