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[WARTIME PROSE] Chetyre rasskaza [i.e. Four Short Stories]

Kholopov, G.

Item #2774

Leningrad: Goslitizdat, 1943. 69, [3] pp. 14x11 cm. In original illustrated two-color wrappers. Very good.

First and only edition. One of 10.000 copies.

This small book includes wartime short stories written by Georgii Kholopov (1914–1990), editor-in-chief of the magazine “Zvezda” [Star] in 1939–1940 and 1957–1989.

In 1932, while working as a mechanic, Kholopov became a worker correspondent (rabkor) and wrote for factory newspapers. Then, he published his first short stories in 1934.

During World War II he served as a correspondent for the 7th Army newspaper “Vo slavu Rodiny” [For the Glory of the Motherland] from June 1941 to January 1945, and for the 9th Guards Army newspaper “V reshaiushchii boi” [Into the Decisive Battle] from January to May 1945. He saw military actions in Karelia, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. According to contemporaries, Kholopov was, by any standard, politically reliable. Like so many of his generation, he believed in the coming triumph of communism and trusted implicitly in the party’s leadership. He saw dissidents and regime critics as simply anti-Soviet — and signed collective letters against them without a second thought.

Not found in Worldcat.

Price: $500.00