Chapaev and his Comrades : War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century)

Across the twentieth century, war was the experience of the Russian people, and it became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet experience in literature as well as other areas of cultural life. This book traces those war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in the literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period.