Download or read book History and Literature in Contemporary Russia written by Rosalind Marsh and published by New York University Press. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsh (Russian studies, women's studies, U. of Bath) studies the way in which literary works on 20th-century Russian history have been presented to the Russian public and the debates they engendered in the press, during the period since 1985. She provides a chronology of literary politics of the period, analyzes the content and influence of recently published literature on historical themes, and investigates the role of history and literature in Russia in the 1990s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR