CLIO, March 22nd, 1993
By Regine Robin. Translated by Catherine Porter. Foreword by Leon Robel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xxxix + 345 pages.
Having appeared in French in 1986, Regine Robin's magisterial work on Socialist Realism was substantially written before perestroika. This motivates two prefatory pieces not in the original. There she conjures up an image of herself forty years ago as a small girl in braids going to the movies in Paris, "red belt" to see Chapaev, singing "Pioneer" songs and identifying with the heroines of Soviet novels. "I always knew whom I should identify with and whom I ...
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