| Description |
xiii, 376 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Modern war studies |
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Modern war studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364 and index. |
| Contents |
The sword and the pen : an overview of war literature -- Return from the front : the veterans dissent -- Traitors, wolves, and infernal cold : the war stories of Vasil' Bykov -- The imperium ripostes : the return of the Vozhd' -- The hinge of fate : the Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet-Russian war literature -- NKVD reports from Stalingrad, 1942-1943 : blocking detachments, deserters, executions, and morale -- The Russian war novel of the 1990s : a final reckoning? -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Order of the headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941 -- Appendix B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942 -- Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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War in literature.
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Novelists, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Veterans -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Soviet.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
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Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia -- History.
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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| ISBN |
9780700617845 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0700617841 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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