The Russian Memoir: History and Literature

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Beth Holmgren Part I—The Memoir and the World Lidiia Ginzburg: Images of the Intelligentsia 5 Jane Gary Harris The Stuffed Shirt Unstuffed: Zabolotsky’s “Early Years” and the Complexity of Soviet Culture 35 Sarah Pratt The Italics Are Hers: Matrophobia and the Family Romance in Elena Bonner’s Mothers and Daughters 53 Helena Goscilo Accommodating Consumers’ Desires: El’dar Riazanov’s Memoirs in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia 70 Alexander Prokhorov Part II—The Memoir and the Word The Canonization of Dolgorukaia 93 Gitta Hammarberg Art and Prostokvasha: Avdot’ia Panaeva’s Work 128 Jehanne Gheith and Beth Holmgren Contents The Art of Memory: Cultural Reverence as Political Critique in Evgeniia Ginzburg’s Writing of the Gulag 145 Natasha Kolchevska English as Sanctuary: Nabokov’s and Brodsky’s Autobiographical Writings 167 Galya Diment The Tale of Bygone Years: Reconstructing the Past in the Contemporary Russian Memoir 186 Marina Balina Contributors 211 Index 215 ...