Alexander Zinoviev as Writer and Thinker: An Assessment

226 Pages·1988·21.34 MB·English

by  Philip Hanson

ALEXANDER ZINOVIEV AS WRITER AND
THINKER
Alexander Zinoviev as
Writer and Thinker
An Assessment
Edited by
Philip Hanson
Reader in Soviet Economics
University of Birmingham
and
Michael Kirkwood
Senior Lecturer in Russian Language
University of London
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Alexander Zinoviev as writer and thinker :
an assessment.
1. Zinov'ev, Aleksandr
L Hanson, Philip II. Kirkwood. Michael
197' .2 B4279.Z54
ISBN 978-1-349-09192-8 ISBN 978-1-349-09190-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-09190-4
Contents
List of Plates
Vll
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on the Contributors Xl
Editors' Note xiii
1 Introduction 1
Philip Hanson and Michael Kirkwood
2 Alexander Zinoviev: Experiences of a Soviet
Methodologist 10
Charles Janson
3 Alexander Zinoviev on the Role of Literature
in Society 26
Arch Tait
4 Ideology in the Works of A.A. Zinoviev 44
Michael Kirkwood
5 Zinoviev's Fiction in the Context of
Unofficial Russian Prose of the 1970s 61
Arnold McMillin
6 The Poems in The Yawning Heights 71
G.S. Smith
7 Alexander Zinoviev's Language 89
Wolf Moskovich
8 The Drawings and Paintings 105
Tomasz Mianowicz
9 Zinoviev's Art and its Context 113
Julian Graffy
10 Active and Passive Negation: An Essay in
Ibanskian Sociology 118
Jon Elster
11 We and Zinoviev: A Political View 145
Wenzel Daneil
v
VI Contents
12 Homo Sovieticus among the Russia-watchers 154
Philip Hanson
13 Moralism versus Science 173
Geoffrey Hosking
14 Stalin and Stalinism in the Works of Zinoviev 179
Michael Kirkwood
15 A Bibliography of Writings By and About
Alexander Zinoviev 200
Philip Hanson
Index 205
List of Plates
Between pages 112-13
1. Eternally Living
2. Marx and Doves
3. Refrost
4. Homo Sovieticus
5. Rats
6. To the Congress in the West
7. Moscow in 50 years
8. The Soviet Army in the West
VII
Acknowledgements
The papers contained in this book were, with the exception of the
chapter by Jon Elster, presented and discussed at a small conference
held at the University of London in January 1986. The discussion on
that occasion led to numerous revisions of the first drafts. It also
helped the editors considerably in planning the book. We are grateful
to the Nuffield Foundation and to the Ford Foundation for small
conference grants which made that conference possible.
PHILIP HANSON
MICHAEL KIRKWOOD
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Notes on the Contributors
Wenzel Daneil is the pen-name of a West European government
official with a special interest in East-West relations.
Jon Elster is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo.
Julian Graffy is Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature at the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of
London.
Philip Hanson is Reader in Soviet Economics at the University of
Birmingham.
Geoffrey Hosking is Professor of Russian History at the School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.
Charles Janson is a journalist and the publisher of Soviet Analyst.
Michael Kirkwood is Senior Lecturer in Russian Language at the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of
London.
Arnold McMillin is Professor of Russian at the University of Liver
pool.
Tomasz Mianowicz is a Polish-born journalist now living in Munich,
and a regular contributor to Kultura (Paris).
Wolf Moskovich is Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
G. S. Smith is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a
Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Arch Tait is Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature at the
University of Birmingham.
Xl
Editors' Note
In the footnotes and sometimes, where appropriate, in the text, we
have identified Zinoviev's books simply by the initial letters of their
titles. Where an English translation exists, we refer to that and the
Russian original in that order. The list that follows does not include
the more technical writings in logic. The translations of the Russian
titles are given in the bibliography.
YH Yawning Heights
zv Ziyayushchie vysoty
RF The Radiant Future
SB Svetloe budushchee
ZNS Zapiski nochnogo storozha
BI Bez illyuzii
VPR V preddverii raya
ZhD Zheltyi dom
MIZ My i zapad
TRC The Reality of Communism
KKR Kommunizm kak real'nost'
MDMCh Moy dom moya chuzhbina
HS Homo Sovieticus
GS Gomo sovetikus
NSNRNB Ni svobody ni ravenstva ni bratstva
NYP Nashei yunosti polet
ED/ Evangelie dlya Ivana
lNG Idi na Golgofu
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