3. NAMING THE SOCIAL EVIL: Dudintsev’s Ethical Quest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION: Readers, Writers, and Soviet History 1
4. 1. A PASSION FOR THE PRINTED WORD: Postwar Soviet Literature 24
5. 2. BAROMETER OF THE EPOCH: Pomerantsev and the Debate on Sincerity 44
6. 3. NAMING THE SOCIAL EVIL: Dudintsev’s Ethical Quest 88
7. 4. RECALLING THE REVOLUTION: The Pasternak Affair 110
8. 5. LITERATURE ABOVE LITERATURE: Tvardovskii’s Memory 134
9. 6. REASSESSING THE MORAL ORDER: Ehrenburg and the Memory of the Terror 171
10. 7. FINDING NEW WORDS: Solzhenitsyn and the Experience of Terror 209
11. 8. DISCOVERING HUMAN RIGHTS: The Siniavskii- Daniel’ Trial 239
12. 9. IN SEARCH OF AUTHENTICITY: The “Legends and Facts” Controversy 263
13. 10. LAST BATTLES: The End of Tvardovskii’s Novyi mir 295
14. EPILOGUE: Tradition, Change, Legacies 323
15. ARCHIVES CONSULTED 333
16. NOTES 335
17. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 419
18. INDEX 423