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2 books match the query 'Zoshchenko, Mikhail'
Scenes from the Bathhouse
And Other Stories of Communist RussiaMikhail Zoshchenko
University of Michigan Press, 1959
Uproariously funny stories that give a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the Soviet Union of Zoshchenko's time
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The Politics of Reception
Critical Constructions of Mikhail ZoshchenkoGreg Carleton
Northwestern University Press, 1998
Mikhail Zoshchenko was one of the most popular and contentious Russian writers in the period from 1920 to 1950. Scholars and critics have long enlisted Zoshchenko to fight the cultural battles of early Soviet history, the Cold War, and even the glasnost era. In The Politics of Reception, Gregory Carleton analyzes how and why Zoshchenko's legacy has become a battleground for competing ideological interests.
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