Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber.
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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... |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to... |
Publishing | Rose Tremain | RT
's second book, an illustrated life of Josef Stalin
, appeared in 1975 in the same series. |
Reception | Anna Akhmatova | However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad... |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan... |
Textual Features | Rose Allatini | The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors... |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The essays here examine many of her own writing practices and her feelings and opinions about her art. As well as introductions to individual novels the book collects pieces with such intriguing titles as Why... |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This novel begins arrestingly as the twentieth century opens, in a village in old Russia. Baby Anna Larionov is born the grand-daughter of a count who, troubled by political unrest and calls for reform... |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | A huge cast of peripheral characters enables the book to move occasionally outside Russia: Berlin before the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 is vividly described. Later, cold-war America becomes a shadowy presence when the most... |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant... |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | Relieved from the burden of the Stalin
era, AA
now began engaging with young writers in poetry readings and literary discussions, so much so as to become a living proof that literature was still alive. |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | |
Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | Together with a group of Communist sympathisers who nonetheless abhorred the rule of Joseph Stalin
(who included her current lover, Philip Rahv
), MMC
issued a new first, resurrected issue of the defunct left-wing literary... |
Textual Production | Anne Enright | Her research for this novel touched on many different nineteenth-century cultures. She read a study of French prostitutes and sex advice for young American couples. She read about dictators: accounts of Imelda
and Ferdinand Marcos |
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