It is commonly held among scholars that in the Stalin years no specific mass literature existed in the Soviet Union; what do we do, then, with Lev Ovalov's Major Pronin or with Lev Sheinin's stories, which began to appear since the mid-Thirties? What about Nikolai Shpanov's post-war million-sellers?
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It is commonly held among scholars that in the Stalin years no specific mass literature existed in the Soviet Union; what do we do, then, with Lev Ovalov's Major Pronin or with Lev Sheinin's stories, which began to appear since the mid-Thirties? What about Nikolai Shpanov's post-war million-sellers?
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