Sunday, January 12th at the Mark Twain Library at 3pm: Brent M. Colley is back @ The Mark Twain Library to present “Mark Twain in Russia.”
This lecture will look at the surprising story of how the love for Mark Twain in the Soviet Union bridged the cultural divide with America. Between 1918 and 1958 over 10 million of Twain’s books were sold in the USSR, and like in the US, his books were standard reading material for school children. Russians saw in his books the “true” American, a stark contrast to Soviet propaganda.
Brent compiled & shared “Mark Twain in Russia” with former MTL librarian Heather Morgan during the “Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy Symposium” at Boston University in 2010. Much of this information is not widely known and much more information has been added since its initial presentation.
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