LEADER 05777nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910789842203321 005 20230721013916.0 010 $a0-8014-5787-4 010 $a0-8014-5911-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459115 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079161 035 $a(OCoLC)726824345 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457696 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487657 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11344407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487657 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10445608 035 $a(PQKB)10575142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138074 035 $a(OCoLC)966819169 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51925 035 $a(DE-B1597)478393 035 $a(OCoLC)979577143 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459115 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138074 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457696 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL769577 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079161 100 $a20090421d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStories of the Soviet experience$b[electronic resource] $ememoirs, diaries, dreams /$fIrina Paperno 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 225 1 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4839-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Memoirs and Diaries Published at The End of The Soviet Epoch: An Overview --$tPublishers, Authors, Texts, Reader, Corpus --$tThe Background: Memoir Writing and Historical Consciousness --$tConnecting the "I" and History --$tRevealing the Intimate --$tBuilding a Community --$tWriting at the End --$tQualification: The "I" in Quotation Marks --$tExcursus: Readers Respond in LiveJournal --$tConcluding Remarks --$tPart II. Two Texts: Close Readings --$t1. Lidiia Chukovskaia's Diary of Anna Akhmatova's Life: "Intimacy and Terror" --$t2. The Notebooks of the Peasant Evgeniia Kiseleva: "The War Separated Us Forever" --$tPart III. Dreams of Terror: Interpretations --$tComments on Dreams as Stories and as Sources --$tAndrei Arzhilovsky: The Peasant Raped by Stalin --$tNikolai Bukharin Dreams of Stalin: Abraham and Isaac --$tWriters' Dreams: Mikhail Prishvin --$tWriters' Dreams: Veniamin Kaverin --$tThe Dreams of Anna Akhmatova --$tA Comment on Writers' and Peasants' Theories of Dreams --$tA Philosopher's Dreams: Yakov Druskin --$tStalin's Dream --$tConcluding Remarks --$tConclusion --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix: Russian Texts --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aBeginning with glasnost in the late 1980's and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives-memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs-assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the Terror under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal documents create a community where those who lived through the Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another's lives. This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia's nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian "intelligentsia" emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book. The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a professional editor, kept to document the day-to-day life of her friend, the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Evgeniia Kiseleva, a barely literate former peasant, kept records in notebooks with the thought of crafting a movie script from the story of her life. The striking parallels and contrasts between these two documents demonstrate how the Soviet state and the idea of history shaped very different lives and very different life stories. The book also analyzes dreams (most of them terror dreams) recounted in the diaries and memoirs of authors ranging from a peasant to well-known writers, a Party leader, and Stalin himself. History, Paperno shows, invaded their dreams, too. With a sure grasp of Russian cultural history, great sensitivity to the men and women who wrote, and a command of European and American scholarship on life writing, Paperno places diaries and memoirs of the Soviet experience in a rich historical and conceptual frame. 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