A STRIDE ACROSS A THOUSANDS YEARSProse, Poetry and Essays by Writers of the Soviet North and Far East
Progress, Moskva, 1986
edícia The Library of Russian and Soviet Essayist
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248 s., angličtina
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"... I shall never tire of repeating what has now become an obvious truth, that the peoples of the North were saved by the Great October Socialist Revolution. For indeed, these peoples were heading for disaster. One does not need to go far for an example. On the other side of the Bering Strait, in Alaska and Northern Canada, this disaster has already taken place. The well-known book by the Canadian writer Farley Mowat, The Desperate People, tells of the disappearance of the Ihalmiut tribe, one of the tribes of the great Arctic people, the Eskimos. This tribe died out only because it came up against cruel capitalist exploitation and a reality which was more destructive than the mortal breath of the Arctic cold." Yuri Rytkheu, the founder of Chukotkan Soviet literature
"The North. The white North... The boundless tundra merges with the equally boundless Arctic Ocean; the dense taiga seems to vanish into the very heart of the earth, into its countless treasure chests... The North... A whole planet, an immense expanse and such a fabulous diversity of languages, cultures and myths, and such a gigantic stride into the modern-day industrial world." Yuvan Shestalov, a Mansi writer
This collection acquaints the reader with works by writers of fourteen different ethnic groups of the Soviet North and Soviet Far East. The book contains a foreword by the first Nivkh writer, Vladimir Sanghi, and comprehensive information about the authors.
