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    Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams

    Beginning with glasnost in the late s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives--memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs--assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the Terror under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal documents create a community where those who lived through the Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another's lives.

    This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia's nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian "intelligentsia" emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book. The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a professio

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    Irina Paperno

    Professor Paperno has retired but remains actively involved in teaching graduate and undergraduate courses and mentoring graduate students.

    Teaching: 

    Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The Russian and European Novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discourse analysis and close reading.

    Education:
    M.A. (Russian language and literature) Tartu University.
    M.A. (Psychology) Stanford University.
    Ph.D. (Slavic languages and literatures) Stanford University.

    Selected publications:

    Books

    “Osada cheloveka”: zapiski Ol’gi Freidenberg kak mifopoiticheskaia teoriia stalinizma [“The Siege of a Human Being”: Olga Freidenberg’s Notes as a Mythopolitical Theory of Stalinism]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie,

    “Who, What am I?” Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, ; paperback Revised Russian translation: “Kto, chto ia?” Tolstoi v svoikh dnevnikakh, pis’makh, vopominaniiakh, traktatakh. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie,

    Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,

    Intimacy and History: The Herzen Family Drama Reconsidered, Russian Literature  (Special Issue), ed. Irina Paperno, (Amsterdam: Elsevier, ).

    Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky’s Russia. Ith

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    Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

    Ausgabe: 59 () H. 3

    Verfasst von: Mark Edele

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