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Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as ";one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period."; (The Guardian)Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and the emancipation of its prisoners, Faithful Ruslan is an embittered cri de coeur from a writer whose circumstances obliged him to resist the violence of arbitrary power. ";Every writer who writes anything in this country is made to feel he has committed a crime,"; Georgi Vladimov said. Dissident, he said, is a word that ";they force on you."; His mother, a victim of Stalin’s anti-Semitic policy, had been interred for two years in one of the camps from which Vladimov derived the wrenching detail of Faithful Ruslan. The novel circulated in samizdat for more than a decade, often attributed to Solzhenitsyn, befor
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Georgi Vladimov wrote for Novy mir until resigning from the Soviet Writers’ Union in 1977, whereupon he established an office of Amnesty International, an officially outlawed organization. Vladimov emigrated to Germany in 1983 and was stripped of his Soviet citizenship. His novel A General and His Army won the Russian Booker Prize in 1995. Vladimov died in Frankfurt in 2003.
A distinguished translator of Gorky, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn, Michael Glenny died in 1990 in Moscow.
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Text: English, Russian (translation)
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- PublisherMelville House
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1935554670
- ISBN 13 9781935554677
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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