Research Catalog

Title

A Moscow literary memoir : among the great artists of Russia from 1946 to 1980 / Robert A.D. Ford ; edited by Carole Jerome.

Author

Ford, R. A. D., 1915-1998.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jerome, Carole.

Description

xi, 307 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

In this literary memoir, which spans the period between the mid-1940s and the early 1980s, R. A. D. Ford shares his long-standing fascination with the Russian people, expanding on his political memoir, Our Man in Moscow. From totalitarian repression to life and art in the splintered, chaotic ruins of a superpower, A Moscow Literary Memoir offers a unique perspective on Soviet life from a man who has spent more time in Russia than any other Western diplomat.

Subject

• Ford, R. A. D., 1915-1998
• Ford, R. A. D., 1915-1998
• Geschichte 1946-1980
• Arts > Soviet Union
• Communism and culture > Soviet Union
• Arts
• Civilization
• Communism and culture
• Intellectual life
• Erlebnisbericht
• Künstler
• Soviet Union > Intellectual life
• Soviet Union > Civilization
• Soviet Union
• Moskau
• Sowjetunion

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Bella and the Beast -- 2. Engineers of the Human Soul -- 3. The Thaw? -- 4. Zhivago to Denisovich -- 5. Backstage -- 6. Don't Frighten Me -- 7. The Dying Swan -- 8. Sonatas and Political Notes -- 9. Smell the Dust -- 10. The Party Inside and Out -- 11. Uncle Vranya -- 12. Dead Souls -- 13. A Miasma of Oblomovism -- 14. The One-Eyed Monster -- 15. Lenin Is with Us -- 16. Jungle Cats at a Tea Party -- 17. Turning Points -- 18. Lili -- 19. The Murder of Nina: The Life of Painting -- 20. Internal Exiles -- 21. Epilogue.

ISBN

• 0802006159
• 9780802006158

LCCN

95236341

OCLC

• ocm33840038
• 33840038
• SCSB-2076813

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library