H.G. Wells and All Things Russian - by Galya Diment (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>'H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' examines Wells's keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>'H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' is a fertile terrain for research and discussion and this volume will be the first to devote itself entirely to the theme. Wells was an astute student of Russian literature, culture and history, and Russians, in turn, became eager students of Wells's views and works (Yuly Kagarlitsky, a Soviet biographer of Wells, called him 'a one-man think tank'). During the Soviet years, in fact, no 'big' foreign author was safer for Soviet critics to praise than H. G. Wells. The reason was obvious. He had met - and approved of - Lenin, was a close friend of the Soviet literary giant Maxim Gorky and, in general, expressed much respect for Russia's evolving Communist experiment, even after it fell into Stalin's hands. </p> <p>Wells's views on the Soviet Union were often more complex than Soviet critics gave him credit for, but their whitewashing only served to secure his position as a sympathetic man of letters from the capitalist world. On the other hand, those who discerned his nuanced position towards totalitarian regimes, including the dystopian writer Evgeny Zamyatin, the author of an early Soviet study of Wells, found him to be a soulmate and an influence of a different kind, which worked to increase the English author's popularity among those segments of the Russian reading public for whom his relationships with Lenin and Gorky meant very little. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Given the overall high quality of all contributions and their stimulating analyses, this volume will be welcome by Wells scholars and students alike. It will be also of interest to everyone studying comparative literature, science fiction, and twentieth-century British-Russian cultural encounters." -- Alexandra Smith, The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society, 43 (2020), 115-118.</p><br><br><p>The book reminds us of the contingency of the personal passions and antipathies which shape cultural exchange. H. G. Wells and All Things Russian takes its place in the burgeoning field of recent scholarship on Anglo-Russian relations, a field to which its editor has already made so many significant contributions. -- H. G. Wells and All Things Russian, Reviewed by P. R. Bullock, Slavonic and East European Review, 99, no. 2, April 2021, 341-342</p><br><br><p>'A highly readable series of essays examining H. G. Wells's influence on and importance to Russians and vice versa.' <br /> --Jonathan Stoye FRS, The Francis Crick Institute, and Great-Grandson of H. G. Wells</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Galya Diment is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA, where she teaches Russian and comparative literature. The author of The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf and Joyce (1994), Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel (1997, 2013) and A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky (2011, 2013), Diment has published more than fifty articles. In addition, she has edited/co-edited Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (1993), Goncharov's 'Oblomov' A Critical Companion (1998), MLA Approaches to Teaching 'Lolita' (2008) and Katherine Mansfield and Russia (2017). Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine and New York Magazine.</p>
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