The KGB'S literary archive

by Vitaly Shentalinsky

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Fifty years after the Soviet regime cracked down totally on its creative artists, the combination of perestroika and his own initiative gave Vitaly Shentalinsky the chance to find out what really happened to Stalin's writer-victims and to relaim their stolen words.

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Canonical title
The KGB'S literary archive
Original title
La parole ressuscitée dans les archives littéraires du KGB
Alternate titles
The KGB'S literary archive: the discovery of the ultimate fate of Russia's suppressed writers (Cover) (Cover); Arrested voices resurrecting the disappeared writers of the Soviet regime (American Edition) (American Edition)
Original publication date
1995 (English translation) (English translation)
People/Characters
Isaac Babel; Pavel A. Florensky; Mikhail Bulgakov; Osip Mandelstam
Blurbers
Conquest, Robert; Vernet-Straggiotti, Marie-Therese

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, History
DDC/MDS
891.7090042Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesRussian and East Slavic languagesRussian literatureHistory and criticism of Russian literature
LCC
PG2991.4 .S4813Language and LiteratureSlavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian languageSlavic. Baltic. AlbanianRussian literatureGeneral

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