Article: Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History.

Delivering Russian post-Stalinist literature from the grip of political and esthetic monologism is how one might encapsulate the multidimensional agenda of Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction. M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga's ambitious study of the prose of Ilf and Petrov, Zoshchenko, Aksyonov, Aleshkovsky, Bitov, and Sokolov, major writers of twentieth-century Russia, seeks to disavow the univocal appropriation of the legacy of Stalinism and forge, in a truly Bakhtinian stance, an awareness of the multiplicity of possible voices and dialogic perspectives. Throughout the book the monologic stasis of the Stalinist regime operates largely as a cipher for literary ...

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