Voronsky was an outstanding figure of post-revolutionary Soviet intellectual life, editor of the most important literary journal of the 1920s in the USSR and a supporter of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in the struggle against Stalinism. He was executed by Stalin in 1937. A defender of the “fellow traveler” writers and an opponent of the Proletarian Culture movement, Voronsky was one of the authentic representatives of classical Marxism in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century.
It has long been a weakness in the West that Marxist literary criticism is usually discussed with little direct knowledge of Voronsky’s work. The publication of this volume of essays intends to correct that weakness by making available to an English-speaking audience many translated texts for the first time. Following his “rehabilitation” in 1957, several of his writings were published in the USSR in heavily censored form. All cuts have been restored for this edition. Translated by Frederick S. Choate.
| Publisher | Mehring Books |
| Author | Aleksandr Voronsky |
| Country | Australia |
| Publication Date | 05/03/2026 |
| Pages | 258 |
| Edition | first |
| Size | 14.53 x 2.34 x 21.67 cm |
| About the Author | Aleksandr Voronsky (1884-1937) was the editor of the most important literary journal in the Soviet Union during the 1920s – Red Virgin Soil – and a major figure in Soviet intellectual life during that period. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party in 1904 and played an active role in revolutionary politics in Tsarist Russia. |
| Publisher Address | sales@mehring.com.au |
| ISBN | ISBN-13 |
