Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As...
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Author: Brian J. Boeck
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Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov by Boeck, Brian J.

Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

CHF 51.71

Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

CHF 51.71
Author: Brian J. Boeck
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov's epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin's Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union's most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia's archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov's official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator's death.

Stalin's Scribe is a remarkable biography that both reinforces and clashes with our understanding of the Soviet system. It reveals a Sholokhov who is bold, uncompromising, and sympathetic--and reconciles him with the vindictive and mean-spirited man described in so many accounts of late Soviet history. Shockingly, at the height of the terror, which claimed over a million lives, Sholokhov became a member of the most minuscule subset of the Soviet Union's population--the handful of individuals whom Stalin personally intervened to save.



Author: Brian J. Boeck
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9781643134796

About the Author
Brian J. Boeck holds a PhD in Russian history from Harvard University and have taught Russian and Soviet history for over a decade at DePaul University. He is the author of Imperial Boundaries (Cambridge) and lives in Chicago, Illinois.


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