 | Stories of the Soviet Experience Paperno argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives--memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs--assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the Terror under Stalin and World War II. Irina Paperno teaches Russian literature and intellectual history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia , also from Cornell, and Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior . She is coeditor of several books, including Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism . |
