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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Frank, 1953-

Series:

Modern war studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian fiction.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War in literature.

Novelists, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, Russian.

Veterans--Soviet Union--Biography.

Veterans.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Soviet.

History.

Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡--History.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Stalin, Joseph.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Soviet.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xiii, 376 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780700617845

0700617841

OCLC:

681500359