Soviet heroic poetry in context [electronic resource] : folklore or fakelore / Margaret Ziolkowski.

Tampering with the folkloric evidence: famous and infamous European precedents
Oral composition: early Russian observations and assumptions
Engaging with the folk in pre-revolutionary Russia
The making of the noviny
The poetics and politics of the noviny
Devaluing the noviny
Late and post-Soviet folkloristic assessment of the noviny
Conclusion.