Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Standard Name: Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
Used Form: Josef Stalin
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politics | Beatrice Webb | The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement... |
Literary Setting | George Orwell | He set the action in England to show that the horrors of Stalin
ist Russia could occur in any society. The main character, inexplicably dissident Winston Smith, is employed by the Ministry of Truth to... |
Literary Setting | Elaine Feinstein | |
Literary responses | Beatrice Webb | Mary Agnes Hamilton
later commented on the uncharacteristic lyricism of this book. Although it was hard to read, it was, she said, hungrily read. BW
herself was delighted to meet a taxi driver who... |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | In her review for the Guardian, Susanna Rustin
was resolutely not too impressed. She found the characters too black-and-white, and that the novel has little to say about the function of art. .... |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | One outspoken admirer of CS
was Angela Carter
, who likened the experience of reading her to plunging into the mess of life itself'. |
Literary responses | Anna Akhmatova | Stalin
endorsed Akhmatova's letter with an order to free the prisoners. Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 151 |
Friends, Associates | Constance Garnett | In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky
, who encouraged CG
, then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted... |
Fictionalization | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxviii-xxix |
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