Physical Description
xiii, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN
9780700617845
0700617841 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364 and index.
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.
