Western crime fiction goes East : the Russian Pinkerton craze 1907-1934 / by Boris Dralyuk.
This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials, traditionally maligned as "Pinkertonovshchina," and posits the "red Pinkerton" as a vital "missing link" between pre- and post-Revolutionary popular literature.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Series: | Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
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Table of Contents:
- "As many street cops as corners": displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons
- A terrible vengeance: the "avenger detective" in Russia
- Slumming litterateurs and starving students: the Pinkertons' purported authors
- The persistence of Pinkertons: reception before and after the revolution
- The red Pinkerton's rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol
- How the mess was mended: Marietta Shaginian and red pinkertonism
- The novel, the film, and the kinoroman: parody and the decline of the red Pinkerton
- The question of genre and the Pinkertons' legacy.