Life under Stalin: Student questions

[Rebecca Jane Stanton]

Amanda Ewington asked:
 > 1) Has Zhdanov's speech denouncing Akhmatova and Zoshchenko been
 > translated into English, and if so, where can it be found?

The speech has been translated (in, if I recall correctly, a slightly
abridged or edited form -- it's been a while since I looked at this
book), together with his notorious denunciations of assorted composers
and scholars, in a collection improbably titled "Essays on Literature,
Philosophy, and Music."  There are a couple of copies in the Columbia
stacks, so I'm guessing it's not all that rare.  Here's the info the
library has on file:
  Author:      Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich, 1896-1948.
  Title:     Essays on literature, philosophy, and music.
  Physical Description:     96 p. 21 cm.
  Publisher/ Date:     New York, International Publishers [1950]

Happy hunting!

--
Rebecca Stanton
Assistant Professor, Russian literature
Dept. of Slavic Languages
Barnard College, Columbia University
226D Milbank Hall
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10031
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212.854.3133
http://www.columbia.edu/~rjs19

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