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Title: Cement.
Description: NY, Ungar, (1987). 14th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Autobiographical note by Gladkov. Enlarged edition. A proletarian realist Gladkov was one of the first important. writers of the post-Revolutionary era in the Soviet Union. He was strongly influenced by Gorky & earlier by Dostoevsky. He died in 1958. Cement was his greatest success, the first novel to delineate the life of people in relation to the economic politics of the country. Returning soldier hero Gleb comes back in the 1920s to a world in painful transition & to the cement factory being reorganized for the massive national effort. Binding rubbed.

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