{"product_id":"кореванова-моя-жизнь-1938-korevanova-my-life-autobiography-ural-worker-peasant","title":"Korevanova, A. G. My Life [Autobiography of a Ural Worker-Peasant] (Moya zhizn' [Avtobiografiya ural'skoy rabotnitsy-krest'yanki]), 1938. In Russian","description":"\u003cp\u003eКореванова А. Г. Моя жизнь [Автобиография уральской работницы-крестьянки]. \/ Предисл. М. Горького. — 2-е изд.\u003cbr\u003eМосква ; Ленинград : Советский писатель, 1938.\u003cbr\u003e351 с., 1 вкл. л. портр. Издательский твердый переплет, формат 18 см.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKorevanova, A. G. My Life [Autobiography of a Ural Worker-Peasant] (Moya zhizn' [Avtobiografiya ural'skoy rabotnitsy-krest'yanki]). \/ Preface by M. Gorky. — 2nd ed.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow ; Leningrad : Soviet Writer, 1938.\u003cbr\u003e351 pp., 1 inserted leaf (portrait). Publisher's hardcover, format 18 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1938, this second edition of Agrippina Korevanova’s autobiography is a quintessential artifact of the Socialist Realist era and the Soviet project of \"literary shock-work.\" The book represents a specific genre of the 1930s—the \"working-class memoir\"—where ordinary laborers were encouraged to document their transition from the \"darkness\" of Tsarist oppression to the \"light\" of Soviet consciousness.\u003cbr\u003eThe significance of the work is underscored by the preface written by Maxim Gorky, the \"patriarch\" of Soviet literature. Gorky was a fierce advocate for recording the history of factories and the lives of the proletariat, believing that such authentic voices were necessary to validate the new social order. Korevanova’s narrative follows her grueling life as a peasant and factory hand in the Urals, detailing the domestic hardships, social inequality, and the burgeoning revolutionary sentiment that eventually led her toward the Soviet path.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is a primary source for historians interested in the \"Great Break\" and the cultural engineering of the 1930s. It exemplifies the state’s effort to create a new canon of \"people's literature\" where the boundary between personal memory and political propaganda was intentionally blurred. For collectors, this 1938 \"Soviet Writer\" edition, complete with the portrait of the author, is a rare example of the aesthetic and ideological values that defined the pre-war Soviet literary landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963246018602,"sku":"EB-306512495796","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/57_f8be1d03-3e14-42bc-b1b6-e2c0debafdaf.jpg?v=1768163191","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d0%bc%d0%be%d1%8f-%d0%b6%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bd%d1%8c-1938-korevanova-my-life-autobiography-ural-worker-peasant","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}