Russia at war 1941-1945

Pickert, W., Vom Kuban Brückenkopf bis Sewastopol. Heidelberg, 1955.

Redelis, V., Partisanenkrieg. Heidelberg, 1958.

Rohden, H. v., Die Luftwaffe ringt um Stalingrad. Wiesbaden, 1950.

Schröter, H., Stalingrad "bis zur letzten Patrone". Lengerich, 1955.

Schultz, J., Die letzten 30 Tage. Stuttgart, 1951.

Tippeiskirch, K. v., Geschichte des zweiten Weltkrieges. Bonn, 1951.

Vormann, N. v., Tscherkassy. Heidelberg, 1954.

Waasen, H. M., Was geschah in Stalingrad? Wo sind die Schuldigen? Salzburg, 1950.

Weinert, E., Das Nationalkomitee "Freies Deutschland", 1943-45. East Berlin, 1957.

SOME IMPORTANT RUSSIAN LITERARY WORKS WRITTEN DURING OR

SOON AFTER THE WAR

PROSE

Bek, A., Volokolamskoye shosse. Moscow, 1944.

Fadeyev, A., Molodaya Gvardiya. Moscow, 1946.

Gorbatov, B., Nepokoryonnyie. Moscow, 1943.

Grossman, V., Narod bessmerten. Moscow, 1942.

Kazekevich, E., Zvezda. Moscow, 1945.

Kazekevich, E., Vesna na Odere. Moscow, 1948.

Korneichuk, A., Front (play). Moscow, 1942.

Leonov, L., Vnashi gody. Publitzystika 1941-48. Moscow, 1949.

Leonov, L., Pyesy. Moscow, 1945. (Plays, including Nashestviye (The Invasion).) Nekrasov, V., V Okopakh Stalingrada. Moscow, 1946.

Polevoi, B., Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke. Moscow, 1947.

Simonov, K., Russkie lyudi (play). Moscow, 1942.

Simonov, K., Dniinochi. Moscow, 1944.

Sholohkov, M, Nauka nenavisti. Moscow, 1942.

Sholokhov, M., Oni srazhalis' za rodinu. 1959 (reprint).

Tolstoi, A. N., Polnoye sobraniye sochinenii, vol. 14. Moscow, 1950.

Tolstoi, A. N., Ivan Groznyï, Dramaticheskaya povest'. Moscow, 1945.

Vasilevakaya, V., Raduga. Moscow, 1942.

More recent novels on the war years are too numerous to list, but the most important from a documentary standpoint are K. Simonov's Zhivyie i mertvyie (Moscow, 1958) and Soldatami ne rozhdayutsya (published in Znamya, 1963-4), novels and stories by Yu.

Bondarev, Yu. Nagibin, L. Volynsky, V. Grossman, V. Nekrasov, Yu. German, O.

Bergholz (Dnevnyie zvezdy), B. Polevoi, etc.

WARTIME POETRY

Akhmatova, A., Izbrannoye. Tashkent, 1943.

Aliger, M., Zoya. Moscow, 1942. (Also in form of a play, Moscow, 1943.)

Bergholz, O., Stikhi. Moscow, 1962. (Includes most of her war poems.)

Ehrenburg, I., Svoboda. Moscow, 1943.

Inber, V., O Leningrade, poemy i stikhi. Leningrad, 1943.

Pasternak, B., Zemnoi prostor. Moscow, 1945.

Selvinsky, I., Krym, Kavkaz, Kuban. Moscow, 1947.

Simonov, K., Stikhi. Moscow, 1942.

Surkov, A., Stikhi. Moscow, 1943.

Tikhonov, N., Kirov s nami. Moscow, 1942.

Tvardovsky, A., Vasili Terkin. Moscow, 1942.

Most of the less conventional poetry on the war was not published until after Stalin's death; see, in particular, Literaturnaya Moskva annual, 1955 and 1956, and the Den'

Poezii annual since 1955, particularly that of 1962. These contain much poetry by

"soldier poets" like S. Gudzenko and also many poems, "unpublishable" under Stalin, by older writers like S. Kirsanov, N. Tikhonov, A. Tvardovsky, etc., some of them written during the war.

MUSIC

Music holds an important place in wartime art and propaganda. Of the innumerable

symphonies, oratorios, cantatas, etc., directly inspired by the war the most striking are D.

Shostakovich's celebrated 7th Symphony and the even more poignant (though grossly underrated) 8th Symphony, besides his chamber music, especially his Piano Trio of 1944.

Important are also a number of war-time compositions by N. Myaskovsky, e.g. his

cantata, Kirov s nami. Of S. Prokofiev's principal works written during the war, only his opera War and Peace has an obvious and direct connection with the War.

There was an enormous output of wartime songs, many included in selections like

Krasnoarmeisky pesennik (Moscow, 1942), Pesni by M. Blanter (Moscow, 1942), Pesni by D. and D. Pokrass (Moscow, 1942) and many other later collections.

CINEMA

More important than the feature films produced during the war (mostly historical,