The New Life: A Day On A Collective Farm
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A landmark of Soviet-era Russian literature, The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm by Fyodor Abramov offers a searing, unflinching portrait of rural life under the Soviet collective farming system. Drawing on a single day in the life of a collective farm, Abramov chronicles the grinding hardships, moral compromises, and quiet dignities of ordinary Russian peasants caught in the machinery of Stalinist agricultural policy. Written with the same raw, documentary honesty that electrified readers of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this novella presents a damning yet deeply human account of a society straining under ideological pressure. Abramov's prose is spare and unsparing, holding a mirror up to the contradictions of Soviet collectivisation with the authority of a writer who lived through it himself.
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A landmark of Soviet-era Russian literature, The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm by Fyodor Abramov offers a searing, unflinching portrait of rural life under the Soviet collective farming system. Drawing on a single day in the life of a collective farm, Abramov chronicles the grinding hardships, moral compromises, and quiet dignities of ordinary Russian peasants caught in the machinery of Stalinist agricultural policy. Written with the same raw, documentary honesty that electrified readers of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this novella presents a damning yet deeply human account of a society straining under ideological pressure. Abramov's prose is spare and unsparing, holding a mirror up to the contradictions of Soviet collectivisation with the authority of a writer who lived through it himself.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark of Soviet-era Russian literature, The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm by Fyodor Abramov offers a searing, unflinching portrait of rural life under the Soviet collective farming system. Drawing on a single day in the life of a collective farm, Abramov chronicles the grinding hardships, moral compromises, and quiet dignities of ordinary Russian peasants caught in the machinery of Stalinist agricultural policy. Written with the same raw, documentary honesty that electrified readers of Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this novella presents a damning yet deeply human account of a society straining under ideological pressure. Abramov's prose is spare and unsparing, holding a mirror up to the contradictions of Soviet collectivisation with the authority of a writer who lived through it himself.
