Cement
by Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov
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A classic of socialist realism, Cement became a model for Soviet fiction in the decades following its publication in the early 1920s. Gleb, a soldier hero, returns from the revolution to a world in transition, as demonstrated by the reorganization of the local cement factory for the massive national effort. His wife, Dasha, is now a leader of the Women's Section of the Communist Pary, an activist in a society where women are suddenly men's equals. Gleb finds that he cannot easily pick up the show more threads of their old relationship or adjust to this new social order. show lessTags
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A perfect example of Socialist Realism. What a stunning piece of crap.
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- Canonical title
- Cement
- Original title
- Цемент (Tsement) (Tsement)
- Original publication date
- 1925 (serialised in the 'thick journal' Krasnyi nov') (serialised in the 'thick journal' Krasnyi nov')
- People/Characters
- Gleb Chumalov; Dasha Chumalova; Serge; Badin
- Important events
- The New Economic Policy (NEP); Russian Civil War
- First words
- It was all as it had been at the same hour of the morning, three years ago; behind the roofs and angles of the factory the sea foamed like boiling milk in the flashing sunlight.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.7342 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Early 20th century 1917–1945
- LCC
- PG3476 .G53 .T813 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1917-1960
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- Languages
- 7 — Danish, English, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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