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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Glyn Salton-Cox This essay examines the English Communist novelist, Edward Upward (1903–2009) in a hitherto unexplored comparative frame. Until recently, Upward's authorship was largely dismissed as formally uninspired and dogmatically “Stalinist,” the work, as Samuel Hynes put it, of “a gifted man...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 2004
......'” Karta: Nezavisimyi istoricheskii zhurnal (Riazan) 1 ( 1993 ): 4 -5. Pinatel, Jean. Le phénomène criminel . Paris: MA Editions, 1987 . Pohl, J. Otto. The Stalinist Penal System. A Statistical Study of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953 . London: McFarland & Company, 1997...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 456–459.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and scribbled notes Feffer was able to communicate the fact of his imprisonment and likely execution. While Robeson protested this by singing Yiddish songs at a Leningrad concert soon after —​a jab at Stalinist orthodoxy at a moment when Yiddish periodicals, schools, and book publications were being...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 453–456.
Published: 01 December 2016
... at Stalinist orthodoxy at a moment when Yiddish periodicals, schools, and book publications were being liquidated or discontinued —​he denied the existence of Soviet anti-Semitism on his return to the United States, “maintaining the party line over all other considerations” (178). In many ways...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of justice, revolt, and individuality; it may be that weaving a Joban thread deep within the fabric of his poem allowed Pushkin to simultaneously explore and conceal these subversive ideas within his work. (207) During the Stalinist era, what Megan Swift calls “an astonishingly sanitized and bland...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-century mixed-race poet Pushkin. Inaugurated in 1935, the subway system was the Stalinist pinnacle of technological modernity and urban planning. However, it also manifested the Soviet internationalist project in its very material foundations as internal minorities from Siberia, the Caucasus...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 63–89.
Published: 01 January 2007
... of Stalinist repression. A substantially different era in Russo-Georgian literary relations began in the 1930s, a period better known to us precisely because of its widely publicized state patronage, coinciding with the bureaucratization of cultural life—the lasting legacy of the first Congress of Soviet...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
... David . National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2002 . Print . Bukhari Ahmad Shah ‘Patras.’ “Tamhid.” Rashid , Iran 7 – 20 . Print . Cohn Bernard S . “The Command of Language...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 153–171.
Published: 01 June 2023
... after his death in 1963, depicts the fluid and hopeful Comintern period of twenty to forty years earlier, before Stalinist isolationism and xenophobia overpowered the cosmopolitan urges of the early communist movement. But the other three novels, set during the Cold War, depict a more cynical...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 283–301.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in 1957 the Stalinist- style show trials designed to root out those considered disloyal to the new nation, including her publisher friend Walter Janka (175). Furthermore, Seghers’s major postwar novels — ​Die Entscheidung (The Decision) (1959) and Das Vertrauen (Trust) (1968for which she began...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., the music of Radio Moscow magically folds the struggle for black freedom into a Soviet-centered revo- lution. That Grebner’s African American characters are effectively drafted into the Red Army, even as they maintain their particularity, should remind us that the Soviet 1930s was a time of Stalinist...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 141–154.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-Stalinist and non-white Marxism, or “Marxism with Chinese charac- teristics,” Maoism had been widely considered an answer to Western imperialism and capitalism for Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Harding; Fiszman; Rothwell) at Paris ’68 (Fields; Fejto; Bourg), and for African and Asian Americans...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 315–332.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of utopia as multilaterally imagined and as an ongoing radical difference from itself, we now entertain utopia as the uni- polar uniperspectival valorization of the temporality of “techno-capital.” If the creation of violent dystopias during times when marxism-communism degener- ated into Stalinist...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 78–81.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., is that of Stalinist/Soviet culture as a museum: not merely a repository, but a mech- anism that neutralizes both conflicting imperatives of revolutionary culture, destruction and construction, leaving room only for those texts and people who are a priori “classics.” The State Writer makes for a lively read...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 81–84.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., is that of Stalinist/Soviet culture as a museum: not merely a repository, but a mech- anism that neutralizes both conflicting imperatives of revolutionary culture, destruction and construction, leaving room only for those texts and people who are a priori “classics.” The State Writer makes for a lively read...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 84–86.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., is that of Stalinist/Soviet culture as a museum: not merely a repository, but a mech- anism that neutralizes both conflicting imperatives of revolutionary culture, destruction and construction, leaving room only for those texts and people who are a priori “classics.” The State Writer makes for a lively read...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., is that of Stalinist/Soviet culture as a museum: not merely a repository, but a mech- anism that neutralizes both conflicting imperatives of revolutionary culture, destruction and construction, leaving room only for those texts and people who are a priori “classics.” The State Writer makes for a lively read...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., is that of Stalinist/Soviet culture as a museum: not merely a repository, but a mech- anism that neutralizes both conflicting imperatives of revolutionary culture, destruction and construction, leaving room only for those texts and people who are a priori “classics.” The State Writer makes for a lively read...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... by Western Cultural Marxism, from the Leninist and later Stalinist ideologies of the Soviet Union, which drew from Marx’s thought but cannot be conflated with it. As Borenstein points out, Bolshevism reverses a key Marxist concept: while Marx imagined that human agency could change both subject...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 320–337.
Published: 01 September 2003
... for deportee labor assignments. After the War, under the pseudonym Federico Sánchez, Semprun returned to Paris and be- came active in the Spanish Communist Party in exile. He was expelled from the party in 1964, however, because of his criticisms of the Stalinist purges and other excesses of postwar...