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I. Grekova

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The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction

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Grekova is the pseudonym of the Soviet mathematician Elena Sergeevna Ventsel. The letter Y, i grec in French, is the symbol of the mathematical unknown, making her nom de plume something like Miss X. Born on 8 March 1907 in Tallinn, she studied mathematics at Leningrad University, received a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences in 1954, and has worked in applied mathematics since 1955. Her publications Probability Theory, Introduction to Operational Research, Elements of Dynamic Optimalization and Elements of Play Theory have been translated into other languages and are textbooks at Soviet universities.

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Works and Secondary Literature in English

  • ‘A Summer in the City’, Russian Literature Triquarterly, 11 (1975) 146–67, translated by L. Leighton, repr. in The Barsukov Triangle (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1984).

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  • ‘Ladies’ Hairdresser’, Russian Literature Triquarterly, 5 (1973) 223–65, translated by L. Gregg.

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  • ‘Ladies’ Hairdresser’ and ‘The Hotel Manager’, in I. Grekova, Two Stories: Russian Women, intro. Maurice Friedburg (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).

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  • ‘The Faculty’, Soviet Literature, 1979, no. 12.

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  • A Ship of Widows (London: Virago, 1984). Review by P. Meyer, ‘Growing up Soulless’, in New York Times Book Review, 8 Feb 1987, p. 35.

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  • Nazarov, Nikolai, ‘About Grekova’s Work’ (interview), Soviet Literature, 1986, no. 5, pp. 137–41.

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  1. Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    Sigrid McLaughlin (Lecturer in Modern Society and Social Thought)

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  1. Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    Sigrid McLaughlin (Lecturer in Modern Society and Social Thought) (Lecturer in Modern Society and Social Thought)

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© 1989 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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McLaughlin, S. (1989). I. Grekova. In: McLaughlin, S. (eds) The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20371-0_2

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