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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ellis, Frank (1953-....)
Titre(s) : The damned and the dead [Texte imprimé] : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists / Frank Ellis
Publication : Lawrence (Kan.) : University press of Kansas, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : xiii, 376 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Modern war studies
Lien à la collection : Modern war studies
Comprend : The sword and the pen : an overview of war literature ; Return from the front : the
veterans dissent ; Traitors, wolves, and infernal cold : the war stories of Vasil'
Bykov ; The imperium ripostes : the return of the Vozhd' ; The hinge of fate : the
Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet-Russian war literature ; NKVD reports from Stalingrad,
1942-1943 : blocking detachments, deserters, executions, and morale ; The Russian
war novel of the 1990s : a final reckoning? ; Afterword ; Appendix A: Order of the
headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941 ; Appendix
B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942 ;
Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's
Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364 and index
The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World
War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism.
While many historians have chronicled the epic nature of that arena of war, it has
largely been left to Russian novelists to fully express the intense human dimensions
of that conflict. This study provides the first comprehensive survey of that impressive
body of literature. Canvassing a wide spectrum of works by Soviet and post-Soviet
writers, many of whom were war veterans themselves, Ellis uncovers themes both common
to war literature in general and distinctive to the Soviet experience. One of the
many threads running throughout Ellis' study is the dilemma of the Red Army soldier
condemned to serve a regime that was utterly paranoid regarding the allegiances of
its own armies, so much so that Soviet soldiers often felt as threatened by the Soviet
government as they did by the German armies. Many of the novelists reinforce the now
well known fact that Stalin devoted considerable resources to ferreting out soldiers
whose actions (or inactions) suggested disloyalty to his repressive regime. A few
of them became battlegrounds in their own right, pitting Soviet writers against Soviet
censors in a struggle over the public memory of the war. Russia's memories of World
War II are forever tied to the suffering of its people. Ellis' rich and revealing
work shows us why. -- from Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Littérature et guerre
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Opérations militaires -- Front oriental
Genre ou forme : Récits personnels soviétiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780700617845 (cloth) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0700617841 (cloth) (acid-free
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42530142f
Notice n° :
FRBNF42530142
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