Author: Shaginian, Marietta Sergeevna [1888-1982]
Title: Po dorogam piatiletki : ocherki
Description: Moskva, Profizdat, 1947. orig. wrappers. 16x11cm, 447 pp. Spiner rubbed & stained.. Rubbed. Title-page repaired. Rear cover rumpled. Just Good. ¶ Text entirely in Russian. Contents : Magnitogorsk posle voiny.-- Cheliabinskie kolkhozy.--Na Altae.--Geroi nashego vremeni.--Nauka i piatiletka.--Mysli o sovetskoi demokratii ["Marietta Sergeevna Shaginian was a Soviet writer and activist of Armenian descent. She was one of the " fellow travelers" of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting in satirico- fantastic fiction. In February 1912 Shaginian wrote to the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, signing herself "Re". This was the first of many letters written between them over the next 5 years, many quoted in Bertensson & Leyda. Later in 1912, Rachmaninoff asked her to suggest poems he could set as songs. Many of her suggestions appeared in his Op. 34 set of that year (list of titles in Bertensson & Leyda). The first group, from Pushkin's poem "The Muse" of 1828, he dedicated to her. In 1913 she dedicated her first set of published poems, "Orientalia", to him. Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917, never to return, and their correspondence ceased at that point. Shaginian authored the novels Mess- Mend (1923), Three Looms (1929),Hydrocentral (1930–31), for which she was criticized by Soviet literary critics who found her innovative fiction to be "decadent" and "bourgeois." She was forced to stop writing in this genre and turned to essay writing. For her novels about Lenin's life and activities she was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1972..." - wikipedia]

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