{"product_id":"images-of-dictatorship-rosalind-marsh-9781138703650","title":"Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn's \u003cem\u003eThe First Circle\u003c\/em\u003e and Anatoly Rybakov's \u003cem\u003eChildren of the Arbat. \u003c\/em\u003eThis book will be of interest to students of Soviet\/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosalind Marsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138703656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138703650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Rosalind Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087764730111,"sku":"9781138703650","price":94.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5ca8d9a-61a6-486d-a7e3-a02855123a06.jpg?v=1769101271","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/images-of-dictatorship-rosalind-marsh-9781138703650","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}