EAN: 9783838210179

THE MONGOL CONQUESTS IN THE NOVELS OF VASILY YA...

Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky  1874-1954) was a writer of historical novels
whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely read throughout the Soviet era and
continues to be popular in the post-Soviet era. This book is not just a biographical sketch of
an important Russian Soviet writer basically unknown to the Western public. The focus on Yan
and his work also impressively demonstrates the dominant role of ideology in a totalitarian
society  which is not just a socio-economic and political system of the past  but could
reemerge in the future as ISIS has demonstrated. Shlapentokh shows that ideology and the
cultural and intellectual life in totalitarian regimes are more complex than is often assumed.
Intellectuals often enough engaged in stressful  but-in its literary outcome-captivating cat
and mouse games with censors  the powerful  and the government.

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