title: Soviet Publishers and Readers of French Literature, Late 1920s – 1930s
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metadata.value: Panov, S. I.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Panova, O. Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T11:59:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T11:59:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Panov S. I., Panova O. Yu. ‘Soviet Publishers and Readers of French Literature, Late 1920s – 1930s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 3, 2021, pp. 738–754.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.311
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33459
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Soviet images of French literature are often reduced to the Stalinist canon of the late 1930s that comprised
  classical literature, including “modern classics,” like Romaine Rolland or Anatole France; and Communist
  and leftist writers selected as ideologically and aesthetically suitable for the Soviet reading audience, such as
  Henri Barbusse, Paul Vaillant Couturier, and others. This stereotype being partially true suggests, however, a simplistic
  and flattened view of the Soviet reception of French literature. It should be noted that even in the late 1930s
  there existed a certain amount of diversity in the choice of French authors; for example, International Literature
  magazine from time to time published ideological opponents like Pierre Drieu la Rochelle or Henry de Montherlant.
  As for the 1920s, in the course of the New Economic Policy both state and private publishing companies
  offered a wide and varied range of writers and books that included classics, “proletarian” and “revolutionary”
  authors along with adventure fiction, love stories, and “colonial novels,” easy reading, “decadent,” conservative,
  and “reactionary” writers. The paper traces transformations of publishing policy during the pivotal years of late
  1920s and early 1930s, the period of the “Great Turn” in Soviet society, marked by processes of centralization,
  total state control, and tightening of censorship. Archival documents allow us to analyze the role of Soviet intellectuals
  (literary critics, reviewers, editors, publishers) in the elaborating of new guidelines and implementing new
  practices in publishing policy and organizing readers feedback. A collection of readers’ letters of the mid-thirties,
  stored in the archival funds of GIKHL (State Publishing House of Fiction), documents the process of the making
  of the Soviet reader and shows a range of readers’ opinions and attitudes to French writers and their works at the
  early stage of Stalinist canon forming.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: France
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literary connections
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: publishing policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: book reviewing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reader feedback
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Soviet Publishers and Readers of French Literature, Late 1920s – 1930s
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metadata.value: Article
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