Book contents
- Tolstoy in Context
- Tolstoy in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Citations, Translations, and Transliterations
- Chronology
- Part I The Man
- Part II Russian Social and Political Contexts
- Part III Literature, the Arts, and Intellectual Life
- Part IV Science and Technology
- Part V Beyond Russia
- Part VI Tolstoy’s Afterlife
- Chapter 34 Tolstoy’s Complete Works
- Chapter 35 Tolstoy in English Translation
- Chapter 36 Film Adaptations
- Chapter 37 Musical Adaptations
- Chapter 38 Biographies
- Chapter 39 Tolstoy as the Subject of Art: Painting, Film, Theater
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 34 - Tolstoy’s Complete Works
from Part VI - Tolstoy’s Afterlife
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2023
- Tolstoy in Context
- Tolstoy in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Citations, Translations, and Transliterations
- Chronology
- Part I The Man
- Part II Russian Social and Political Contexts
- Part III Literature, the Arts, and Intellectual Life
- Part IV Science and Technology
- Part V Beyond Russia
- Part VI Tolstoy’s Afterlife
- Chapter 34 Tolstoy’s Complete Works
- Chapter 35 Tolstoy in English Translation
- Chapter 36 Film Adaptations
- Chapter 37 Musical Adaptations
- Chapter 38 Biographies
- Chapter 39 Tolstoy as the Subject of Art: Painting, Film, Theater
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
Summary
A dozen editions of Tolstoy’s collected works were published while he was alive (the twelfth was being prepared when he died). His wife, Sophia Andreevna, prepared seven of these; his disciples – most notably, V.G. Chertkov – arranged for the publication of his banned writings abroad. In 1918, Chertkov secured Lenin’s affidavit for the publication of “everything that Tolstoy ever wrote.” After Lenin’s death, and especially after the 1928 centennial of Tolstoy’s birth, the corpus of the Jubilee Edition was shaped by Stalin’s state decree. First projected to exceed 100 volumes, the Jubilee Edition funneled down to 90 volumes. This chapter signposts the difficult history of the distinguished edition during the three decades of Stalinism (1928–58) that it took to publish it, while explaining its structure and key principles. Despite its ideologically marred editorial format, the Jubilee Edition – which remains the most complete and professionally executed extant edition of Tolstoy – is an extraordinary achievement. The chapter concludes by discussing the tasks of the newest 100-volume edition, started in 2000 under the auspices of the Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow, its ultimate purpose being to restore and expertly annotate all of the texts from Tolstoy’s pen.
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- Tolstoy in Context , pp. 281 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022