Use UO WorldCat to find books, magazines, articles, videos, music, and more.
Search for:
UO Local Catalog UO WorldCat Advanced Search Where is Summit?
Libraries HomeCurrently on Display: Anatolii Rybakov - An Account of Life under Stalin’s Regime
October 6, 2009
A book exhibit in the lobby of Knight Library near the Browsing Room features the international translations of Soviet Era novelist Anatolii Rybakov.
Rybakov was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine in 1911. At age 22, he was arrested and convicted of “Counter-Revolutionary Agitation and Propaganda” and sentenced to three years in prison in Siberia. By World War II, Rybakov was fighting in the Soviet Army, earning honors and medals.
Rybakov was awarded the Stalin Prize for Novels early in his writing career. However, in later years, his work was called “anti-Stalin” and his novels were banned by the Soviet government. Rybakov’s most famous book is the Children of Arbat, finally published in 1987 after nearly twenty years of a Soviet-imposed ban. Over 20 million copies of his novels have been published in 52 countries including the U.S., Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Norway.
In January 2008, the University of Oregon Libraries received a small yet significant collection of Rybakov's works from one of his heirs. The collection centers on the international translations of the Children of Arbat series. Also included are the books Rybakov used to research the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union from differing viewpoints. This research was to become the basis of his new novel, The Son, before he died in 1998.