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

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2011.
Main Author:
Ellis, Frank, 1953-
Series:Modern war studies
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953.
Soviet Union. > Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ > 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.
Format: Book
The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists /
Table of 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.

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