Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934

by George S.N. Luckyj

Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 illuminates the flowering of Ukrainian literature in the 1920s and the subsequent purge of Soviet Ukrainian writers during the following Stalinist decade. Upon its original publication in 1956, George S. N. Luckyj's book won the praise of American and English critics, but was violently attacked by Soviet critics who labeled it a "slander on the Soviet Union." In the current political environment of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822310996
• ISBN13: 9780822310990
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 367 Pages