LEADER 03731nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910456317303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8020-8670-5 010 $a1-281-99648-3 010 $a9786611996482 010 $a1-4426-7952-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442679528 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001844 035 $a(EBL)3443814 035 $a(OCoLC)932314392 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000308782 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11255292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308782 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264766 035 $a(PQKB)11768519 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600931 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443814 035 $a(DE-B1597)464842 035 $a(OCoLC)944177502 035 $a(OCoLC)999355412 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442679528 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10290746 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001844 100 $a20041123d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussian literature, 1995-2002$b[electronic resource] $eon the threshold of the new millennium /$fN.N. Shneidman 210 $aToronto $cUniversity of Toronto Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-8264-5 311 $a0-8020-8724-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references: p. [193]-199. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Russian Literature and Society on the Threshold of the New Millennium --$t2. The Seniors' Prose --$t3. The Mature Generation --$t4. The New Writers of the Perestroika Era --$t5. Women Writers --$t6. The Writers of the Conservative 'Patriotic' Camp --$t7. The Mystery Novel Writers --$t8. The New Names of 1995-2002 --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWriters have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized between an increasingly prosperous minority and a very poor majority. This divide is also mirrored within the writing community, with some writers supporting conservative, nationalist pro-Soviet thinking, and others, liberal, democratic, pro-Western thought. N.N. Shneidman, in the tradition of his previous volumes ? Soviet Literature in the 1970's; Soviet Literature in the 1980's; Russian Literature, 1988?1994 ? investigates the Russian literary scene with special emphasis on the relationship between thematic substance and the artistic quality of recently published prose. Despite the many challenges besetting it, Shneidman argues convincingly that literary activity in Russia continues to be dynamic and vibrant. The future development of Russian literature may depend on general economic, political, and social factors, but a new generation of talented writers is fast moving past older forms of ideology and embracing new ways of thinking about Russia. 606 $aRussian fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891.73/509 700 $aShneidman$b N. N$0756534 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456317303321 996 $aRussian literature, 1995-2002$91980420 997 $aUNINA