The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists / Frank Ellis.

Author/creator Ellis, Frank, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoLawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2011.
Descriptionxiii, 376 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a--History.
Russian literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Russian fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
War in literature.
Novelists, Russian--20th century. --Biography.
Veterans--Soviet Union. --Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Soviet.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns. --Eastern Front.

SeriesModern war studies
Modern war studies. ^A239554
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364 and index.
LCCN 2011002809
ISBN9780700617845 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0700617841 (cloth : acid-free paper)

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