Solzhenitsyn's Portrait of Stalin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4906858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Kern (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 1974-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2495323 |
| OpenAlex | W2331735866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Dentsovtch contains only one reference to Iosif Stalin: "In the room someone was yelling: 'So the old man with the moustache will have mercy on you! He wouldn't believe his own brother, let alone slobs like you!' " Despite these disrespectful words, the novella's condemnation of Stalin and the society controlled by him is basically an indirect one. As Georg Lukács observes: "Solzhenitsyn's achievement consists in the literary transformation of an uneventful day in a typical camp into a symbol of a past which has not yet been overcome... . Although the camps epitomize one extreme of the Stalin era, the author has made his skilful grey monochrome of camp life into a symbol of everyday life under Stalin." Understated, allusive, and deceptively simple, the novella, published with Khrushchev's personal approval in December 1962, marked the crest of the party's anti-Stalin campaign. Within months Khrushchev called for a brake on prison-camp literature, and Solzhenitsyn began to encounter increasingly severe and decisive critical opposition
Art · Art history · Gulag · Literature · Novella · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Prison · Russian literature · Symbol (formal · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.03 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 1991 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |